Internet Draft
                                                        Gerald R. Ash
                                                        AT&T Labs
                                                        July 2000
Expires: January 2001



             Traffic Engineering & QoS Methods for IP-, ATM-, &
                       TDM-Based Multiservice Networks

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ABSTRACT

The draft describes, analyzes, and recommends traffic engineering (TE)
methods which control a network's response to traffic demands and other
stimuli, such as link failures or node failures.  These TE methods include:

*       traffic management through control of routing functions, which
include call routing (number/name translation to routing address),
connection routing, QoS resource management, routing table management, and
dynamic transport routing.

*       capacity management through control of network design.

*       TE operational requirements for traffic management and capacity
management, including forecasting, performance monitoring, and short-term
network adjustment.

These TE methods are recommended for application across network types based
on established practice and experience.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT

1.0 Introduction
1.1 Scope
1.2 Definitions
1.3 Abbreviations
1.4 Traffic Engineering Model
1.5 Traffic Models
1.6 Traffic Management Functions
1.7 Capacity Management Functions
1.8 Traffic Engineering Operational Requirements
1.9 Traffic Engineering Modeling & Analysis
1.10 Conclusions/Recommendations
1.10.1 Conclusions/Recommendations on Call Routing & Connection Routing
Methods (ANNEX 2)
1.10.2 Conclusions/Recommendations on QoS Resource Management (ANNEX 3)
1.10.3 Conclusions/Recommendations on Routing Table Management Methods &
Requirements (ANNEX 4)
1.10.4 Conclusions/Recommendations on Dynamic Transport Routing Methods
(ANNEX 5)
1.10.5 Conclusions/Recommendations on Capacity Management Methods (ANNEX 6)
1.10.6 Conclusions/Recommendations on TE Operational Requirements (ANNEX 7)
1.11 Authors' Addresses
1.12 Copyright Statement

ANNEX 1. Bibliography

ANNEX 2.  Call Routing & Connection Routing Methods
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Call Routing Methods
2.3 Connection (Bearer-Path) Routing Methods
2.4 Hierarchical Fixed Routing (FR) Path Selection
2.5 Time-Dependent Routing (TDR) Path Selection
2.6 State-Dependent Routing (SDR) Path Selection
2.7 Event-Dependent Routing (EDR) Path Selection
2.8 Interdomain Routing
2.9 Modeling of Traffic Engineering Methods
2.9.1 Network Design Comparisons
2.9.2 Network Performance Comparisons
2.9.3 Network Modeling Conclusions
2.10 Conclusions/Recommendations

ANNEX 3.  QoS Resource Management Methods
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Class-of-Service Identification, Policy-Based Routing Table Derivation,
& QoS Resource Management Steps
3.2.1 Class-of-Service Identification
3.2.2 Policy-Based Routing Table Derivation
3.2.3 QoS Resource Management Steps
3.3 Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation, Protection, and Reservation Principles
3.4 Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation, Protection, and Reservation
3.4.1 Per-VNET Bandwidth Allocation/Reservation - Meshed Network Case
3.4.2 Per-VNET Bandwidth Allocation/Reservation - Sparse Network Case
3.5 Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation, Protection, and Reservation
3.5.1 Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation/Reservation - Meshed Network Case
3.5.2 Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation/Reservation - Sparse Network Case
3.6 Priority Queuing

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3.7 Other QoS Resource Management Constraints
3.8 Interdomain QoS Resource Management
3.9 Modeling of Traffic Engineering Methods
3.9.1 Performance of Bandwidth Reservation Methods
3.9.2 Multiservice Network Performance: Per-VNET vs. Per-Flow Bandwidth
Allocation
3.9.3 Multiservice Network Performance: Multi-Area 2-Level Hierarchical vs.
Single-Area Flat Topology
3.9.4 Multiservice Network Performance: Need for MPLS & DiffServ
3.10 Conclusions/Recommendations

ANNEX 4.  Routing Table Management Methods & Requirements
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Routing Table Management for IP-Based Networks
4.3 Routing Table Management for ATM-Based Networks
4.4 Routing Table Management for TDM-Based Networks
4.5 Signaling and Information Exchange Requirements
4.5.1 Call Routing (Number Translation to Routing Address)
Information-Exchange Parameters
4.5.2 Connection Routing Information-Exchange Parameters
4.5.3 QoS Resource Management Information-Exchange Parameters
4.5.4 Routing Table Management Information-Exchange Parameters
4.5.5 Harmonization of Information-Exchange Standards
4.5.6 Open Routing Application Programming Interface (API)
4.6 Examples of Internetwork Routing
4.6.1 Internetwork E Uses a Mixed Path Selection Method
4.6.2 Internetwork E Uses a Single Path Selection Method
4.7 Modeling of Traffic Engineering Methods
4.8 Conclusions/Recommendations

ANNEX 5.  Dynamic Transport Routing Methods
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Dynamic Transport Routing Principles
5.3 Dynamic Transport Routing Examples
5.4 Modeling of Traffic Engineering Methods
5.4.1 Dynamic Transport Routing Capacity Design
5.4.2 Performance for Network Failures
5.4.3 Performance for General Traffic Overloads
5.4.4 Performance for Unexpected Overloads
5.4.5 Performance for Peak-Day Traffic Loads
5.5 Conclusions/Recommendations

ANNEX 6.  Capacity Management Methods
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Link Capacity Design Models
6.3 Shortest Path Selection Models
6.4 Multihour Network Design Models
6.4.1 Discrete Event Flow Optimization (DEFO) Models
6.4.2 Traffic Load Flow Optimization (TLFO) Models
6.4.3 Virtual Trunking Flow Optimization (VTFO) Models
6.5 Day-to-day Load Variation Design Models
6.6 Forecast Uncertainty/Reserve Capacity Design Models
6.7 Meshed, Sparse, and Dynamic-Transport Design Models
6.8 Modeling of Traffic Engineering Methods
6.9 Conclusions/Recommendations

ANNEX 7.  Traffic Engineering Operational Requirements
7.1 Introduction

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7.2 Traffic Management
7.2.1 Real-time Performance Monitoring
7.2.2 Network Control
7.2.3 Work Center Functions
7.2.3.1 Automatic controls
7.2.3.2 Code Controls
7.2.3.3 Reroute Controls
7.2.3.4 Peak-Day Control
7.2.4 Traffic Management on Peak Days
7.2.5 Interfaces to Other Work Centers
7.3 Capacity Management---Forecasting
7.3.1 Load forecasting
7.3.1.1 Configuration Database Functions
7.3.1.2 Load Aggregation, Basing, and Projection Functions
7.3.1.3 Load Adjustment Cycle and View of Business Adjustment Cycle
7.3.2 Network Design
7.3.3 Work Center Functions
7.3.4 Interfaces to Other Work Centers
7.4 Capacity Management---Daily and Weekly Performance Monitoring
7.4.1 Daily Congestion Analysis Functions
7.4.2 Study-week Congestion Analysis Functions
7.4.3 Study-period Congestion Analysis Functions
7.5 Capacity Management---Short-Term Network Adjustment
7.5.1 Network Design Functions
7.5.2 Work Center Functions
7.5.3 Interfaces to Other Work Centers
7.6 Comparison of Off-line (TDR) versus On-line (SDR/EDR) TE Methods
7.7 Conclusions/Recommendations

1.1     Introduction

Traffic engineering (TE) is an indispensable network function which controls
a network's response to traffic demands and other stimuli, such as network
failures.  TE encompasses

*       traffic management through control of routing functions, which
include number/name translation to routing address, connection routing,
routing table management, QoS resource management, and dynamic transport
routing.
*       capacity management through control of network design.

