A case study on evaluating the benefits of MPLS traffic engineering through constraint-based routing and network controls

Author

Srivastava, S. ; Krithikaivasan, B. ; Venkatachalam, V. ; Beard, C. ; Medhi, D. ; van de Liefvoort, A. ; Alanqar, W. ; Nagarajan, A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Interdisciplinary Comput. & Eng., Missouri Univ., Kansas City, MO, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

2437

Abstract

In this paper, we attempt to understand the benefits of MPLS traffic engineering through a case study. Specifically, we do a comparative study of MPLS traffic engineering in the presence of dynamic constraint-based routing compared to destination-based routing. For this case study, we use a model derived from an actual service provider network. Different control schemes that can be deployable for MPLS traffic engineering are also considered. This case study shows that services can indeed obtain benefits from constraint-based routing and traffic engineering controls.

Keywords

Internet; telecommunication control; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication switching; telecommunication traffic; Internet; MPLS traffic engineering; constraint-based routing; control schemes; destination-based routing; dynamic constraint-based routing; multi-protocol label switching; network controls; Bandwidth; Cities and towns; Communication system traffic control; Computer aided software engineering; Internet; Multiprotocol label switching; Network topology; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2002. ICC 2002. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7400-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2002.997281

Filename

997281