Hi Aijun,

> Can we call such features as “undetermined ”?
>

Sure ... even with controllers in place nothing is 100% deterministic here.
Simply because you can only try to predict the future of your transit
traffic demands.

See controller will be doing the very same computation. However the
difference when using a controller - it will always have a full picture of
the resources. With distributed reoptimization you need to wait for your
IGP reflooding or RSVP-PATH failures  to know that some capacity has been
already "reserved" by some other node.

So the way I look at this is that distributed CSPF and controller based may
eventually lead to pretty much the same final state .. it is just in the
controller case you will achieve it faster as it immediately has full view
of the entire network and its resources.


> And, following your example, the challenge is, how to select the subset of
> links that be put down, if many of their PCPPS are same?
>

You simply exclude all of them from CSPF and see during computation if
what's left still meets the TE policies. No great magic there.

Thx,
R.



> Aijun Wang
> China Telecom
>
> On Sep 10, 2026, at 19:48, Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Aijun,
>
> The entire idea of distributed TE is no coordination between headends and
> it still works.
>
> Imagine a constraint - link failed in the core.
>
> All headends see it and recomputre their LSPs such that the given link is
> not considered in CSPF.
>
> Here we are dealing with similar constraint  ... ie. a hint flooded to
> headends to try to avoid the links which are to be put to sleep.
>
> Yes in both examples there will be contention for BW on the remaining
> links ... yes in both cases RSVP PATH may fail to setup LSP, but this is
> how distributed TE works since day one. That is btw why in TE we have quite
> a lot of control to prioritize LSP between each other, we have preemption
> etc ...
>
> But eventually LSPs get moved to those links in the topology which are not
> going to be put to sleep. If there is no free capacity and if operator does
> not agree to put a link to sleep even with some remaining LSPs still
> traversing it the link will be kept up. Authors call it a feature and I
> will agree with them on this.
>
> Best,
> R.
>
>
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