TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK CONTROL METHOD AND NETWORK WITH SAID SYSTEM

摘要

A control method or protocol for the control scheme of a connection oriented network is described. Examples are the automatically switched transport networks (ASTN G.807). Such a protocol provides a set of control functions with the purpose of setting and releasing connections through the transport network. Differently from protocols based on Link State Packet such a ATM, PNNI or MPLS this protocol is based on a fully shared network database where each node keeps only its own information. This greatly reduces the required computations imposed on the single node.