Table of Contents
Quality of Service and Traffic Engineering using Multiprotocol Label Switching
Part 1: MPLS Overview
Routing vs Switching
Routing vs Switching over ATM
High-Speed Backbone Alternatives
Label Switching
MPLS
MPLS Terminology
Label Stacks
Label Stack Examples
Label Stack Entry Format
Label Assignment
Label Distribution Protocol
LDP Messages
LDP TLVs
Independent vs Ordered Control
MPLS Over ATM
Stream Merging
Summary of Part 1: MPLS
Part 2: Traffic Engineering
Traffic Engineering Objectives
Traffic Engineering Components
Traffic Engineering Components
MPLS Mechanisms for TE
Traffic Trunks
Trunks vs LSPs
Flows, Trunks, LSPs, and Links
Traffic Trunks
Trunk Attributes
Token Bucket vs Leaky Bucket
Token and Leaky Bucket
Traffic Granularity
CR-LDP
CR-LSP Setup
Traffic Parameters
Explicit Route
Path Selection
Resource Attributes
Resource Class Affinity
Adaptivity and Resilience
Priority and Preemption
Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF
Traffic Engineering Extensions to IS-IS
Summary of Part 2: Traffic Engg
A Simulation Analysis of Traffic Engineering
Simulation Model
Simulation Scenarios
Case 1: No Trunks, No MPLS
Two trunks w UDP + TCP Mixed
3 Trunks w Isolated TCP, UDP
Non End-to-End Trunks
Future Work
Summary of Part 3: TE Analysis
Part 4: Other QoS Approaches and MPLS Interoperability
ATM Service Categories
ATM QoS: Issues
Integrated Services
RSVP
Problems with IntServ/RSVP
MPLS-IntServ Interoperability
Differentiated Services
DiffServ Concepts
Per-hop Behaviors
Expedited Forwarding
Assured Forwarding
Problems with DiffServ
MPLS-DiffServ Interoperability
IEEE 802.1D Model
MPLS-802.1D Interoperability
End-to-end View
QoS Debate Issues
Comparison of QoS Approaches
Summary of Part 4
References
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