Delivering Multicast Services over MPLS Infrastructure

Abstract

The exponential growth in internet technology has challenged service providers to provide multicast based services like broadcast TV, video on demand and streaming music services over the broadband access infrastructure to their end clients. To meet these requirements, service providers are making use of multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) to better provision and support these bandwidth demanding applications for their end clients. This article presents a performance analysis for the transport of multicast services across MPLS infrastructure networks. Multicast flows are carried using Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) as transport media. We further investigate the reliability of multicasting over VPLS and compare it with PIM interms of jitter and delay experimentally using our Optical Networks Research Lab (ONRL) testbed.

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“…Shirazi, Asim, Irfan, and Ikram studied and proposed IP Security (IPSec) to mitigate MPLS vulnerabilities and risks [30]. Alawieh and Mouftah analyzed the performance of Multicast service over the MPLS network and compared its reliability with Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) [31]. Al Mamun, Sheltami, Ali, and Anwar did a comparative study of the performance of the traditional dynamic routing protocols like OSPF and EIGRP, and combined those routing protocols and MPLS to achieve overall network performance improvement [32].…”