Partitioning of a communications network
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorsJukka Nurminen, Harri Korpela
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Abstract
This invention relates to the partitioning of a communications network. The idea of the invention is to divide the logical connections of a communication network into several partitions, each partition representing a certain type of transmission traffic, such as access or regional traffic. The partitioning is based on simple criteria: capacity of an endpoint of a logical connection, representing a node; distance between a pair of endpoints, and traffic category representing the stability of the traffic. By using the partitioning, it is possible to separate a certain type of traffic (a certain type of logical connections) from the whole traffic picture of the network
Claims8
A network planning method for partitioning a communication network, characterized in that the method comprises the steps of:
- describing logical connections in the network in a domain comprising at least two dimensions, the first dimension being for describing the capacity of endpoints of said logical connections, and the second dimension being for describing the re-routing needs of said logical connections,
- selecting a value range for each of the dimensions,
- searching for logical connections which are within the selected value ranges in the domain, and
- forming a primary partition from the logical connections found.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.