An optimized VPLS Traffic Engineering distributed routing algorithm

Najah Abu Ali, Hussein T. Mouftah, Saeed Gazor

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Abstract

Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) is a layer 2 service that emulates LAN service across a Wide Area Network (WAN). It differs from conventional L2 Virtual Private Network (VPN) by connecting customers by a multipoint network. One solution to provide the service is the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) core networks, as it supports Traffic Engineering (TE) functionality. However, the TE functionality is limited to Point to Point (P2P) paths, while to support VPLS services over MPLS, the network users expect broadcast, multicast and unicast traffic to be forwarded. The paper presents an on line distributed bandwidth guaranteed routing algorithm, which does not assume any knowledge of the expected demands of the network traffic and introduces a new definition for the critical links. The algorithm maximizes the number of admitted requests by avoiding the links which are critical for routing traffic of other source-destinations sets. Additionally, it balances the load over the network by routing traffic over the links with maximum residual bandwidth.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2005, SPECTS'05, Part of the 2005 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim'05
Pages465-472
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2005, SPECTS 2005, Part of the 2005 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim 2005 - Cherry Hill, NJ, United States
Duration: Jul 24 2005Jul 28 2005

Publication series

NameInternational Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2005, SPECTS'05, Part of the 2005 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim'05

Other

OtherInternational Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2005, SPECTS 2005, Part of the 2005 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCherry Hill, NJ
Period7/24/057/28/05

Keywords

  • MPLS
  • Point-to-multipoint paths
  • QoS routing
  • Resource managements
  • VPLS

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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