Field of the Invention The present invention relates generally to communications networks having nodes which undergo dynamically changing topology, ...

[0005] Metro Ethernet networks are inherently dynamic in nature. Dynamic networks have a continuously changing topology. A change in topology can occur due ...

If a change is made to the number of results expected for a given problem, it is now impossible to alter the topology dynamically, as an alteration would ...

Service providers may be required to continuously change the network capacity due .... 402 that analyzes the dynamically changing topology of the Metro Eth7 ...

[0008] Hence, it would be desirable to provide a wireless network that employs a dynamically changing topology to accommodate user mobility and that is also ...

The 50 user land topology manager is responsible for calculating component attributes or properties dynamically, for setting default values component ...

The process is flexible in relation to a dynamically changing 25 topology and the costs of portions of the network topology by including costing as an ...

[0031] In one preferred embodiment an animation of the dynamically changing topologies can be accomplished by successively displaying each topology in the ...