Current and future networks are rapidly evolving to carry a multitude of
voice/ISDN services and packet data services on internet protocol (IP),
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and time division multiplexing (TDM)
networks. The long awaited data revolution is occurring, with the extremely
rapid growth of data services such as IP-multimedia and frame-relay
services.  Within these categories of networks and services supported by IP,
ATM, and TDM protocols have evolved various TE methods.  The TE mechanisms
are covered in the draft, and a comparative analysis and performance
evaluation of various TE alternatives is presented.  Finally, operational
requirements for TE implementation are covered.

We begin this draft with a general model for TE functions, which include
traffic management and capacity management functions responding to traffic
demands on the network.  We then present a traffic-variations model which
these TE functions are responding to.  Next we outline traffic management
functions which include call routing (number/name translation to routing
address), connection or bearer-path routing, QoS resource management,
routing table management, and dynamic transport routing.  These traffic

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management functions are further developed in ANNEXs 2, 3, 4, and 5.  We
then outline capacity management functions, which are further developed in
ANNEX 6.  Finally we briefly summarize TE operational requirements, which
are further developed in ANNEX 7.

In ANNEX 2, we present models for call routing, which entails number/name
translation to a routing address associated with service requests, and also
compare various connection (bearer-path) routing methods. In ANNEX 3, we
examine QoS resource management methods in detail, and illustrate per-flow
versus per-virtual-network (or per-traffic-trunk or per-bandwidth-pipe)
resource management and the realization of multiservice integration with
priority routing services.  In ANNEX 4, we identify and discuss routing
table management approaches. This includes a discussion of TE signaling and
information exchange requirements needed for interworking across network
types, so that the information exchange at the interface is compatible
across network types. In ANNEX 5 we describe methods for dynamic transport
routing, which is enabled by the capabilities such as optical cross-connect
devices, to dynamically rearrange transport network capacity.  In ANNEX 6 we
describe principles for TE capacity management, and in ANNEX 7 we present TE
operational requirements.

1.2     Definitions

Alternate Path Routing: a routing technique where multiple paths, rather
                        than just the shortest path, between a
                        source node and a destination node are
                        utilized to route traffic, which is used to
                        distribute load among multiple paths in the
                        network;
Autonomous System:      a routing domain which has a common administrative
                        authority and consistent
                        internal routing policy. An AS may employ multiple
                        intradomain routing protocols
                        and interfaces to other ASs via a common
                        interdomain routing protocol;
Blocking:               refers to the denial or non-admission of a call or
                        connection-request, based for
                        example on the lack of available resources
                        on a particular link (e.g., link bandwidth
                        or queuing resources);
Call:                   generic term to describe the establishment,
                        utilization, and release of a connection
                        (bearer path) or data flow;
Call Routing:           number (or name) translation to routing address(es),
                        perhaps involving use of
                        network servers or intelligent network (IN)
                        databases for service processing;
Class of Service        characteristics of a service such as
                        described by service identity, virtual network,
                        link capability requirements, QoS & traffic
                        threshold parameters;
Connection:             bearer path, label switched path, virtual circuit,
                        and/or virtual path established
                        by call routing and connection routing;

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Connection Admission    a process by which it is determined whether a link
                        or a node has sufficient resources
Control (CAC)           to satisfy the QoS required for a connection or
                        flow. CAC is typically applied by each
                        node in the path of a connection or flow
                        during set-up to check local resource
                        availability;
Connection Routing:     connection establishment through selection of one
                        path from path choices governed
                        by the routing table;
Crankback               a technique where a connection or flow setup is
                        backtracked along the
                        call/connection/flow path up to the first
node that can determine an alternative path to
                        the destination node;
Flow:                   bearer traffic associated with a given connection or
                        connectionless stream having the
                        same originating node, destination node, class of
                        service, and session identification;
Integrated Services:    a model which allows for integration of services
                        with various QoS classes, such as
                        key-priority, normal-priority, & best-effort
                        priority services;
Link:                   a bandwidth transmission medium between nodes that
                        is engineered as a unit;
Logical Transport Link: a bandwidth transmission medium established over
                        physical transport links and
                        switched, for example, through optical cross-connect devices;
Destination Node:       terminating node within a given network;
Node:                   a network element (switch, router, exchange)
                        providing switching and routing
                        capabilities, or an aggregation of such
                        network elements representing a network;
Multiservice Network    a network in which various classes of service share
                        the transmission, switching,
                        queuing, management, and other resources of
                        the network;
O-D pair:               an originating node to destination node pair for a given
                        connection/bandwidth-allocation request;
Originating Node:       originating node within a given network;
Path:                   a concatenation of links providing a
                        connection/bandwidth-allocation between an
                        O-D pair;
Physical Transport Link:a bandwidth transmission medium established
                        over a physical path such as on a fiber
                        transmission link;
Policy-Based Routing    network function which involves the application of
                        rules applied to input parameters
                        to derive a routing table and its associated
                        parameters;
QoS                     a set of service requirements to be met by the
                        network while transporting a connection
                        or flow;
QoS Resource            network functions which include class-of-service
                        identification, routing table derivation,
Management              connection admission, bandwidth allocation,
                        bandwidth protection, bandwidth
                        reservation, priority routing, and priority

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                        queuing;
QoS Routing             see QoS Resource Management;
Route:                  a set of paths connecting the same originating
                        node-destination node pair;
Routing Table:          describes the path choices and selection rules to select one
                        path out of the route
                        for a connection/bandwidth-allocation
                        request;
Traffic Engineering     encompasses traffic management, capacity management,
                        traffic measurement and
                        modeling, network modeling, and performance
                        analysis;
Traffic Engineering     network functions which support traffic engineering
                        and include call routing,
Methods                 connection  routing, QoS resource management,
                        routing table management, and capacity
                        management;
Traffic Stream:         a class of  connection requests with the same
                        traffic characteristics;
Traffic Trunk:          an aggregation of traffic flows of the same class
                        which are routed on the same path
Via node:               an intermediate node in a path within a given
                        network;

1.3     Abbreviations

AAR                     Automatic Alternate Routing
ABR                     Available Bit Rate
ADR                     Address
AESA                    ATM End System Address
AFI                     Authority and Format Identifier
AINI                    ATM Inter-Network Interface
ALB                     Available Link Bandwidth
ARR                     Automatic Rerouting
AS                      Autonomous System
ATM                     Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B                       Busy
BBP                     Bandwidth Broker Processor
BGP                     Border Gateway Protocol
BICC                    Bearer Independent Call Control
B-ISDN                  Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
BNA                     Bandwidth Not Available
BW                      Bandwidth
BWIP                    Bandwidth in Progress
BWOF                    Bandwidth Offered
BWOV                    Bandwidth Overflow
BWPC                    Bandwidth Peg Count
CAC                     Call (or Connection) Admission Control
CBK                     Crankback
CBR                     Constant Bit Rate
CCS                     Common Channel Signaling
CIC                     Call Identification Code
CRLDP                   Constraint-Based Routing Label Distribution Protocol
CRLSP                   Constraint-Based Routing Label Switched Path
DADR                    Distributed Adaptive Dynamic Routing
DAR                     Dynamic Alternate Routing
DCC                     Data Country Code
DCR                     Dynamically Controlled Routing

