PPP extensions for IP/PPP-HDLC over SONET-SDH/WDM

Author

Ndousse, Thomas D. ; Kumar, Srikanta P R

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

575

Abstract

IP has emerged as the internetworking protocol of choice. IP is a best-effort protocol which provides no guarantee of delivery or ordering of packets at their destination. IP is designed to be transparent to the topology of the underlying transport network. This transparency is provided by a framing protocol operating over the data link or MAC layer. Due to the popularity of IP, attempts are underway to transport IP traffic over transport networks such as ADSL, HFC, ATM, SONET/SDH, and WDM. This paper examines the dynamics of IP traffic over SONET/SDH using PPP in HDLC-like framing. Although IP in ATM framing (IP/ATM/SONET) is also presented, the main focus of this paper is on IP/PPP/SONET and its extensions, such as PPP multilink, and PPP tunneling protocol. A discussion on the applicability of these PPP extensions to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks is also presented in the conclusion

Keywords

SONET; asynchronous transfer mode; digital subscriber lines; hybrid fibre coax networks; internetworking; synchronous digital hierarchy; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; wavelength division multiplexing; ADSL; ATM; ATM framing; HDLC-like framing; HFC; IP; IP traffic transport; IP/ATM/SONET; IP/PPP-HDLC; IP/PPP/SONET; MAC layer; PPP extensions; PPP multilink; PPP tunneling protocol; SONET-SDH/WDM; SONET/SDH; WDM networks; Web browsing; best-effort protocol; data link layer; framing protocol; internetworking protocol; transport network; wavelength division multiplexing networks; Asynchronous transfer mode; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Internetworking; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; SONET; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Telecommunication traffic; Tunneling; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. ICC '99. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5284-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1999.768004

Filename

768004