An open source traffic engineering toolbox

  • Authors:
  • G. Leduc;H. Abrahamsson;S. Balon;S. Bessler;M. D'Arienzo;O. Delcourt;J. Domingo-Pascual;S. Cerav-Erbas;I. Gojmerac;X. Masip;A. Pescapè;B. Quoitin;S. P. Romano;E. Salvadori;F. Skivée;H. T. Tran;S. Uhlig;H. ímit

  • Affiliations:
  • RUN, Université de Liège, Belgium;Computer and Network Architectures Laboratory, SICS, Sweden;RUN, Université de Liège, Belgium;Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universití di Napoli Federico II, Italy;RUN, Université de Liège, Belgium;Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain;POMS, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium;Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria;Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universití di Napoli Federico II, Italy;INGI, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universití di Napoli Federico II, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, Universití di Trento, Italy;RUN, Université de Liège, Belgium;Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria;INGI, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium;POMS, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present the TOTEM open source Traffic Engineering (TE) toolbox and a set of TE methods that we have designed and/or integrated. These methods cover intra-domain and inter-domain TE, IP-based and MPLS-based TE. They are suitable for network optimisation, better routing of traffic for providing QoS, load balancing, protection and restoration in case of failure, etc. The toolbox is designed to be deployed as an on-line tool in an operational network, or used off-line as an optimisation tool or as a traffic engineering simulator.