Patent ID: 7362708

Claim:
A traffic engineering module of a telecommunication device in a telecommunication network, said traffic engineering means being enabled to determine a traffic distribution being a traffic share (TSi) for each path (Pi) of a set of paths (P 1 , P 2 , P 3 ) between a source and a destination of said telecommunication network, said traffic distribution being adjusted on at least one of the following events: when a timer expires or when a load-losses information related to critically-loaded link has been received, where said traffic engineering module comprising: first determining means enabled to determine for each said path (Pi) an equivalent load (EquivLoad path i ) as a function of received load information and received losses information of said path (Pi), and to provide thereby a set of equivalent loads ((EquivLoad path 1 ), (EquivLoad path 2 ); . . . ; (EquivLoad path n )); second determining means coupled to said first determining means being enabled to determine a maximum equivalent load (MaxEquivLoad) out of said set of equivalent loads ((EquivLoad path 1 ), (EquivLoad path 2 ); . . . ; (EquivLoad path n )); and third determining means enabled to determine for each said path (Pi) an increase in traffic share (Tsilnc) proportional to a difference between said maximum equivalent load (MaxEquivLoad) and said equivalent load (EquivLoad path i ) of said path (Pi).