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A Framework for Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)
Overview This document presents a framework for the GMPLS control plane. It studies the GMPLS control plane from three different perspectives: functional partitioning, computational layering and network partitioning. First, it studies the functional building blocks of a generic GMPLS control plane and illustrates that, in order to be generalized for different technologies and their specific application environment, what each functional component could assume, what it "should" (instead of "how") accomplish, what are the generic procedures and possible options. Then, this document goes beyond the functional partitioning and a single network. It illustrates the computational network layering, network partitions and their implications to the GMPLS control plane design, operations for the overall hybrid network. It also covers issues associated with control plane interaction of multiple networks, control plane integration and control plane operation models.
| Publisher | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | File Format | WORD |
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| Date Published | July 2001 | Downloads | 7 |
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