MPLS-TE Routing: Adopting a Generic Architecture and Evaluating Various Implementation Approaches

Imène Chaieb (1) , Jean-Louis Le Roux (1) , Bernard Cousin (2)

1 FT R&D - France Télécom Recherche & Développement
2 ARMOR - Architectures and network models

Various Multi-Protocol Label Switching-Traffic Engineering (MPLS-TE) Routing Systems have been proposed in the literature to achieve optimization of resources utilization, Quality-of-Service (QoS) and Fast Recovery. This paper proposes a generic architecture for MPLS-TE Routing Systems, which aims to ease the classification and the analysis of these systems. Then this paper defines a set of MPLS-TE classification criteria. The combination of these criteria leads to the identification of main families of MPLS-TE Routing Systems which are finally compared and qualitatively evaluated according to a set of metrics.

Mots clés: Multi-Protocol Label Switching; MPLS; Traffic Engineering; MPLS-TE; Fast Routing; Quality-of-Service; QoS; Fast Recovery

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Imène Chaieb, Jean-Louis Le Roux, Bernard Cousin. MPLS-TE Routing: Adopting a Generic Architecture and Evaluating Various Implementation Approaches. Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2006), Dec 2007, Melbourne, Australia. pp.100-105. ⟨hal-00180771⟩