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Seventh IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'02)
A New Approach to Construct Multicast Trees in MPLS Networks
Ramada Hotel, Taormina-Giardini Naxos, Italy
July 01-July 04
ISBN: 0-7695-1671-8
Ali Boudani, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
Bernard Cousin, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
In this paper1 , we present a new approach to construct multicast trees in MPLS networks. This approach utilizes MPLS LSPs between multicast tree branching node routers in order to reduce forwarding states and enhance scalability. In our approach only routers that are acting as multicast tree branching node for a group need to keep forwarding state for that group. All other non-branching node routers simply forward data packets over traffic engineered unicast routes using MPLS LSPs. We can deduce that our approach can be largely deployed because it uses for multicast traffic the same unicast MPLS forwarding scheme. In this paper, we briefly discuss MPLS, the multicast scalability problem, merging the two technologies, related works and different techniques for forwarding state reduction. We evaluate the approach and present some related issues to conclude finally that it is feasible and promising.
Citation:
Ali Boudani, Bernard Cousin, "A New Approach to Construct Multicast Trees in MPLS Networks," iscc, pp.913, Seventh IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'02), 2002
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