Evaluation of a tunnel set-up mechanism in QoS-aware ethernet access networks

8 November 2004

proceedings article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

https://doi.org/10.1109/lanman.2004.1338440

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a novel tunnel set-up mechanism for Ethernet access networks. The establishment of VLAN-based tunnels is realised with a "scoped refresh" extension of the GVRP standard. For the distribution of QoS-related reservation parameters, a new GARP-based protocol (G2RP) is developed with a closed loop design for updating the reservation parameters and hop-by-hop admission control. Both protocols are implemented on a Linux test bed using the click modular router. Extensive performance evaluations were performed. The results are compared with Linux implementations of the other tunnel set-up mechanisms.

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