Patent ID: 11902175
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method for allocating bandwidth to nodes in a network, comprising:
receiving a request from a source node of the nodes to communicate with a destination node;
selecting a path between the source node and the destination node;
for a link of the links in the selected path, performing:
determining a number of common paths that include the link, wherein the common paths include the selected path; and
determining a per path allocated bandwidth for the link as a function of a bandwidth of the link and number of common paths that share the link;

setting allocated bandwidth for the selected path to a minimum of per path allocated bandwidths for the links in the selected path; and
transmitting information on the selected path and the allocated bandwidth to the source node to use to communicate with the destination node.