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DIFFSERV                Differentiated Services
DN                      Destination Node
DNHR                    Dynamic Nonhierarchical Routing
DoS                     Depth-of-Search
DSP                     Domain Specific Part
DTL                     Designated Transit List
EDR                     Event Dependent Routing
ER                      Explicit Route
FR                      Fixed Routing
GCAC                    Generic Call Admission Control
GOS                     Grade of Service
HL                      Heavily Loaded
IAM                     Initial Address Message
ICD                     International Code Designator
IDI                     Initial Domain Identifier
IDP                     Initial Domain Part
IE                      Information Element
IETF                    Internet Engineering Task Force
II                      Information Interchange
ILBW                    Idle Link Bandwidth
INRA                    International Network Routing Address
IP                      Internet Protocol
IPDC                    Internet Protocol Device Control
LBL                     Link Blocking Level
LC                      Link capability
LDP                     Label Distribution Protocol
LL                      Lightly Loaded
LLR                     Least Loaded Routing
LSA                     Link State Advertisement
LSP                     Label Switched Path
MEGACO                  Media Gateway Control
MOD                     Modify
MPLS                    Multiprotocol Label Switching
NANP                    North American Numbering Plan
N-ISDN                  Narrowband Integrated Services Digital Network
NSAP                    Network Service Access Point
ODR                     Optimized Dynamic Routing
ON                      Originating Node
OSPF                    Open Shortest Route First
PAR                     Parameters
PNNI                    Private Network-to-Network Interface
PSTN                    Public Switched Telephone Network
PTSE                    PNNI Topology State Elements
QoS                     Quality of Service
R                       Reserved
RQE                     Routing Query Element
RSE                     Routing State Element
RRE                     Routing Recommendation Element
RSVP                    Resource Reservation Protocol
RTNR                    Real-Time Network Routing
SCP                     Service Control Point
SDR                     State-Dependent Routing
SI                      Service Identity
SIP                     Session Initiation Protocol
SS7                     Signaling System 7
STR                     State- and Time-Dependent Routing
SVC                     Switched Virtual Circuit
SVP                     Switched Virtual Path

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TBW                     Total Bandwidth
TBWIP                   Total Bandwidth In Progress
TDR                     Time-Dependent Routing
TIPHON                  Telecommunications and Internet Protocol Harmonization
                        Over Networks
TLV                     Type/Length/Value
ToS                     Type of Service
TR                      Trunk Reservation
TRAF                    Traffic
TSE                     Topology State Element
UBR                     Unassigned Bit Rate
UNI                     User-Network Interface
VBR                     Variable Bit Rate
VC                      Virtual Circuit
VCI                     Virtual Circuit Identifier
VN                      Via Node
VNET                    Virtual Network
VPI                     Virtual Path Identifier
WIN                     Worldwide Intelligent Network (Routing)

1.4     Traffic Engineering Model

Figure 1.1 illustrates a model for network traffic engineering. The central
box represents the network, which can have various architectures and
configurations, and the routing tables used within the network. Network
configurations could include metropolitan area networks, national intercity
networks, and global international networks, which support both hierarchical
and nonhierarchical structures and combinations of the two. Routing tables
describe the path choices from an originating node to a terminating node,
for a connection request for a particular service. Hierarchical and
nonhierarchical traffic routing tables are possible, as are fixed routing
tables and dynamic routing tables. Routing tables are used for a
multiplicity of traffic and transport services on the telecommunications
network.

Figure 1.1  Traffic Engineering Model

Terminology used in the draft, as illustrated in Figure 1.2, is that a link
is a transmission medium (logical or physical) which connects two nodes, a
path is a sequence of links connecting an origin and destination node, and a
route is the set of different paths between the origin and destination that
a call might be routed on within a particular routing discipline.  Here a
call is a generic term used to describe the establishment, utilization, and
release of a connection, or data flow.  In this context a call can refer to
a voice call established perhaps using the SS7 signaling protocol, or to a
web-based data flow session, established perhaps by the HTTP and associated
IP-based protocols.  Various implementations of routing tables are discussed
in ANNEX 2.

Figure 1.2  Terminology

Traffic engineering functions include traffic management, capacity
management, and network planning.  Traffic management ensures that network
performance is maximized under all conditions including load shifts and
failures. Capacity management ensures that the network is designed and
provisioned to meet performance objectives for network demands at minimum
cost. Network planning ensures that node and transport capacity is planned
and deployed in advance of forecasted traffic growth. Figure 1.1 illustrates

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traffic management, capacity management, and network planning as three
interacting feedback loops around the network.  The input driving the
network ("system") is a noisy traffic load ("signal"), consisting of
predictable average demand components added to unknown forecast error and
load variation components. The load variation components have different time
constants ranging from instantaneous variations, hour-to-hour variations,
day-to-day variations, and week-to-week or seasonal variations. Accordingly,
the time constants of the feedback controls are matched to the load
variations, and function to regulate the service provided by the network
through capacity and routing adjustments.

Traffic management functions include a) call routing, which entails
number/name translation to routing address, b) connection or bearer-path
routing methods, c) QoS resource management, d) routing table management,
and e) dynamic transport routing.  These functions can be a) decentralized
and distributed to the network nodes, b) centralized and allocated to a
centralized controller such as a bandwidth broker, or c) performed by a
hybrid combination of these approaches.

Capacity management plans, schedules, and provisions needed capacity over a
time horizon of several months to one year or more. Under exceptional
circumstances, capacity can be added on a shorter-term basis, perhaps one to
several weeks, to alleviate service problems. Network design embedded in
capacity management encompasses both routing design and capacity design.
Routing design takes account of the capacity provided by capacity
management, and on a weekly or possibly real-time basis adjusts routing
tables as necessary to correct service problems. The updated routing tables
are provisioned (configured) in the switching systems either directly or via
an automated routing update system. Network planning includes node planning
and transport planning, operates over a multiyear forecast interval, and
drives network capacity expansion over a multiyear period based on network
forecasts.

The scope of the TE  methods includes the establishment of connections for
narrowband, wideband, and broadband multimedia services within multiservice
networks and between multiservice networks.  Here a multiservice network
refers to one in which various classes of service share the transmission,
switching, management, and other resources of the network.  These classes of
services can include constant bit rate (CBR), variable bit rate (VBR),
unassigned bit rate (UBR), and available bit rate (ABR) traffic classes.
There are quantitative performance requirements that the various classes of
service normally are required to meet, such as end-to-end blocking, delay,
and/or delay-jitter objectives.  These objectives are achieved through a
combination of traffic management and capacity management.

