The present invention, which may be embodied in or carried out by various components of a
data communications network, provides an improved criterion for tearing down network …

The invention relates to a method of fault monitoring in a fault monitoring entity of a network
node of a network having at least a first connection-oriented network layer, having first …

A method of constructing a repair path around a non-available component in a data
communications network is described. The data communications network has, as …

A method is disclosed for determining a repair strategy for a data communication network.
The data communication network has as components nodes and links. The method …

A method of advertising repair capability in a network repair scheme using network repair
addresses for repairing around a repairable network component in a data communications …

The present invention relates to a method and a node for controlling the forwarding quality in
a data network. The data network comprising a measurement manager comprising means …

In a telecommunications network, broken connections can be detected and located through
a next hop loopback technique. The next hop loopback technique involves the generation …

In a telecommunications network provisioned with a path based distributed restoration
algorithm, upon the detection of a failure in a link, each of the custodial nodes of the failed …

Following failure of part of the network, a restoration process is carried out. A restoration
route around the failed part is selected, and at least a portion of the capacity of links along …

A method of constructing a repair path around a non-available component in a data
communications network having, as components, nodes having a network address and links …