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On the Performance of MPLS TE Queues for QoS Routing

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Overview Traffic Engineering (TE) refers to techniques and processes to route traffic through a network on a path other than that would have been chosen if standard routing methods had been used. The goal of traffic engineering to a service provider is to maximize the utilization of network resources, and/or enhance QoS a service provider can offer. To justify the increase in network operational complexity associated with traffic engineering, TE must enable new service offerings, reduce the overall cost of operations, maximize potential revenues and increase customer satisfaction. In a large network, it is possible that available network bandwidth is not efficiently utilized because the intra-domain routing protocol, such as OSPF, finds path based on a single "Least-cost" scalar metric for each destination.

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Publisher	Polytechnic University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Switching, Quality of Service, MPLS

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