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Assigning telecommunications nodes to community of interest clusters

  • US 8,495,201 B2
  • Filed: 08/21/2012
  • Issued: 07/23/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for assigning network nodes to community of interest clusters, the method comprising:

  • selecting, with a processor, two seed points in a network, each seed point representing a cluster, wherein the two seed points are selected so that a distance between the two seed points is as far apart as possible, via a network path selected from a plurality of network paths;

    adding, with the processor, a node to a particular cluster based on a distance between the node and one of the two seed points representing the particular cluster;

    computing, with the processor, a clustering metric representative of an affinity that each of a plurality of nodes adjacent to the particular cluster has for the particular cluster, the clustering metric based on a distance between the plurality of nodes and the one of the two seed points; and

    adding, with the processor, one of the plurality of nodes to the particular cluster when the clustering metric for the one of the plurality of nodes exceeds a predetermined value.

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