Analysis of RSVP-TE graceful restart

GMPLS is viewed as an attractive intelligent control plane for different network technologies and graceful restart is a key technique in ensuring this control plane is resilient and able to recover adequately from faults. This paper analyses the graceful restart mechanism proposed for a key GMPLS protocol, RSVP-TE. A novel analytical model, which may be readily adapted to study other protocols, is developed. This model allows the efficacy of graceful restart to be evaluated in a number of scenarios. It is found that, unsurprisingly, increasing control message loss and increasing the number of data plane connections both increased the time to complete recovery. It was also discovered that a threshold exists beyond which a relatively small change in the control message loss probability causes a disproportionately large increase in the time to complete recovery. The interesting findings in this work suggest that the performance of graceful restart is worthy of further investigation, with emphasis being placed on exploring procedures to optimise the performance of graceful restart

Call and Connections Times in ASON/GMPLS Architecture, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2013, nr 3

It is assumed that demands of information society could be satisfied by architecture ASON/GMPLS comprehended as Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) with Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) protocols. Introduction this solution must be preceded by performance evaluation to guarantee society expectations. Call and connections times are in ASON/GMPLS architecture important for real-time applications. Practical realization is expensive and simulations models are necessary to examine standardized propositions. This paper is devoted to the simulation results of ASON/GMPLS architecture control plane functions in OMNeT++ discrete event simulator. The authors make an effort to explore call/connection set-up times, connection release times in a single domain of ASON/GMPLS architecture

RI-CUBE: dotando al PCE de información abstracta de ingeniería de tráfico interdominio

El cómputo de rutas en Internet se ha vuelto una tarea compleja y costosa. La arquitectura PCE (Path Computation Element) proporciona la funcionalidad necesaria para el cómputo de rutas interdominio en redes MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) y GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching). En este escenario, el cálculo de rutas interdominio se lleva a cabo mediante la cooperación entre PCEs. El PCE que requiera ayuda, utiliza un mecanismo de selección de PCEs colaboradores que podría tener en consideración el estado de la red y sus recursos. Este mecanismo es especialmente importante debido al impacto que tiene en el tiempo total necesario para computar una ruta interdominio completa. En este trabajo, aportamos un detallado estudio de la información de ingeniería de tráfico manejada por los IGPs (Interior Gateway Protocols) más importantes y también un mecanismo para intercambiar esta información en entornos interdominio de forma que no se viole la privacidad de sobre la topología de la dominios afectados. Con esta información en su poder, un elemento PCE puede seleccionar un PCE exterior para colaborar, de forma efectiva y más precisa, minimizando el tiempo total necesario para calcular la ruta interdominio.Postprint (published version

GMPLS-controlled OBS Network Simulator: Implementation of the signaling protocol

Projecte final de carrera fet en col.laboració amb ISCTE-IUL LisboaThe Optical Burst Switching (OBS) paradigm is regaining greater attention by the professionals and researchers of the optical networking field, as it offers a number of advantages when compared with other optical switching paradigms. This type of technology was developed with the objective to carry information all-optically without using any kind of buffering device. However, due to its one-way signaling process, the presence of a control plane is extremely useful to manage complementary signaling and routing features, providing flexibility, reliability and taking more benefits of the OBS networks. The goal of this project is to extend Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) control plane architecture to properly handle OBS networks. In spite of GMPLS is not prepared to lead with these type of networks, this flexible architecture has been seen as a potential candidate to be used as the control plane of other kinds of optical networks (e.g., IP, Ethernet, Optical Circuit networks) and therefore to manage control OBS networks. In this project, the existent event-driven JAVA simulator for OBS networks – JAVOBS – is extended to simulate a possible interoperability model between GMPLS and OBS technologies. The first objective is to implement a new control layer (GMPLS) separated from the data layer of the OBS network. The second and main objective fits on the basic signaling procedures implementation of the GMPLS Reservation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) protocol, in order to analyze the performance of the OBS network’s behavior when it is controlled by such interoperable control plane (GMPLS/OBS)