US Patent Issued to Ciena on Feb. 3 for "Traffic matrix estimation with the QSP-MLE model and recursive improvement" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,725, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Traffic matrix estimation with the QSP-MLE model and recursive improvement" was invented by Maryam Amiri (Ottawa), John Wade Cherrington (Salt Spring Island, Canada) and Petar Djukic (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include receiving network data from a network; estimating large flows from the network data utilizing a first statistical approach; responsive to the network being large flow dominant, recursively estimating flows in the network utilizing the first statistical approach until an exit condition is reached; and combining the recursiv...