CAPACITY-AWARE LOCAL REPAIR OF TUNNELS IN WIDE AREA NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20240388469A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-21

    申请号:US18320944

    申请日:2023-05-19

    Abstract: Solutions are disclosed that enable capacity-aware local repair of tunnels in packet switched wide area networks (WANs). Traffic engineering agents on the routers are programmed to create the tunnels and include sets of primary and alternate tunnels sharing the same source and destination. A tunnel source router is provided a traffic split for allocating incoming traffic to its primary and alternate tunnels for when the primary tunnel is operating at or near full capacity operation, and another traffic split that shifts at least some traffic from the primary tunnel to the alternate tunnel, when the primary tunnel's capacity drops below a threshold. A tunnel may lose capacity for commonly-occurring reasons, such as a disturbance to cabling and faults in optical transceivers. Traffic engineering agents along the tunnel report capacity to the tunnel source router, permitting the network to respond to capacity changes more rapidly than waiting for network tunnel reconfiguration.

    DIFFERENTIATED ADMISSION CONTROL FOR SINGULAR FLOW WITH BIFURCATED PRIORITIES

    公开(公告)号:US20240397493A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-28

    申请号:US18322556

    申请日:2023-05-23

    Abstract: Solutions are disclosed that enable differentiated admission control for singular flows with bifurcated priorities in a wide area network (WAN). Examples include receiving a bandwidth request for each of a plurality of data flows, each request indicating a primary bandwidth request portion and a deferrable bandwidth request portion; aggregating the bandwidth requests for the plurality of data flows into an aggregate bandwidth request, the aggregate bandwidth request indicating a primary aggregate bandwidth request portion and a deferrable aggregate bandwidth request portion; determining, based on at least the aggregate bandwidth request, a granted primary aggregate bandwidth and a granted deferrable aggregate bandwidth; and based on at least the granted primary aggregate bandwidth and the granted deferrable aggregate bandwidth, allocating, for each bandwidth request for the plurality of data flows, a granted primary bandwidth and a granted deferrable bandwidth.

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