Figure 1.3 illustrates the functionality for setting up a connection from an
originating node in one network to a destination node in another network,
using one or more routing methods across networks of various types.  The
Figure illustrates a multimedia connection between two PCs which carries
traffic for a combination of voice, video, and image applications.  For this
purpose a logical point-to-point connection is established from the PC
served by node a1 to the PC served by node c2.  The connection could be a
CBR ISDN connection across TDM-based network A and ATM-based network C, or
it might be a VBR connection via IP-based network B.  Gateway nodes a3, b1,
b4, and c1 provide the interworking capabilities between the TDM-, ATM-, and
IP-based networks.  The actual multimedia connection might be routed, for
example, on a path consisting of nodes a1-a2-a3-b1-b4-c1-c2, or possibly on
a different path through different gateway nodes.

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Figure 1.3  Example of Multimedia Connection across TDM-, ATM-, and IP-Based
            Networks

We now briefly describe the traffic model, the traffic management functions,
the capacity management functions, and the TE operational requirements,
which are further developed in ANNEXs 2-7 of the draft.

1.5     Traffic Models

In this section we discuss load variation models which drive traffic
engineering functions, that is traffic management, capacity management, and
network planning. Table 1.1 summarizes examples of models that could be used
to represent the different traffic variations under consideration.  Traffic
models for both voice and data traffic need to be reflected.

Work has been done on measurement and characterization of data traffic, such
as web-based traffic [FGLRRT00, FGHW99, LTWW94].  Some of the analysis
suggests that web-based traffic can be self-similar, or fractal, with very
large variability and extremely long tails of the associated traffic
distributions.  Characterization studies of such data traffic have
investigated various traditional models, such as the Markov modulated
Poisson Process (MMPP), in which it is shown that MMPP with two parameters
can suitably capture the essential nature of the data traffic [H99,
BCHLL99].  Modeling work has been done to investigate the causes of the
extreme variability of web-based traffic.  In [HM00], the congestion-control
mechanisms for web-based traffic, such as window flow control for
transport-control-protocol (TCP) traffic appear to be at the root cause of
its extreme variability.  [HM00] suggests that the regular flow control
dynamics are more useful to model than the self-similar traffic itself.

Considerable work has been done on modeling of broadband and other data
traffic, in which two-parameter models that capture the mean and burstiness
of the traffic have proven to be quite adequate.  See [E.716] for a good
reference on this.  Much work has also been done on measurement and
characterization of voice traffic, and two-parameter models reflecting mean
and variance (the ratio of the variance to the mean is sometimes called the
peakedness parameter) of traffic have proven to be accurate models.

Here we reflect initial, two-parameter, multiservice traffic models, which
are manageable from a modeling and analysis aspect and which attempt to
capture essential aspects of data and voice traffic variability for purposes
of traffic engineering and QoS  methods.

Table 1.1
Traffic Models for Load Variations

For instantaneous traffic load variations, the load is typically modeled as
a stationary random process over a given period (normally within each hourly
period) characterized by a fixed mean and variance. From hour to hour, the
mean traffic loads are modeled as changing deterministically; for example,
according to their 20-day average values. From day to day, for a fixed hour,
the mean load can be modeled, for example, as a random variable having a
gamma distribution with a mean equal to the 20-day average load. From week
to week, the load variation is modeled as a random process in the network
design procedure. The random component of the realized week-to-week load is
the forecast error, which is equal to the forecast load minus the realized
load. Forecast error is accounted for in short-term capacity management.


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In traffic management, traffic load variations such as instantaneous
variations, hour-to-hour variations, day-to-day traffic variations, and
week-to-week variations are responded to in traffic management by
appropriately controlling number translation/routing, path selection,
routing table management, and/or QoS resource management. Traffic management
provides monitoring of network performance through collection and display of
traffic and performance data, and allows traffic management controls, such
as destination-address per-connection blocking, per-connection gapping,
routing table modification, and path selection/reroute controls, to be
inserted when circumstances warrant.  For example, a focused overload might
lead to application of connection gapping controls in which a connection
request to a particular destination address or set of addresses is admitted
only once every x seconds, and connections arriving after an accepted call
are rejected for the next x seconds.  In that way call gapping throttles the
calls and prevents overloading the network to a particular focal point.
Routing table modification and reroute control are illustrated in ANNEXs 2,
3, 5, and 7.

Capacity management must provide sufficient capacity to carry the expected
traffic variations so as to meet end-to-end blocking/delay objective levels.
Here the term blocking refers to the denial or non-admission of a call or
connection request, based for example on the lack of available resources on
a particular link (e.g., link bandwidth or queuing resources).  Traffic load
variations lead in direct measure to capacity increments and can be
categorized as (1) minute-to-minute instantaneous variations and associated
busy-hour traffic load capacity, (2) hour-to-hour variations and associated
multihour capacity, (3) day-to-day variations and associated day-to-day
capacity, and (4) week-to-week variations and associated reserve capacity.

Design methods within the capacity management procedure account for the mean
and variance of the within-the-hour variations of the offered and overflow
loads. For example, classical methods [e.g., Wil56] are used to size links
for these two parameters of load.  Multihour dynamic route design accounts
for the hour-to-hour variations of the load and, hour-to-hour capacity can
vary from zero to 20 percent or more of network capacity. Hour-to-hour
capacity can be reduced by multihour dynamic routing design models such as
the discrete event flow optimization, traffic load flow optimization, and
virtual trunking flow optimization models described in ANNEX 6.  As noted in
Table 1.1, capacity management excludes non-recurring traffic such as caused
by overloads (focused or general overloads), or failures.  This process is
described further in ANNEX 7.

It is known that some daily variations are systematic (for example, Monday
morning business traffic is usually higher than Friday morning); however, in
some day-to-day variation models these systematic changes are ignored and
lumped into the stochastic model. For instance, the traffic load between Los
Angeles and New Brunswick is very similar from one day to the next, but the
exact calling levels differ for any given day. This load variation can be
characterized in network design by a stochastic model for the daily
variation, which results in additional capacity called day-to-day capacity.
Day-to-day capacity is needed to meet the average blocking/delay objective
when the load varies according to the stochastic model.  Day-to-day capacity
is nonzero due to the nonlinearities in link blocking and/or link queuing
delay levels as a function of load.  When the load on a link fluctuates
about a mean value, because of day-to-day variation, the mean blocking/delay
is higher than the blocking/delay produced by the mean load. Therefore,
additional capacity is provided to maintain the blocking/delay probability
grade-of-service objective in the presence of day-to-day load variation.

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Typical day-to-day capacity required is 4--7 percent of the network cost for
medium to high day-to-day variations, respectively.  Reserve capacity, like
day-to-day capacity, comes about because load uncertainties---in this case
forecast errors---tend to cause capacity buildup in excess of the network
design that exactly matches the forecast loads. Reluctance to disconnect and
rearrange link and transport capacity contributes to this reserve capacity
buildup. At a minimum, the currently measured mean load is used to adjust
routing and capacity design, as needed.  In addition, the forecast-error
variance component in used in some models to build in so-called protective
capacity.  Reserve or protective capacity can provide a cushion against
overloads and failures, and generally benefits network performance.
However, provision for reserve capacity is not usually built into the
capacity management design process, but arises because of sound
administrative procedures.  These procedures attempt to minimize total cost,
including both network capital costs and operations costs.  Studies have
shown that reserve capacity in some networks to be in the range of 15 to 25
percent or more of network cost [FHH79].   This is further described in
ANNEXs 5 and 6.

