 RFC 2992 analyzed one particular multipath routing strategy involving the assignment of flows to bins by hashing flow-related data in the packet header, which is designed to avoid these problems by sending all packets from any particular network flow down a single deterministic path, while balancing multiple flows over multiple paths in general.In 2014, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) incorporated "Equal Cost Multiple Paths (ECMP)" or IEEE standard 802.1Qbp into IEEE 802.1Q-2014 for Shortest Path Bridging.Specifying the forward and reverse paths used for unicast and multicast traffic in shortest path bridging as symmetric insuring flows on deterministic paths, resolving configuration complexities, management functionality and performance issues within original standards implementations.