— Many network operators offer some type of tiered service, in which users may select only from a small set of service levels (tiers). Such a service has the potential to simplif...
The current Internet architecture comprises of different privately owned Internet service providers (ISPs) where higher tier ISPs supply connectivity service to lower tier ISPs an...
This paper presents a hardware/software co-design for Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) using RSVP-TE as a signaling protocol. MPLS is the protocol framework on which the atte...
Abstract— We develop an economic model for networks offering tiered services and we formulate the problem of selecting the service tiers from three perspectives: one that conside...
This paper proposes an approach to Traffic Engineering that uses Differentiated Services (diffserv) and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) to provide quantitative QoS guarantees...
Richard Rabbat, Kenneth P. Laberteaux, Nirav Modi,...