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A performance study of QoS using traffic engineering over MPLS

AuthorNguyen Minh Tung
Call NumberAIT RSPR no.TC-05-18
Subject(s)Telecommunication--Traffic

NoteA research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies
PublisherAsian Institute of Technology
Series StatementResearch studies project report ; no. TC-05-18
AbstractTraffic Engineering is the process where data is routed through the network according to a management view of the availability of resources and expected traffic. The challenge of traffic engineering is how to make the most effective use of the available bandwidth in a large Internet Protocol (IP) backbone network so that the best performance characteristics from the same IP networks are achieved even in the event of congestion. Traffic Engineering may be either under the control of manual operators or driven by automated processes reacting to information fed back through routing protocols. Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a recent network technology that addresses the traffic engineering issue by setting up explicit paths through the network using Constraint-Based Routed Label Distribution Protocol (CR-LDP) and supports Quality of Service (QoS). With CR-LDP, the label switching path (LSP) can be established based on the traffic's constraints, and packets are label-switched onto the LSPs to reach their destinations. There are two innovative ideas in CR-LDP: The first of the innovative idea in CRLDP is right in the capability of LSP preemption. LSP preemption allows a high-priority traffic flow to preempt the low-priority traffic flow when there is not enough bandwidth for conveying the high-priority flow. The second of innovative idea in Constraint-based Routing is made the traffic engineering process automatic. The routing algorithm chooses a path able to optimize one or more metrics such as: bandwidth, delay, monetary cost, and jitter. Generally, a metric based on the hop count and on the bandwidth is used. In this research study, Traffic Engineering is considered in IP network over MPLS. With the MPLS domain, the Explicit Routing with traffic priority and without traffic priority; the LSP preemption and capability to establish the LSP automatically have been simulated. We evaluate the performance of network utilization in term of the throughput, percentage packet loss as well as the bandwidth utilization.
Year2005
Corresponding Series Added EntryAsian Institute of Technology. Research studies project report ; no. TC-05-18
TypeResearch Study Project Report (RSPR)
SchoolSchool of Advanced Technologies (SAT)
DepartmentDepartment of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT)
Academic Program/FoSTelecommunications (TC)
Chairperson(s)Teerapat Sanguankotchakorn;
Examination Committee(s)Erke, Tapio J.;Poompat Saengudomlert;
Scholarship Donor(s)Civil Aviation Training Center ofVietNam;
DegreeResearch report (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2005


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