Since the deployment of real-time sensitive applications in the Internet, the research community has been struggling to leverage the IP best-effort networks for providing QoS assurance. Among the various QoS schemes that had already been proposed, rerouting critical flows seems to be a good choice for its inherent ability to interface easily with management systems. To enhance the responsiveness, the operations performed by rerouting mechanisms should be done pro-actively. A proactive network management and rerouting mechanisms was proposed in [1]. Recently, these rerouting mechanisms were selected to be deployed in an experimental fiber-optic gigabit backbone (GIGA project - sponsored by the Brazilian Research Network - RNP). The fundamental problem is how to specify critical Factors and to develop a consistent set of tests for a complete field evaluation of the implementation. The constraints associated to this process are reduced development time and restricted availability of the ...
Reinaldo de Barros Correia, Luiz F. Rust da Costa