Abstract
The Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) architecture has
become a true success story in the world of
telecommunications. However, MPLS becomes cumbersome if
multicast communication is needed, as aggregating of
labels is not easy. Because of that, when providing
Multicast VPNs, operators need to trade-off bandwidth
usage with the amount of multicast state, sacrificing
efficiency. Forwarding with Bloom filters in the packet
headers offers the opportunity to have quasi-stateless
network elements; the amount of forwarding plane state
does not depend on the number of paths/trees the node
participates in. In this paper, we propose Multiprotocol
Stateless Switching (MPSS), the marriage of MPLS and
Bloom filter based forwarding. The forwarding
architecture inherits the flexibility of MPLS and gives
operators the opportunity to offer Multicast VPN services
while avoiding the difficult process of fine-tuning the
trade-off between bandwidth usage and state. (30 refs.)
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings |
| Subtitle of host publication | INFOCOM IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFCOMW 2010 |
| Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ, USA |
| Publisher | IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4244-6739-6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | INFOCOM IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFCOMW 2010 - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 15 Mar 2010 → 19 Mar 2010 |
Conference
| Conference | INFOCOM IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFCOMW 2010 |
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| Abbreviated title | INFCOMW 2010 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Diego, CA |
| Period | 15/03/10 → 19/03/10 |