| 摘要 |
A method of re-routing data in a data network (500) comprises the steps of receiving one or more data packets and identifying (515) a congested route (235) from a plurality of selectable routes at a router (410) in the data network based substantially on queue length per route. The router selects (520), in response to the identification, an alternative, preferably less-congested, route (255) and re-routes (525) the one or more data packets to the alternative route. The router may additonally segment the re-routed data and direct the re-routed data to edge routers in preference to core routers. In this manner, in a multi-route data network, a data packet may be delivered to a destination node more efficiently than in known networks. Indeed, the data packet(s) will encounter fewer congested routes when the respective routers have been adapted in accordance with the aforementioned inventive concepts.
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