MPLS/VPN traffic engineering: SLA metrics

Omar Cherkaoui; Brenda MacGibbon; Michel Blais; Ahmed Serhrouchni

doi:10.1117/12.434421

26 July 2001 MPLS/VPN traffic engineering: SLA metrics

Omar Cherkaoui, Brenda MacGibbon, Michel Blais, Ahmed Serhrouchni

Proceedings Volume 4527, Technologies, Protocols, and Services for Next-Generation Internet; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.434421
Event: ITCom 2001: International Symposium on the Convergence of IT and Communications, 2001, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

Traffic engineering must be concerned with a broad definition of service that includes network availability, reliability and stability, as well as traditional traffic data on loss, throughput, delay and jitter. MPLS and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) significantly contribute to security and Quality of Service (QoS) within communication networks, but there remains a need for metric measurement and evaluation. The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology which gives a measure for LSP ( Lfew abel Switching Paths) metrics in VPN MPLS networks. We propose here a statistical method for the evaluation of those metrics. Statistical methodology is very important in this type of study since there is a large amount of data to consider. We use the notions of sample surveys, self-similar processes, linear regression, additive models and bootstrapping. The results obtained allows us to estimate the different metrics for such SLAs.

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Omar Cherkaoui, Brenda MacGibbon, Michel Blais, and Ahmed Serhrouchni "MPLS/VPN traffic engineering: SLA metrics", Proc. SPIE 4527, Technologies, Protocols, and Services for Next-Generation Internet, (26 July 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.434421

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