Routing patterns for avoiding congestion in networks that convert between circuit-switched and packet switched traffic

摘要

The present invention governs the order of destination nodes to which each node will send by establishing an individual circular output routing scheme for each node based on that node's unique identifier, thereby evenly distributing node traffic. The output routing scheme for each node can begin with the next incrementally higher node identifier. The output routing scheme can be built by incrementing the node identifiers until the highest node identifier is reached. The lowest node identifier follows the highest node identifier. Then, the node identifiers are again incremented until the sending node's identifier is reached. Each node can iteratively follow its own output routing scheme.