Impact of GMPLS Control Message Loss

Author

Komolafe, Olufemi ; Sventek, Joe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Glasgow Univ., Glasgow

Volume

26

Issue

14

fYear

2008

fDate

7/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2029

Lastpage

2036

Abstract

GMPLS is typically viewed as an attractive control plane for optical networks. Motivated by a desire to investigate the impact of control plane faults on the data plane, the impact of losing messages from the key GMPLS protocols, OSPF-TE and RSVP-TE, is studied in this paper. A number of configurations of both protocols are compared in a range of scenarios, with the impact of control message loss assessed by evaluating the efficacy of the control plane in establishing and maintaining data plane connections and the overhead incurred in doing so.

Keywords

IP networks; intelligent control; multiprotocol label switching; optical fibre networks; telecommunication control; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; GMPLS control message loss; IP/MPLS; OSPF-TE; RSVP-TE; WDM networks; control plane efficacy; control plane faults impact; data plane connections; generalized multiprotocol label switching; network control and management; open shortest path first-traffic engineering extensions; optical networks; resource reservation protocol-traffic engineering extensions; Automatic control; Communication system traffic control; Engineering management; Multiprotocol label switching; Optical control; Optical fiber networks; Optical losses; Resource management; Routing protocols; WDM networks; Control plane; GMPLS; IP/MPLS; OSPF-TE; RSVP-TE; WDM networks; network control and management;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2008.920137

Filename

4609992