1.6     Traffic Management Functions

In ANNEXs 2-5, traffic management functions are discussed:

a)      Call Routing Methods (ANNEX 2).  Call routing involves the
translation of a number or name to a routing address.  We describe how
number (or name) translation should result in the E.164 ATM end-system
addresses (AESA), network routing addresses (NRAs), and/or IP addresses.
These addresses are used for routing purposes and therefore must be carried
in the connection-setup information element (IE).

b)      Connection/Bearer-Path Routing Methods (ANNEX 2).  Connection or
bearer-path routing involves the selection of a path from the originating
node to the destination node in a network.  We discuss bearer-path selection
methods, which are categorized into the following four types: fixed routing
(FR), time-dependent routing (TDR), state-dependent routing (SDR), and
event-dependent routing (EDR).  These methods are associated with routing
tables, which consist of a route and rules to select one path from the route
for a given connection or bandwidth-allocation request.

c)      QoS Resource Management Methods (ANNEX 3).  QoS resource management
functions include class-of-service derivation, policy-based routing table
derivation, connection admission, bandwidth allocation, bandwidth
protection, bandwidth reservation, priority routing, priority queuing, and
other related resource management functions.

d)      Routing Table Management Methods (ANNEX 4).  Routing table
management information, such as topology update, status information, or
routing recommendations, is used for purposes of applying the routing table
design rules for determining path choices in the routing table.  This
information is exchanged between one node and another node, such as between
the ON and DN, for example, or between a node and a network element such as
a bandwidth-broker processor (BBP).  This information is used to generate
the routing table, and then the routing table is used to determine the path
choices used in the selection of a path.

e)      Dynamic Transport Routing Methods (ANNEX 5). Dynamic transport
routing combines with dynamic traffic routing to shift transport bandwidth
among node pairs and services through use of flexible transport switching

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technology, such as optical cross-connects (OXCs). Dynamic transport routing
offers advantages of simplicity of design and robustness to load variations
and network failures, and can provide automatic link provisioning, diverse
link routing, and rapid link restoration for improved transport capacity
utilization and performance under stress. OXCs can reconfigure logical
transport capacity on demand, such as for peak day traffic, weekly redesign
of link capacity, or emergency restoration of capacity under node or
transport failure.  MPLS control capabilities are proposed for the setup of
layer 2 logical transport links through OXCs [ARDC99].

1.7     Capacity Management Functions

In ANNEX 6, we discuss capacity management methods, as follows:
a)      Link Capacity Design Models.  These models find the optimum tradeoff
between traffic carried on a shortest network path (perhaps a direct link)
versus traffic carried on alternate (longer, less efficient) network paths.
b)      Shortest Path Selection Models.  These models enable the
determination of shortest paths in order to provide a more efficient and
flexible routing plan.
c)      Multihour Network Design Models.  Three models are described
including i) discrete event flow optimization (DEFO) models, ii) traffic
load flow optimization (TLFO) models, and iii) virtual trunking flow
optimization (VTFO) models.
d)      Day-to-day Load Variation Design Models.  These models describe
techniques for handling day-to-day variations in capacity design.
e)      Forecast Uncertainty/Reserve Capacity Design Models.  These models
describe the means for accounting for errors in projecting design traffic
loads in the capacity design of the network.

1.8     Traffic Engineering Operational Requirements

In ANNEX 7, we discuss traffic engineering operational requirements, as
follows:
a)      Traffic Management.  We discuss requirements for real-time
performance monitoring, network control, and work center functions.  The
latter includes automatic controls, manual controls, code controls, cancel
controls, reroute controls, peak-day controls, traffic management on peak
days, and interfaces to other work centers.
b)      Capacity Management - Forecasting.  We discuss requirements for load
forecasting, including configuration database functions, load aggregation,
basing, and projection functions, and load adjustment cycle and view of
business adjustment cycle.  We also discuss network design, work center
functions, and interfaces to other work centers.
c)      Capacity Management - Daily and Weekly Performance Monitoring.  We
discuss requirements for daily congestion analysis, study-week congestion
analysis, and study-period congestion analysis.
d)      Capacity Management - Short-Term Network Adjustment.  We discuss
requirements for network design, work center functions, and interfaces to
other work centers.
e)      Comparison of off-line (TDR) versus on-line (SDR/EDR) TE methods.
We contrast off-line TE methods, such as in a TDR-based network, with
on-line TE methods, such as in an SDR- or EDR-based network.

1.9     Traffic Engineering Modeling & Analysis

In ANNEXs 2-6 we use network models to illustrate the traffic engineering
methods developed in the ANNEXs.  The details of the models are presented in
each ANNEX in accordance with the TE functions being illustrated.

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In the draft, a full-scale 135-node national network node model is used
together with a multiservice traffic demand model to study various TE
scenarios and tradeoffs. Typical voice/ISDN traffic loads are used to model
the various network alternatives.  These voice/ISDN loads are further
segmented in the model into eight constant-bit-rate (CBR) virtual networks
(VNETs), including business voice, consumer voice, international voice in
and out, key-service voice, normal and key-service 64-kbps ISDN data, and
384-kbps ISDN data. The data services traffic model incorporates typical
traffic load patterns and comprises three additional VNET load patterns.
These include a) a variable bit rate real-time (VBR-RT) VNET, representing
services such as IP-telephony and compressed voice, b) a variable bit rate
non-real-time (VBR-NRT) VNET, representing services such as WWW multimedia
and credit card check, and c) an unassigned bit rate (UBR) VNET,
representing best-effort services such as email, voice mail, and file
transfer multimedia applications. The cost model represents typical
switching and transport costs, and illustrates the economies-of-scale for
costs projected for high capacity network elements in the future.

Many different alternatives and tradeoffs are examined in the models,
including:

1.      centralized  routing table control versus distributed control
2.      off-line, pre-planned (e.g.,TDR-based) routing table control versus
        on-line routing table control (e.g., SDR- or EDR-based)
3.      per-flow traffic management versus per-virtual-network (or
        per-traffic-trunk or per-bandwidth-pipe) traffic management
4.      sparse logical topology versus meshed logical topology
5.      FR versus TDR versus SDR versus EDR path selection
6.      multilink path selection versus two-link path selection
7.      path selection using local status information versus global status
information
8.      global status dissemination alternatives including status flooding,
distributed query for status, and centralized status in a bandwidth-broker
processor

Table 1.2 summarizes brief comparisons and observations, based on the
modeling, in each of the above alternatives and tradeoffs (further details
are contained in ANNEXs 2-6).

Table 1.2
Tradeoff Categories and Comparisons
(Based on Modeling in ANNEXs 2-6)

1.10    Conclusions/Recommendations

Following is a summary of the main conclusions/recommendations reached in
the draft.

