Measuring MPLS overhead

Authors:
A. Pescapè;S. P. Romano;M. Esposito;S. Avallone;G. Ventre
Affiliations:
DIS, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli and ITEM - Laboratorio Nazionale CINI per l'Informatica e la Telematica Multimediali, Napoli, ITA ...;DIS, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli, Via Claudio, 21, 80125 - Napoli, ITALY;DIS, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli and ITEM - Laboratorio Nazionale CINI per l'Informatica e la Telematica Multimediali, Napoli, ITA ...;DIS, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli, Via Claudio, 21, 80125 - Napoli, ITALY;DIS, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli and ITEM - Laboratorio Nazionale CINI per l'Informatica e la Telematica Multimediali, Napoli, ITA ...
Venue:
ICCC '02 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Computer communication
Year:
2002

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Abstract

In this work we present a study of the MPLS overhead on Linux platform measuring the RTT (Round Trip Time). We compare the performance between two scenarios: the IP network and MPLS network. In this paper we show the results in three situations: connection oriented transport protocol (TCP), connectionless transport protocol (UDP) and network protocol (ICMP). We analyze the difference between IP and MPLS and for each protocol we study two type of network connection: back-to-back and shared connection. Finally we evaluate the overhead of the Label Stacking in the case of UDP.