Title :
Delivering Multicast Services over MPLS Infrastructure
Author :
Alawieh, Bassel ; Mouftah, Hussein
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa
Abstract :
The exponential growth in Internet technology has challenged service providers to provide multicast based services like broadcast TV, video on demand and streaming music services over the broadband access infrastructure to their end clients. To meet these requirements, service providers are making use of multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) to better provision and support these bandwidth demanding applications for their end clients. This article presents a performance analysis for the transport of multicast services across MPLS infrastructure networks. Multicast flows are carried using virtual private LAN services (VPLS) as transport media. We further investigate the reliability of multicasting over VPLS and compare it with PIM interms of jitter and delay experimentally using our optical networks research lab (ONRL) testbed.
Keywords :
Internet; broadband networks; local area networks; media streaming; multicast protocols; multiprotocol label switching; optical fibre networks; transport protocols; video on demand; virtual private networks; Internet protocol; MPLS infrastructure network; broadband access infrastructure; broadcast TV; multicast service delivery; multiprotocol label switching; music service streaming; optical network research lab testbed; performance analysis; video on demand; virtual private LAN service; Bandwidth; Broadcast technology; Local area networks; Multimedia communication; Multiprotocol label switching; Performance analysis; Streaming media; TV broadcasting; Video on demand; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 2007. ISCC 2007. 12th IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Aveiro
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1520-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1346
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.2007.4381476
