HIGH SPEED DISSEMINATION OF FAILURE INFORMATION IN MESH NETWORKS

摘要

A method for high speed dissemination of information about faults in spans that interconnect nodes in a telecommunication mesh network, the method comprises creating a Failure Updating channel (FU channel) in the network and circulating Failure Updating messages (FU messages) via the FU channel between the network nodes, wherein each of the FU messages carries information about all spans in the network by presenting status indications of the spans in respective information slots of the FU message.