Network reliability assessment

Patent · Tue Jun 20 04:00:00 EDT 2017

OSTI ID:1532000

Smith, Rhett; Berner, Marc Ryan; Dearien, Jason A.; Powers, Josh

The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for assessing reliability of communication links in a software defined network (SDN). In one embodiment, a system may include an SDN architecture subsystem configured to generate SDN architecture information and a bandwidth subsystem configured to generate bandwidth information. A latency subsystem may receive the bandwidth information from the bandwidth subsystem and may be configured to generate latency information using the bandwidth information. A failover subsystem may receive the SDN architecture information, the bandwidth information, and the latency information and generate a failover assessment and a failover route for the communication link. A reliability assessment subsystem may receive the SDN architecture information, the bandwidth information, and the latency information, and the failover assessment and generate a reliability assessment. A traffic routing subsystem may receive the reliability assessment and route data traffic to the failover route based on the reliability assessment.

• Research Organization: Schwetizer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: OE0000678
• Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Pullman, WA)
• Patent Number(s): 9,686,125
• Application Number: 14/803,661
• OSTI ID: 1532000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English