1.10.1  Conclusions/Recommendations on Call Routing & Connections Routing
Methods (ANNEX 2)

*       In all cases of the TE methods being applied, network performance is
always better and usually substantially better than when no TE methods are
applied

*       Sparse-topology multilink-routing networks provide better overall
performance under overload than meshed-topology networks, but performance
under failure may favor the 2-link STT-EDR/DC-SDR meshed-topology options

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with more alternate routing choices.

*       State information as used by the SDR options provides essentially
equivalent performance to the EDR options.

*       Various path selection methods can interwork with each other in the
same network, as required for multi-vendor network operation.

*       EDR TE methods are shown to an important class of TE algorithms.
EDR TE methods are distinct from the TDR and SDR TE methods in how the paths
(e.g., MPLS label switched paths, or LSPs) are selected.  In the SDR TE
case, the available link bandwidth (based on LSA flooding of ALB
information) is typically used to compute the path.  In the EDR TE case, the
ALB information is not needed to compute the path, therefore the ALB
flooding does not need to take place (reducing the overhead).

*       EDR TE algorithms are adaptive and distributed in nature and
typically use learning models to find good paths for TE in a network. For
example, in a success-to-the-top (STT) EDR TE method, if the LSR-A to LSR-B
bandwidth needs to be modified, say increased by delta-BW, the primary LSP-p
is tried first.  If delta-BW is not available on one or more links of LSP-p,
then the currently successful LSP-s is tried next.  If delta-BW is not
available on one or more links of LSP-s, then a new LSP is searched by
trying additional candidate paths until a new successful LSP-n is found or
the candidate paths are exhausted.  LSP-n is then marked as the currently
successful path for the next time bandwidth needs to be modified.  The
performance of distributed EDR TE methods is shown to be equal to or better
than SDR methods, centralized or distributed.

*       While SDR TE models typically use available-link-bandwidth (ALB)
flooding for TE path selection, EDR TE methods do not require ALB flooding.
Rather, EDR TE methods typically search out capacity by learning models, as
in the STT method above.  ALB flooding can be very resource intensive, since
it requires link bandwidth to carry LSAs, processor capacity to process
LSAs, and the overhead can limit area/autonomous system (AS) size.  Modeling
results show EDR TE methods can lead to a large reduction in ALB flooding
overhead without loss of network throughput performance [as shown in ANNEX
4].

*       interdomain routing methods can be considered to extend the
intradomain call routing and connection routing concepts, such as flexible
path selection and per-class-of-service bandwidth selection, to routing
between network domains.

1.10.2  Conclusions/Recommendations on QoS Resource Management Methods
(ANNEX 3)

*       Bandwidth reservation is critical to the stable and efficient
performance of TE methods in a network, and to ensure the proper operation
of multiservice bandwidth allocation, protection, and priority treatment.

*       Per-VNET bandwidth allocation is essentially equivalent to per-flow
bandwidth allocation in network performance and efficiency.  Because of the
much lower routing table management overhead requirements, as discussed and
modeled in ANNEX 4, per-VNET bandwidth allocation is preferred to per-flow
allocation.

*       Single-area flat topologies exhibit better network performance and,

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as discussed and modeled in ANNEX 6, greater design efficiencies in
comparison with multi-area hierarchical topologies.   As illustrated in
ANNEX 4, larger administrative areas can be achieved through use of
EDR-based TE methods as compared to SDR-based TE methods.

*       QoS resource management is shown to be effective in achieving key
service, normal service, and best effort service differentiation.

*       Both MPLS QoS and bandwidth management and DiffServ priority queuing
management are important for ensuring that multiservice network performance
objectives are met under a range of network conditions.  Both mechanisms
operate together to ensure QoS resource allocation mechanisms (bandwidth
allocation, protection, and priority queuing) are achieved.

1.10.3  Conclusions/Recommendations on Routing Table Management Methods &
Requirements (ANNEX 4)

*       Because of the much lower routing table management overhead
requirements, per-VNET bandwidth allocation is preferred to per-flow
allocation. Per-VNET bandwidth allocation is essentially equivalent to
per-flow bandwidth allocation in network performance and efficiency, as
discussed in ANNEX 3.

*       Modeling results show EDR TE methods can lead to a large reduction
in ALB flooding overhead without loss of network throughput performance.
While SDR TE models typically use ALB flooding for TE path selection, EDR TE
methods do not require ALB flooding.  Rather, EDR TE methods typically
search out capacity by learning models, as in the STT method.  ALB flooding
can be very resource intensive, since it requires link bandwidth to carry
LSAs, processor capacity to process LSAs, and the overhead can limit
area/autonomous system (AS) size.

*       Because of lower routing table management overhead requirements,
larger administrative areas can be achieved through use of EDR-based TE
methods as compared to SDR-based TE methods. This can help achieve
single-area flat topologies which, as discussed in ANNEX 3, exhibit better
network performance and, as discussed in ANNEX 6, greater design
efficiencies in comparison with multi-area hierarchical topologies.

1.10.4  Conclusions/Recommendations on Dynamic Transport Routing Methods
(ANNEX 5)

*       Dynamic transport routing network design improves network
performance in comparison with fixed transport routing for all network
conditions simulated, which include abnormal and unpredictable traffic load
patterns.

*       The ability of the dynamic transport routing network design to
enhance network performance under failure arises from automatic
inter-backbone-router and access logical-transport-link diversity in
combination with the dynamic traffic routing and transport restoration of
logical transport links.

*       Higher network throughput and enhanced revenue should accrue from
deployment of a dynamic transport routing network, and at the same time
capital savings should result, as discussed in ANNEX 6.


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1.10.5  Conclusions/Recommendations on Capacity Management Methods (ANNEX 6)

*       Discrete event flow optimization (DEFO) design models are shown to
be able to capture very complex routing behavior through the equivalent of a
simulation model provided in software in the routing design module. By this
means, very complex routing networks have been designed by the model, which
include all of the routing methods discussed in ANNEX 2 (FR, TDR, SDR, and
EDR methods) and the multiservice QoS resource allocation models discussed
in ANNEX 3.

*       Capital cost advantages may be attributed to the sparse topology
options, such as the multilink STT-EDR/DC-SDR/DP-SDR options, but may not be
significant compared to operational costs, and are subject to the particular
switching and transport cost assumptions. Operational issues are further
detailed in ANNEX 7.

*       Voice and data integration can provide capital cost advantages, but
may be more important in achieving operational simplicity and cost
reduction.

*       Single-area flat topologies exhibit greater design efficiencies and,
as discussed and modeled in ANNEX 3, better network performance in
comparison with multi-area hierarchical topologies.   As illustrated in
ANNEX 4, larger administrative areas can be achieved through use of
EDR-based TE methods as compared to SDR-based TE methods.

*       Dynamic transport routing networks achieve capital savings by
concentrating capacity on fewer, high-capacity physical fiber links and, as
discussed in ANNEX 5, achieve higher network throughput and enhanced revenue
by their ability to flexibly allocate bandwidth on the logical transport
links serving the access and inter-node traffic.

*       If IP-telephony takes hold and a significant portion of voice calls
use voice compression technology, this could lead to more efficient
networks.

