Route selection method
US6259673A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 3, 1998 |
| Grant date | Jul 10, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 3, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2012/5638
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
If an error range is specified with regard to the cost beforehand, a route satisfying all of a plurality of QoS conditions at a low cost and having a cost in the error range is selected as an optimum route. Such a route selection method is provided. At step S1, a plurality of QoS conditions to be satisfied are set. At step S2, an approximation error .epsilon. is input. At step S3, a range of a cost for searching for an optimum route is tentatively set. At step S4, an optimum solution cost approximation procedure is executed. At step S5, it is determined whether the cost searching range has been sufficiently narrowed. If the narrowed cost searching range is still too wide, then the processing returns to the step S4 and the optimum solution cost approximation procedure is repeated. If the cost searching range has already been narrowed, an optimum solution deriving procedure is executed at step S6.
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