Patent Document ID: 9270426
Application ID: 13610520
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: by a network device, calculating a plurality of maximally redundant trees from an ingress network device to a plurality of egress network devices based on a network graph, in which each of the plurality of maximally redundant trees comprises a spanning tree to the plurality of egress network devices rooted at the ingress network device, wherein each of the maximally redundant trees is calculated to comprise a point to multipoint (P2MP) path from the ingress network device to the plurality of egress network devices that is as disjoint as possible from a respective P2MP path from the ingress network device to the plurality of egress network devices for each other one of the plurality of maximally redundant trees, and wherein the maximally redundant trees are calculated such that each link along each of the plurality of maximally redundant trees satisfies a specified traffic-engineering constraint; in response to determining, by the network device, that the plurality of maximally redundant trees include at least one node whose removal partitions a network represented by the network graph: modifying, by the network device, the specified traffic-engineering constraint to have a less restrictive value; modifying the network graph to add links to the network graph that satisfy the modified traffic-engineering constraint to obtain a modified network graph; and re-calculating, by the network device, at least a portion of the plurality of maximally redundant trees based on the modified network graph to obtain a plurality of maximally redundant trees in which at least two nodes must be removed before the network is partitioned; and with the ingress network device, establishing a plurality of P2MP label switched paths (LSPs) from the ingress network device to the plurality of egress network devices along each of the plurality of maximally redundant trees in which at least two nodes must be removed before the network is partitioned, wherein each of the P2MP LSPs corresponds to a different one of the plurality of maximally redundant trees in which at least two nodes must be removed before the network is partitioned.