MPLS and traffic engineering in IP networks.

Rapid growth and increasing requirements for service quality, reliability, and efficiency have made traffic engineering an essential consideration in the design and operation of large public Internet backbone networks. Internet traffic engineering addresses the issue of performance optimization of o...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Communications magazine 37, 12 (1999).
Main Author:	Awduche, D.O
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	ATM overlay model. IP networks. IP traffic transport. Internet traffic engineering. MPLS. QoS provisioning. Constraint-based routing. Differentiated services. Multiprotocol label switching. Performance optimization. Public Internet backbone networks. Quality of service. Reliability. Service provider networks. Service quality.