label switching technology is a flexible and high performance method for forwarding layer three packets that are mapped to layer two flows. each label switch router, lsr, needs a specific label for every flow, where the number of labels depends on the mapping and granularity of flows. data and control driven methods are the most significant and popular methods in label mapping policy. the above...

Shishir Agrawal, [email protected] The rapid growth of Internet and increase in real-time and multimedia applications have created a need to improve Internet routing technology in terms of bandwidth, performance, scalability and delivery of new functionalities. Several proposals involving application of layer 2 switching technology to layer 3 routing have been made to counter above cha...

Multi-Protocol Label Switching is a technology that combines the simplicity of IP routing with the high-speed switching of ATM. Mobile IP is a protocol that allows users to move around and yet maintain continuous IP network connectivity. In this paper, we propose a scheme to integrate the Mobile IP and MPLS protocols. The integration improves the scalability of the Mobile IP data forwarding pro...

Both IP switching and Tag switching were recently proposed to improve the performance of IP routers. They are all based on a multi-layer label-swapping mechanism, but their implementations are quite different. In this paper, we present an overview of both switching mechanisms, compare their key features, identify their constraints, and analyze the effect of these constraints on performance. Our...

Both IP switching and Tag switching were recently proposed to improve the performance of IP routers. They are all based on a multi-layer label-swapping mechanism, but their implementations are quite different. In this paper, we present an overview of both switching mechanisms, compare their key features, identify their constraints, and analyze the effect of these constraints on performance. Our...

IP traffic is growing every day and it is reasonable that IP routers will become bottlenecks in the near future. A solution seems to be the IP switching approach. This approach consists in the coupling of IP routing to fast hardware switching, typically ATM. In this work we are focused on a particular IP switching paradigm, the Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol (IFMP). Nowadays IFMP switching is...

This paper investigates comprehensive operation and experimentation of an all-optical packet switching router with optical label swapping and reamplification and reshaping (2R) regeneration, capable of multihop operation and Internet protocol (IP)client interoperability. In particular, the experiment demonstrates successful packet switching and transport up to 11 hops with 10 9 bit-error rate a...