1.10.6  Conclusions/Recommendations on TE Operational Requirements (ANNEX 7)

*       Monitoring of traffic and performance data is required for traffic
management, capacity forecasting, daily and weekly performance monitoring,
and short-term network adjustment.

*       Traffic management is required which provides monitoring of network
performance through collection and display of real-time traffic and
performance data and allows traffic management controls such as code blocks,
connection request gapping, and reroute controls to be inserted when
circumstances warrant.

*       Capacity management is required which includes capacity forecasting,
daily and weekly performance monitoring, and short-term network adjustment.

*       Forecasting is required which operates over a multiyear forecast
interval and drives network capacity expansion.

*       Daily and weekly performance monitoring is required to identify any
service problems in the network. If service problems are detected,
short-term network adjustment can include routing table updates and, if
necessary, short-term capacity additions to alleviate service problems.

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Updated routing tables are sent to the switching systems either directly or
via an automated routing update system.

*       Short-term capacity additions are required, but as an exception,
whereas most capacity changes are normally forecasted, planned, scheduled,
and managed over a period of months or a year or more.

*       Network design is required, which is embedded in capacity management
and includes routing design and capacity design.

*       Network planning is required, which includes longer-term node
planning and transport network planning, and which operates over a horizon
of months to years to plan and implement new node and transport capacity.


1.11 Authors' Addresses

Gerald R. Ash
AT&T Labs
Room MT  D5-2A01
200 Laurel Avenue
Middletown, NJ 07748
Phone: 732-420-4578
Fax:   732-368-8659
Email: gash@att.com


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[A00]  Armitage, G., Quality of Service in IP Networks: Foundations for a
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[AAFJLLS00]  Ash, G. R., Ashwood-Smith, P., Fedyk, D., Jamoussi, B., Lee,
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[C97]  Crovella, M. E., Self-Similarity in WWW Traffic: Evidence and
Possible Causes, IEEE Transactions on Networking, December 1997.

[CED91] Chao, C-W., Eslambolchi, H., Dollard, P., Nguyen, L., Weythman, J.,
"FASTAR---A Robust System for Fast DS3 Restoration," Proceedings of GLOBECOM
1991, Phoenix, Arizona, December 1991, pp. 1396--1400.

[CDFFSV99]  Callon, R., Doolan, P., Feldman, N., Fredette, A., Swallow, G.,
Viswanathan, A., IETF Network Working Group Draft, A Framework for
Multiprotocol Label Switching, draft-ietf-mpls-framework-05.txt, September
1999.

[CHY00]  Chaudhuri, S., Hjalmtysson, G., Yates, J., Control of Lightpaths in
an Optical Network, IETF Draft draft-chaudhuri-ip-olxc-control-00.txt,
February 2000.

[COM 2-39-E]  ANNEX, Draft New Recommendation E.ip, Report of Joint Meeting
of Questions 1/2 and 10/2, Torino, Italy, July 1998.

[D99]  Dvorak, C., IP-Related Impacts on End-to-End Transmission
Performance, ITU-T Liaison to Study Group 2, Temporary Document TD GEN-22,
Geneva Switzerland, May 1999.

[Dij59] Dijkstra, E. W., "A Note on Two Problems in Connection with Graphs,"
Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 1, 1959, pp. 269--271.

[DN99]  Dianda, R. B., Noorchashm, M., Bandwidth Modification for UNI, PNNI,
AINI, and BICI, ATM Forum Technical Working Group, April 1999.

[DPW99]  Doverspike, R. D., Phillips, S., Westbrook, J. R., Future Transport
Network Architectures, IEEE Communications Magazine, August 1999.

[DR00]  Davie, B. S., Rekhter, Y., MPLS: Technology and Applications, Morgan
Kaufmann Publishers, May 2000.

[DY00]  Doverspike, R., Yates, J., Challenges for MPLS Protocols in the
Optical Network Control Plane, submitted for publication.

[E.41IP]  ITU-T Draft Recommendation, Framework for the Traffic Management
of IP-Based Networks, March 2000.

[E.106]  ITU-T Recommendation, Description of International Emergency
Preference System (IEPS).

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[E.164]  ITU-T Recommendation, The International Telecommunications
Numbering Plan.

[E.170]  ITU-T Recommendation, Traffic Routing.

[E.177]  ITU-T Recommendation, B-ISDN Routing.

[E.191]  ITU-T Recommendation, B-ISDN Numbering and Addressing, October
1996.

[E.350]  ITU-T Recommendation, Dynamic Routing Interworking.

[E.351]  ITU-T Recommendation, Routing of Multimedia Connections Across
TDM-, ATM-, and IP-Based Networks.

[E.352]  ITU-T Recommendation, Routing Guidelines for Efficient Routing
Methods.

[E.353]  ITU-T Draft Recommendation, Routing of Calls when Using
International Network Routing Addresses

[E.412]  ITU-T Recommendation,  Network Management Controls.

[E.525]  ITU-T Recommendation, Designing Networks to Control GOS, May 1992.

[E.529]  ITU-T Recommendation,  Network Dimensioning using End-to-End GOS
Objectives, May 1997.

[E.600]  ITU-T Recommendation,  Terms and Definitions of Traffic
Engineering, March 1993.

[E.651]  ITU-T Recommendation, Reference Connections for Traffic Engineering
of IP Access Networks.

[E.716]  User Demand Modeling in Broadband-ISDN, October 1996.

[E.734]  ITU-T Recommendation, Methods for Allocation and Dimensioning
Intelligent Network (IN) Resources, October 1996.

[E.735]  ITU-T Recommendation, Framework for Traffic Control and
Dimensioning in B-ISDN, May 1997.

[E.736]  ITU-T Recommendation, Methods for Cell Level Traffic Control in the
B-ISDN, May 1997.

[E.737]  ITU-T Recommendation, Dimensioning Methods for B-ISDN, May 1997.

[E.800]  ITU-T Recommendation, Terms and Definitions Related to Quality of
Service and Network Performance Including Dependability, August 1994.

[E.TE]  ITU-T Draft Recommendation, Traffic Engineering and QoS Methods for
IP-, ATM- and TDM-Based Multiservice Networks, March 2000.

[ETSIa]  ETSI Secretariat, Telecommunications and Internet Protocol
Harmonization over Networks (TIPHON); Naming and Addressing; Scenario 2,
DTS/TIPHON-04002 v1.1.64, 1998

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[ETSIb]  ETSI STF, Request for Information (RFI): Requirements for Very
Large Scale E.164 -> IP Database, TD35, ETSI EP TIPHON 9, Portland,
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[ETSIc]  TD290, ETSI Working Party Numbering and Routing, Proposal to Study
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[F00]  Faltstrom, P., E.164 Number and DNS, IETF Draft
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[FASOAKCGRBASEWDH00]  Fan, Y., Ashwood-Smith, P., Sharma, V., Ash, G. R.,
Krishnaswamy, M., Cao, Y., Girish, M. K., Ruck, H. M., Bernstein, S.,
Ahluwalia, S., Sjostrand, H., Eriksson, K., Wang, L., Doria, A., Hummel, H.,
Extensions to CR-LDP and RSVP-TE for Optical Path Set-up, IETF Draft
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[FIA99]  Fujita, N., Iwata, A., Ash, G. R., Crankback Routing Extensions for
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Congestion Avoidance, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 1993.

