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technology. e traffic engineering function can calculate recovery
paths in later stages.
In Ref. [6], they proposed to relax the separation of control
operations to include connectivity monitoring OAM in the switch
to overcome the scalability limitations of centralized connectivity
monitoring. e connectivity monitoring must operate in a proactive
manner to ensure fast detection of any impairment along the path.
e source end of the monitored flow will be the entry point of a
transport tunnel. It periodically emits probe packets and interleaves
them into the data flow running along that path. e destination end
extracts the probe packets from the data flow. If the destination end
stops ...