%% You should probably cite draft-ietf-pce-state-sync instead of this I-D. @techreport{litkowski-pce-state-sync-00, number = {draft-litkowski-pce-state-sync-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-litkowski-pce-state-sync/00/}, author = {Stephane Litkowski and Siva Sivabalan}, title = {{Enhancing redundant stateful PCE architecture to support LSP association constraint based computation}}, pagetotal = 24, year = 2016, month = oct, day = 26, abstract = {{[}I-D.ietf-pce-stateful-pce{]} defines stateful extensions for Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP). A Path Computation Client (PCC) can synchronize an LSP state information to a Path Computation Element (PCE). {[}I-D.ietf-pce-stateful-pce{]} allows for PCE redundancy where a PCC can have redundant PCEP sessions towards multiple PCEs. In such a case, a PCC gives control on a LSP to only a single PCE, and only one PCE is responsible for path computation for this delegated LSP. There are some use cases where path computation for a particular LSP is linked to another: the most common use case is path disjointness. The set of LSPs that are dependant to each other may start from different head-ends. In such a case, we cannot guarantee that at any time all the head-ends (acting as PCCs) will delegate their LSP to the same PCE. This scenario where a group of dependant LSPs are delegated to multiple PCEs is called a split-brain scenario. This split-brain scenario may lead to computation loops between PCEs. This document proposes a solution to enhance redundant stateful PCE architecture to overcome those issues.}, }