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Optimized bandwidth allocation for guaranteed bandwidth services

US8320237B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Michael Frantz · Bad Aibling, DE
Joao Filipe · Almere, NL
Stefan Klein · Meitingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 21, 2006
Grant date	Nov 27, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 12, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L47/829
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for minimizing bandwidth allocation for alternative routes within a network provides a management system for managing routes of services, provides a plurality of guaranteed bandwidth (GWB) services, assigns to each GBW-service a traffic class (TC), and calculates for each GBW-service of a protected TC an active route and an alternative route. The active route is a planned route in case of absence of a respective network failure and the alternative route is the route which guarantees that, in case of a network failure with respect to the active route, the GBW-service is protected. Further, a first optimized protection mode is provided to be assigned to all the GBW-services belonging to a given protected TC. The first optimized protection mode has a first optimization step including reserving bandwidth for each GBW-service only once for each network resource employed by the active and/or the alternative route of each GBW-service.

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