Providing QoS guarantees by load balancing in MPLS networks

Author

Pääkkönen, Mikko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. Inf. Technol., Jyvaskyla Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

939

Lastpage

943

Abstract

The capability of multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) of explicit routing as well as of transferring the traffic flows on several, possible equal cost, paths allows load balancing scheme. Exploiting this capability of MPLS, a revenue aware load balancing mechanism is proposed in this paper. The main goal of this proposal is to maximize total network revenue so that quality of service (QoS) requirements of different service classes are fulfilled. The performance of the load balancing algorithm is evaluated by using NS-2 simulator. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the operation of the load balancing algorithm. In addition, the performance of proposed algorithm is compared with the performance of representative dynamic load distribution approaches

Keywords

Internet; multiprotocol label switching; quality of service; resource allocation; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; Internet; MPLS; NS-2 simulator; QoS routing; load balancing scheme; multiprotocol label switching; quality of service; traffic engineering; Delay; Information technology; Intelligent networks; Load management; Multiprotocol label switching; Pricing; Quality of service; Routing protocols; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Communication Technology, 2005, ICACT 2005. The 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Phoenix Park

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICACT.2005.246112

Filename

1462936