Multipoint-to-Point Routing with QoS Guarantees Using Mobile Agents
MATA '01 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications
Optimal Capacity Provisioning for Label Switched Paths in MPLS Networks
NETWORKING '02 Proceedings of the Second International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; and Mobile and Wireless Communications
NETWORKING '00 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6/European Commission International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks
Empirical study of traffic trunking in Linux-based MPLS test-bed
International Journal of Network Management
Modeling and Simulation of Traffic Aggregation Based SIP over MPLS Network Architecture
ANSS '05 Proceedings of the 38th annual Symposium on Simulation
Dynamic inter-SLA resource sharing in path-oriented differentiated services networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Efficient resource allocation for policy-based wireless/wireline interworking
Mobile Networks and Applications
Distributed Flow Admission Control for Multimedia Services Over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Integrating connectionless and connection-oriented traffic using quantum packets
Computer Communications
A game theoretic framework for joint routing and pricing in networks with elastic demands
Proceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
Hardware acceleration for media/transaction applications in network processors
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Load balancing by MPLS in differentiated services networks
Art-QoS'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Architectures for quality of service in the internet
Autonomous agents for self-managed MPLS DiffServ-TE domain
AN'06 Proceedings of the First IFIP TC6 international conference on Autonomic Networking
On integrated qos control in IP/WDM networks
ICN'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Networking - Volume Part I
A distributed simulator for network resource management investigation
Computer Communications
Call admission control for wireless personal communications
Computer Communications
Issues and technologies for supporting multimedia communications over the Internet
Computer Communications
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This article reviews the key differences between traditional IP routing and the emerging multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) approach, and identifies where MPLS adds value to IP networking. In various corners of the industry MPLS has been held up as the solution to IP QoS, gigabit forwarding, network scaling, and traffic engineering. Each of these expectations is critically considered in the light of developments in conventional gigabit IP routers. It is shown that MPLS adds the ability to forward packets over arbitrary non-shortest paths, and emulate high-speed “tunnels” between IP-only domains-capabilities critical to service providers who need to better manage resources around their backbones, or who are planning IP VPN services. However, it is also argued that the technology required to support IP QoS and gigabit forwarding is not unique to MPLS. A network of gigabit IP routers or switches may be entirely sufficient for QoS and performance if traffic engineering is not a requirement