Contents

• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Motivation
  • Objective
    • Related Work
  • Layout of the Report
  
  
• Terminology & Literature
  • Definitions
  • Need for Bandwidth Partitioning
  • Need for Link Losses
  • Literature
    • Conventional IP forwarding
    • MPLS Forwarding
  
  
• MPLS Architecture
  • The Label Stack & MPLS Hierarchy
  • Data Structures
    • Next Hop Label Forwarding Entry (NHLFE)
    • Incoming Label Map (ILM)
    • FEC to NHLFE (FTN)
  • Forwarding Schema
    • LSP Next Hop
    • Invalid Incoming Labels
  
  
• Strategy for Network Emulation
  • Emulator
    • Topology
    • Core Network
    • Network Access Points
    • Emulating Multiple Nodes
    • Bandwidth Partitioning
    • Propagation Delays & Link Losses
  
  
• Implementation
  • Emulation of Network Access Points
    • Multiple Routing Tables
    • IP Address to IP Stack Mapping
  • MPLS Module
    • Receiving Packets
    • Transmitting Packets
  • Bandwidth Division
    • Queuing
    • Important Linux Data Structures
    • Issues in Bandwidth Partitioning at an LER
    • Blocking an Application
    • Dequeuing
    • Queue Implementation
  • Link Delays per flow
  • Incorporating the Slow Down Factor
  • Loss for each flow
  • Control Interface to Physical Nodes Daemon
  • Control Interface
  
  
• Network Setup & Results
  • The Physical Network
    • Current Setup Details
  • Results
  
  
• Status & Future Work
• Conclusions
• Future Work
• Bibliography
• About this document ...