Virtual network approach to scalable IP service deployment and efficient resource management

  • Authors:
  • Yu Cheng;R. Farha;A. Tizghadam;Myung Sup Kim;M. Hashemi;A. Leon-Garcia;J. W.-K. Hong

  • Affiliations:
  • Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

As the Internet evolves into a global all-service communication infrastructure, a key consideration is providing quality of service guarantees over IP with efficient resource utilization in a scalable, flexible, and automatic way. In this article we present a virtual network (VN) based architecture for scalable IP service deployment and efficient network resource management. Particularly considering a DiffServ/MPLS III transport network supporting multiple VNs, we propose a dynamic approach for efficient bandwidth sharing among VNs. The bandwidth sharing is service-level-agreement-based; the spare capacity in underloaded VNs is adaptively and efficiently utilized, and SLA compliance for all the VNs involved is always guaranteed.