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Improving Label Space Usage for Ethernet Label Switched Paths

Ethernet is becoming the dominant aggregation technology for carrier transport networks; however, as it is a LAN technology, native bridged ethernet does not fulfill all the carrier requirements. One of the schemes proposed by the research community to make ethernet fulfill carrier requirements is ethernet VLAN-label switching (ELS). ELS allows the creation of label switched data paths using a 12-bit label encoded in the VLAN TAG control information field. Previous label switching technologies such as MPLS use more bits for encoding the label. Hence, they do not suffer from label sparsity issues as ELS might. This paper studies the sparsity issues resulting from the reduced ELS VLAN-label space and proposes the use of the label merging technique to improve label space usage. Experimental results show that label merging considerably improves label space usage

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Author: Caro Pérez, Luis Fernando
Papadimitriou, Dimitri
Marzo i Lázaro, Josep Lluís
Date: 2008
Abstract: Ethernet is becoming the dominant aggregation technology for carrier transport networks; however, as it is a LAN technology, native bridged ethernet does not fulfill all the carrier requirements. One of the schemes proposed by the research community to make ethernet fulfill carrier requirements is ethernet VLAN-label switching (ELS). ELS allows the creation of label switched data paths using a 12-bit label encoded in the VLAN TAG control information field. Previous label switching technologies such as MPLS use more bits for encoding the label. Hence, they do not suffer from label sparsity issues as ELS might. This paper studies the sparsity issues resulting from the reduced ELS VLAN-label space and proposes the use of the label merging technique to improve label space usage. Experimental results show that label merging considerably improves label space usage
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Citation: Caro, L.F., Papadimitriou, D., i Marzo i Lázaro, J.L. (2008). Improving label space usage for Ethernet Label Switched Paths. IEEE International Conference on Communications : 2008 : ICC ’08, p.5685 - 5691. Recuperat 04 maig 2010, a http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4534101
ISBN: 978-1-4244-2075-9
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/2157
Language: eng
Publisher: IEEE
Collection: Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2008.1065
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Is part of: © IEEE International Conference on Communications : 2008 : ICC ’08, 2008, p. 5685-5691
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Subject: Dades -- Transmissió
Ethernet (Sistema de xarxa d’àrea local)
Data transmission systems
Ethernet (Local area network system)
Title: Improving Label Space Usage for Ethernet Label Switched Paths
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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