IP multicast shortcut over ATM: a winner combination

Author

Dumortier, Philip ; Ooms, Dirk ; Livens, Wim ; Girard, Isabelle ; Ramalho, Michael

Author_Institution

Corp. Res. Center, Alcatel Alsthom, Antwerp, Belgium

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

6/20/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

652

Abstract

The philosophy of full IP control over ATM equipment has been advocated by the Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), as a fairly simple but promising approach to boost Internet throughput. Existing IP routing protocols run on ATM switches to do topology discovery and route calculation, but packet forwarding is done by switching encapsulated IP packets directly in ATM, i.e. by shortcutting the IP forwarding engine. This paper evaluates the potential of applying this model to IP multicast, based on the experience gained from a lab prototype that demonstrates the concept of IP multicast shortcut over ATM

Keywords

Internet; asynchronous transfer mode; multicast communication; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; ATM equipment; ATM switches; IETF; IP control; IP forwarding engine; IP multicast shortcut; IP routing protocols; Internet Engineering Task Force; Internet throughput; MPLS working group; Multi-Protocol Label Switching; encapsulated IP packets; lab prototype; packet forwarding; route calculation; topology discovery; Asynchronous transfer mode; Force control; Internet; Multiprotocol label switching; Packet switching; Routing protocols; Search engines; Switches; Throughput; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1998. GLOBECOM 1998. The Bridge to Global Integration. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4984-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1998.775804

Filename

775804