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Network routing and congestion control

  • US 7,349,343 B2
  • Filed: 03/29/2001
  • Issued: 03/25/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Routing control apparatus for use in a communications network comprising nodes connected to each other directly and indirectly by links, the nodes being provided with routing tables for routing traffic towards respectively corresponding destination nodes via intermediate nodes, the routing control apparatus comprising in respect of a network node:

  • (i) a routing table for use in routing traffic transmitted by the node;

    (ii) routing table updating means;

    (iii) routing message receiving and processing means for receiving routing-related messages transmitted by other nodes that may be destination nodes for future traffic and for identifying one or more intermediate nodes by which the routing messages have been transmitted; and

    (iv) routing means to output traffic to one or more other network nodes,wherein the routing table updating means is adapted to update entries for intermediate nodes in the table in accordance with receipt of routing messages from the destination nodes.

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