Topology specifying method and topology specifying apparatus
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsYohei Hasegawa, Masahiro Jibiki
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Abstract
A topology specifying apparatus 10 according to this invention includes, in a network having a tree type network topology, a route overlap determining section 4 configured to determine existence or non-existence of an overlap between a first route to a terminal having an unknown connection node and a second route between terminals having known connection nodes; and a topology specifying section 5 configured to determine a network topology based on the existence or non-existence of the overlap of the first route and the second route.
Claims19
1-19. (canceled)
A topology specifying method in a network having a tree type network topology, comprising:
- selecting a first route between a first terminal and a second terminal and a second route between a third terminal and a fourth terminal;
- and
- determining a network topology based on existence or non-existence of an overlap of said first route and said second route.
A topology specifying apparatus in a network having a tree type network topology, comprising:
- a route overlap determining section configured to determine existence or non-existence of an overlap between a first route between a first terminal and a second terminal and a second route between a third terminal and a fourth terminal;
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- a topology specifying section configured to determine a network topology based on the existence or non-existence of the overlap of said first route and said second route.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.