Empirical study of traffic trunking in Linux‐based MPLS test‐bed

Abstract

The thrust of this study is to construct an MPLS test-bed using open hardware and software and later use this test-bed for experimenting with various traffic engineering options available with MPLS. We have constructed a test-bed using Pentium PCs and Linux and used this testbed to try a well-known MPLS traffic engineering feature of separating flows into multiple trunks. The purpose of this separation is to experimentally assess the quality of service benefits we can expect from MPLS networks.

A proposal and evaluation of a LSP preemption policy implemented with fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms in a diffserv/MPLS test-bed

“…Moreover, in [5] a new politics of weighted preemption with an adaptative scheme that minimizes the rerouting is developed. In [17] the MPLS test-bed construction using personal computers (PC) with Operational System (OS) Linux is illustrated and the results to the flows separation are presented . In [12] is presented the development of a MPLS module for installation in OS kernel in order to allow the creation of an MPLS experimental domain.…”