Method of telecommunications demand-route multiplexing (DEROM)
US5959975A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 23, 1997 |
| Grant date | Sep 28, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 23, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04J2203/0053
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of optimizing a telecommunications network in terms of transmission and equipment cost by multiplexing lower bandwidth level telecommunications demand-routes to form higher bandwidth level bundles, by determining, for each demand-route, whether the demand-route includes a patching subroute. For each patching subroute, the method finds a best bundle of demand-routes that includes the patching subroute. The best bundle is the one that has the highest cost gradient between the sum of the costs associated with the demand-routes included in the best bundle and the total cost associated with the best bundle. The method then multiplexes the demand-routes according to the best bundles.
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