Patent ID: 11894872
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. An apparatus comprising:
a network interface configured to communicate with one or more computing device; and
a processor coupled to the network interface, the processor configured to:
obtain via the network interface, a plurality of attributes characterizing an optical network, the optical network comprising a plurality of network nodes including the apparatus;
calculate a plurality of cost values for sending data from the apparatus to one or more next hop network nodes that are connected to the apparatus, wherein a particular cost value among the plurality of cost values is associated with a probability of success of sending the data to a particular next hop network node among the one or more next hop network nodes based on a particular permutation of the plurality of attributes characterizing the optical network;
generate a routing table correlating a plurality of permutations of the attributes with each next hop network node based on the plurality of cost values; and
detect at least one new network node in the optical network from a new permutation of the attributes characterizing the optical network.