Evaluation of a tunnel set-up mechanism in QoS-aware Ethernet access networks

Author

De Greve, Filip ; Van Quickenborne, F. ; Van Heuven, Pim ; De Turck, Filip ; Vermeulen, Brecht ; Van Den Berghe, Steven ; Moerman, Ingrid ; Demeester, Piet ; Van den Bosch, Sven ; Janssens, Nico ; Bouchat, C. ; Van Vlerken, Bert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Belgium

fYear

2004

fDate

25-28 April 2004

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

252

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a novel tunnel set-up mechanism for Ethernet access networks. The establishment of VLAN-based tunnels is realised with a "scoped refresh" extension of the GVRP standard. For the distribution of QoS-related reservation parameters, a new GARP-based protocol (G2RP) is developed with a closed loop design for updating the reservation parameters and hop-by-hop admission control. Both protocols are implemented on a Linux test bed using the click modular router. Extensive performance evaluations were performed. The results are compared with Linux implementations of the other tunnel set-up mechanisms.

Keywords

access protocols; local area networks; quality of service; subscriber loops; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network routing; QoS-aware Ethernet access networks; click modular router; hop-by-hop admission control; protocols; quality of service; reservation parameters; tunnel set-up mechanism; virtual local area networks; Access protocols; Admission control; Databases; Ethernet networks; Intelligent networks; Linux; Multicast protocols; Performance evaluation; Switches; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, 2004. LANMAN 2004. The 13th IEEE Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8551-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LANMAN.2004.1338440

Filename

1338440