- author = "Antoine B. Bagula",
- title = "Hybrid Routing in Next Generation {IP} Networks: {QoS} Routing Mechanisms and Network Control Strategies",
- school = "Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)",
- year = "2006",
- type = "Doctor of Technology",
- address = "Stockholm, Sweden",
- month = dec,
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Gene Expression Programming",
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URL = "
http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:11272",
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URL = "
http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:11272/FULLTEXT01.pdf",
- size = "78 pages",
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abstract = "Communication networks have evolved from
circuit-switched and hop-by-hop routed systems into
hybrid data/optical networks using the Internet as a
common backbone carrying narrow- and broad-band traffic
offered by a multitude of access networks. This
data/optical backbone is built around a
multi-technology/multi-protocol routing architecture
which runs the IP protocols in a collapsed IP stack
where ATM and SONET/SDH have been replaced by the suite
of Generalised Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS)
protocols. A further evolution referred to as ``IP over
Photons'' or ``All IP - All Optical'' is expected where
``redundant intermediate layers'' will be eliminated to
run IP directly on top of optical cross-connects (OXCs)
with the expectation of achieving savings on operation
expenditures (OPEX) and capital expenditures (CAPEX).
``IP over Photons'' has been stalled by the immaturity
in the control and data plane technologies leading to
complex and time-consuming manual network planning and
configurations which require a group of ``layer
experts'' to operate and maintain a hybrid data/optical
network.
By making the status of each link and node of a data/optical network visible to a common control, GMPLS protocols have opened the way for automated operation and management allowing the different layers of an IP stack to be managed by a single network operator. GMPLS protocols provide the potential to make more efficient use of the IP backbone by having network management techniques such as Traffic Engineering (TE) and Network Engineering (NE), once the preserve of telecommunications, to be reinvented and deployed to effect different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements in the IP networks. NE moves bandwidth to where the traffic is offered to the network while TE moves traffic to where the bandwidth is available to achieve QoS agreements between the current and expected traffic and the available resources. However,several issues need to be resolved before TE and NE be effectively deployed in emerging and next generation IP networks. These include (1) the identification of QoS requirements of the different network layer interfaces of the emerging and next generation IP stack (2) the mapping of these QoS requirements into QoS routing mechanisms and network control strategies and (3) the deployment of these mechanisms and strategies within and beyond an Internet domain's boundaries to maximise the engineering and economic efficiency.
Building upon different frameworks and research fields, this thesis revisits the issue of Traffic and Network Engineering (TE and NE) to present and evaluate the performance of different QoS routing mechanisms and network control strategies when deployed at different network layer interfaces of a hybrid data/optical network where an IP over MPLS network is layered above an MP lambdaS/Fibre infrastructure. These include mechanisms and strategies to be deployed at the IP/MPLS, MPLS/MP LS and MP lambdaS/Fiber network layer interfaces. The main contributions of this thesis are threefold. First we propose and compare the performance of hybrid routing approaches to be deployed in IP/MPLS networks by combining connectionless routing mechanisms used by classical IGP protocols and the connection oriented routing approach borrowed from MPLS. Second, we present QoS routing mechanisms and network control strategies to be deployed at the MPLS/MP lambdaS network layer interface with a focus on contention-aware routing and inter-layer visibility to improve multi-layer optimality and resilience. Finally, we build upon fiber transmission characteristics to propose QoS routing mechanisms where the routing in the MPLS and MP lS layers is conducted by Photonic characteristics of the fiber such as the availability of the physical link and its failure risk group probability.",
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notes = "Public defence: 2006-12-12, Aula, KTH-Forum,
Isafjordsgatan 39, Kista, 13:00
Supervisor: Pehrson, Bjorn (KTH, School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Electronic, Computer and Software Systems, ECS)
Opponent: Stiller, Bukhard, Professor (ETH Zurich)",
