Flood signaling architecture and process for provisioning communication paths
First Claim
1. A method for establisning a communications path between a source network element (NE) and a destination NE, comprising:
- (a) defining flooding scope stages including respective groups of NEs for use in establishing said communications path, each flooding scope stage including NEs providing at least one potential path between said source NE and said destination NE, said flooding scope stages comprising a first group of NEs and a second group of NEs having at least one NE not associated with the first group of NEs;
(b) contemporaneously determining available resources within each of the NEs of said first group of NEs;
(c) contemporaneously reserving those available resources appropriate to establish said communications path;
(d) selecting reserved resources sufficient to establish said communications path;
(e) releasing those reserved resources not selected; and
(f) in the absence of available resources sufficient to establish said communications path, repeating steps (b)-(e) using the second group of NEs.
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Abstract
A method for establishing a communications path between a source node and destination node. The method includes defining a first group of network elements (NEs) suitable for use in the communications path, contemporaneously determining available resources within each of the NEs of the first group of NEs, and contemporaneously reserving those available resources appropriate to establish the communications path. The reserved resources sufficient to establish the communications path are selected, while those reserved resources not selected are released. In the absence of available resources sufficient to establish the communications path, the method is repeated using a second group of NEs suitable for establishing the communications path.
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1. A method for establisning a communications path between a source network element (NE) and a destination NE, comprising:
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(a) defining flooding scope stages including respective groups of NEs for use in establishing said communications path, each flooding scope stage including NEs providing at least one potential path between said source NE and said destination NE, said flooding scope stages comprising a first group of NEs and a second group of NEs having at least one NE not associated with the first group of NEs; (b) contemporaneously determining available resources within each of the NEs of said first group of NEs; (c) contemporaneously reserving those available resources appropriate to establish said communications path; (d) selecting reserved resources sufficient to establish said communications path; (e) releasing those reserved resources not selected; and (f) in the absence of available resources sufficient to establish said communications path, repeating steps (b)-(e) using the second group of NEs. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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8. The method of step 1, wherein said determining step (b) comprises:
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sending request messages from a PM at a source node to resource managers (RM) at each network element within the first group of NEs; and returning response messages from each said RM to said PM. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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