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Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS
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Network Working Group D. Awduche
Request for Comments: 2702 J. Malcolm
Category: Informational J. Agogbua
M. O'Dell
J. McManus
UUNET (MCI Worldcom)
September 1999
Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document presents a set of requirements for Traffic Engineering
over Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). It identifies the
functional capabilities required to implement policies that
facilitate efficient and reliable network operations in an MPLS
domain. These capabilities can be used to optimize the utilization of
network resources and to enhance traffic oriented performance
characteristics.
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction ............................................. 2
1.1 Terminology .............................................. 3
1.2 Document Organization .................................... 3
2.0 Traffic Engineering ...................................... 4
2.1 Traffic Engineering Performance Objectives ............... 4
2.2 Traffic and Resource Control ............................. 6
2.3 Limitations of Current IGP Control Mechanisms ............ 6
3.0 MPLS and Traffic Engineering ............................. 7
3.1 Induced MPLS Graph ....................................... 9
3.2 The Fundamental Problem of Traffic Engineering Over MPLS . 9
4.0 Augmented Capabilities for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS . 10
5.0 Traffic Trunk Attributes and Characteristics ........... 10
5.1 Bidirectional Traffic Trunks ............................. 11
5.2 Basic Operations on Traffic Trunks ....................... 12
5.3 Accounting and Performance Monitoring .................... 12
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