Method for calculating spectrum timing channel, path calculating element and node

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9819438-B2
Application number	US-201314412247-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 24, 2013
Priority date	Jul 6, 2012
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

A method for computing a frequency slot channel, a path computation element and a node are disclosed. The method includes: when a frequency slot channel needs to be established, an ingress node sending to a path computation element a path computation request message which carries spectrum resource information needed for establishing the frequency slot channel; according to the received spectrum resource information sent by the ingress node, the path computation element computing out the frequency slot channel by combining of topology information of a network and spectrum resource information of each node in the network. The path computation element includes a receiving module and a computing module. When working as an ingress node in a process of establishing a frequency slot channel, the node includes a message construction module and a sending module.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for computing a frequency slot channel, comprising:
when a frequency slot channel needs to be established, an ingress node sending to a path computation element a path computation request message which carries spectrum resource information comprising spectrum width in units of GHz required by the ingress node to establish a frequency slot channel; and
the path computation element computing out the frequency slot channel by combining the spectrum resource information required by the ingress node, topology information of a network and spectrum resource information of each node in the network;
wherein:
in the path computation request message, the spectrum resource information needed for establishing the frequency slot channel is carried via a spectrum width object; wherein, the spectrum width object comprises:
a field of Object-Class, used for identifying a path computation element protocol (PCEP) object type, and its specific numerical value is selected from any one of values which are not currently assigned;
a field of Object Type,
when Object Type=1, it indicates the requested spectrum width;
when Object Type=2, it indicates requesting to reselect a better path;
a field of m: its value is used for indicating the spectrum width of the requested frequency slot channel, and the requested spectrum width is a product of 12.5 GHz and m.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein, the method further comprises:
after computing the frequency slot channel, the path computation element notifying the ingress node of information of the frequency slot channel.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein, the step of the path computation element notifying the ingress node of the information of the frequency slot channel comprises:
the path computation element sending the ingress node a path computation reply message which carries the information of the frequency slot channel.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
information of the frequency slot channel comprises: routing information of the frequency slot channel and spectrum resource information used for path establishment.

5. A path computation element, comprising a receiving module and a computing module, wherein:
the receiving module is configured to: receive a path computation request message sent by an ingress node, wherein, the path computation request message carries spectrum resource information comprising spectrum width in units of GHz required by the ingress node to establish a frequency slot channel; and
the computing module is configured to: compute the frequency slot channel by combining the spectrum resource information required by the ingress node, topology information of a network and spectrum resource information of each node in the network;
wherein:
in the path computation request message, the spectrum resource information needed for establishing the frequency slot channel is carried via a spectrum width object; wherein, the spectrum width object comprises:
a field of Object-Class, used for identifying a path computation element protocol (PCEP) object type, and its specific numerical value is selected from any one of values which are not currently assigned;
a field of Object Type,
when Object Type=1, it indicates the requested spectrum width;
when Object Type=2, it indicates requesting to reselect a better path;
a field of m: its value is used for indicating the spectrum width of the requested frequency slot channel, and the requested spectrum width is a product of 12.5 GHz and m.

6. The path computation element of claim 5 , further comprising a sending module, wherein:
the sending module is configured to: notify the ingress node of information of the frequency slot channel after the computing module computes out the frequency slot channel.

7. The path computation element of claim 6 , wherein, the sending module is configured to notify the ingress node of the information of the frequency slot channel in the following manner:
the sending module sending to the ingress node a path computation reply message which carries the information of the frequency slot channel.

8. The path computation element of claim 5 , wherein:
information of the frequency slot channel comprises: routing information of the path and spectrum resource information used for path establishment.

9. A node, comprising a message construction module and a sending module when working as an ingress node in a process of establishing a frequency slot channel, wherein:
the message construction module is configured to: when a frequency slot channel needs to be established, construct a path computation request message which carries spectrum resource information comprising spectrum width in units of GHz required by the ingress node to establish a frequency slot channel; and
the sending module is configured to: send the path computation request message constructed by the message construction module to a path computation element, so that the path computation element computes the frequency slot channel by considering the spectrum resource information required by the ingress node;
wherein:
in the path computation request message, the spectrum resource information needed for establishing the frequency slot channel is carried via a spectrum width object; wherein, the spectrum width object comprises:
a field of Object-Class, used for identifying a path computation element protocol (PCEP) object type, and its specific numerical value is selected from any one of values which are not currently assigned;
a field of Object Type,
when Object Type=1, it indicates the requested spectrum width;
when Object Type=2, it indicates requesting to reselect a better path;
a field of m: its value is used for indicating the spectrum width of the requested frequency slot channel, and the requested spectrum width is a product of 12.5 GHz and m.

10. The method of claim 2 , wherein:
the information of the frequency slot channel comprises: routing information of the frequency slot channel and spectrum resource information used for path establishment.

11. The method of claim 3 , wherein:
the information of the frequency slot channel comprises: routing information of the frequency slot channel and spectrum resource information used for path establishment.

12. The path computation element of claim 6 , wherein:
the information of the frequency slot channel comprises: routing information of the path and spectrum resource information used for path establishment.

13. The path computation element of claim 7 , wherein:
the information of the frequency slot channel comprises: routing information of the path and spectrum resource information used for path establishment.

Assignees

• Xian Zhongxing New Software Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Qilei
• Zhang Daowei

Classifications

• H04L45/02

  Topology update or discovery · CPC title

• H04Q2011/009

  Topology aspects · CPC title

• H04L45/42 Primary

  Centralised routing · CPC title

• H04L45/62

  Wavelength based (optical switching H04Q11/0062) · CPC title

• H04Q2011/0086

  Network resource allocation, dimensioning or optimisation · CPC title