[FO00]  Folts, H., Ohno, H., Functional Requirements for Priority Services
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[FRC98]  Feldman, A., Rexford, J., Caceres, R., Efficient Policies for
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Communications Transmitting at 5.3 and 6.3 kbit/s, March 1996.


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[G99a] Glossbrenner, K., Elements Relevant to Routing of ATM Connections,
ITU-T Liaison to Study Group 2, Temporary Document 1/2-8, Geneva
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[GJFALF99]  Ghanwani, A., Jamoussi, B., Fedyk, D., Ashwood-Smith, P., Li,
L., Feldman, N.,  Traffic Engineering Standards in IP Networks using MPLS,
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[GWA97]  Gray, E., Wang, Z., Armitage, G., Generic Label Distribution
Protocol Specification, IETF Draft, draft-gray-mpls-generic-ldp-spec-00.txt,
November 1997.

[GR99]  Greene, N., Ramalho, M., Media Gateway Control Protocol Architecture
and Requirements, IETF Draft, draft-ietf-megaco-reqs-00.txt, January 1999.

[H95]  Huitema, C., Routing in the Internet, Prentice Hall, 1995.

[H97]  Halabi, B., Internet Routing Architectures, Cisco Press, 1997.

[H99]  Heyman, D. P., Estimation of MMPP Models of IP Traffic, unpublished
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[H.225.0] ITU-T Recommendation, Media Stream Packetization and
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[H.245]  ITU-T Recommendation, Control Protocol for Multimedia
Communication, March 1996.

[H.246]  Draft ITU-T Recommendation, Interworking of H.Series Multimedia
Terminals with H.Series Multimedia Terminals and Voice/Voiceband Terminals
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[H.323]  ITU-T Recommendation, Visual Telephone Systems and Equipment for
Local Area Networks which Provide a Non-Guaranteed Quality of Service,
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[HCC00]  Huston, G., Cerf, V. G., Chapin, L., Internet Performance Survival
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[HSMOA00]  Huang, C., Sharma, V., Makam, S., Owens, K., A Path
Protection/Restoration Mechanism for MPLS Networks,
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[HM00]  Heyman, D. P., Mang, X., Why Modeling Broadband Traffic is
Difficult, and Potential Ways of Doing It, Fifth INFORMS Telecommunications
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[HSMO00]  Huang, C., Sharma, V., Makam, S., Owens, K., A Path
Protection/Restoration Mechanism for MPLS Networks,
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[HSMOA00]  Huang, C., Sharma, V., Makam, S., Owens, K., Akyol, B.,
Extensions to RSVP-TE for MPLS Path Protection,
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[HY00]  Hjalmtysson, G., Yates, J., Smart Routers - Simple Optics, An
Architecture for the Optical Internet, submitted for publication.

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[J00]  Jamoussi, B., Editor, Constraint-Based LSP Setup using LDP, IETF
draft-ietf-mpls-cr-ldp-03.txt, September 2000.

[K99]  Kilkki, K., Differentiated Services for the Internet, Macmillan,
1999.

[KAHRSYB00]  Kankkunen, A., Ash, G., Hopkins, J., Rosen, B., Stacey, D.,
Yelundur, A., Berger, L., Voice over MPLS Framework, IETF Draft
draft-kankkunen-vompls-fw-00.txt, March 2000.

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Technical Note Numbers 36--73, Defense Communications Engineering Center,
System Engineering Facility, Reston, Virginia, July 1973.

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Featuring the Internet, Addison-Wesley, 2000.

[KR00a]  Kompella, K., Rekhter, Y., LSP Hierarchy with MPLS TE, Internet
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[L99]  Li, T., MPLS and the Evolving Internet Architecture, IEEE
Communications Magazine, December 1999.

[LRACJ00]  Luciani, J., Rajagopalan, B., Awduche, D., Cain, B., Jamoussi,
B., IP over Optical Networks - A Framework, IETF Draft
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[LS00]  Lazer, M., Strand, J., Some Routing Constraints, Optical
Interworking Forum contribution OIF2000.109, May 2000.

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Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic, IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking, February 1994.

[LDVKCH00]  Le Faucheur, F.,  Davari, S., Vaananen, P., Krishnan, R.,
Cheval, P., Heinanen, J., MPLS Support of Differentiated Services, IETF
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[M99]  Moy, J., OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol, Addison
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[M99a]  McDysan, D., QoS and Traffic Management in IP and ATM Networks,
McGraw-Hill, 1999.

[MRMRBMSOAPLFEK00]  Marshall, W., Ramakrishnan, K., Miller, E., Russell, G.,
Beser, B., Mannette, M., Steinbrenner, K., Oran, D., Andreasen, F., Pickens,
J., Lalwaney, P., Fellows, J., Evans, D., Kelly, K., Architectural
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[NWRH99]  Neilson, R., Wheeler, J., Reichmeyer, F., Hares, S., A Discussion
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[PL99]  Faltstrom, P., Larson, B., E.164 Number and DNS, IETF
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[Q.71]  ITU-T Recommendation, ISDN Circuit Mode Switched Bearer Services.

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[Q.765.5]  ITU-T Recommendation, Application Transport Mechanism - Bearer
Independent Call Control (BICC), December 1999.

[Q.1901]  ITU-T Recommendation, Bearer Independent Call Control Protocol,
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[Q.2761]  ITU-T Recommendation, Broadband Integrated Services Digital
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[R99]  Roberts, J. W., Engineering for Quality of Service, Chapter appearing
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Internet Architecture: an Overview, June 1994.

[RFC1889]  Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., Jacobson, V., RTP: A
Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications, January 1996.

[RFC1940] Estrin, D., Li, T., Rekhter, Y., Varadhan, K., Zappala, D., Source
Demand Routing: Packet Format and            Forwarding Specification
(Version 1), May 1996.

[RFC2205]  Bradem. R., Zhang, L., Berson, S., Herzog, S., Jamin, S.,
Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) - Version 1 Functional Specification,
September 1997.

[RFC2328]  Moy, J, OSPF Version 2, April 1998.

[RFC2332]  Luciani, J., Katz, D., Piscitello, D., Cole, B., Doraswamy, N.,
NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP), April 1998.

[RFC2386]  Crawley, E., Nair, R., Rajagopalan, B., Sandick, H., A Framework
for QoS-based Routing in the Internet, August 1998.

[RFC2475] Blake, S., Black, D., Carlson, M., Davies, E., Wang, Z., Weiss,
W., An Architecture for Differentiated Services, December 1998.

[RFC2543]  Handley, M., Schulzrinne, H., Schooler, E. Rosenberg, J. SIP:
Session Initiation Protocol, March 1999.

[RFC2702]  Awduche, D., Malcolm, J., Agogbua, J., O'Dell, M., McManus, J.
Requirements for Traffic Engineering over MPLS, September 1999.

[RFC2805]  Greene, N., Ramalho, M., Rosen, B., Media Gateway Control
Protocol Architecture and Requirements, April 2000.

[RL00]  Rekhter, Y., Li, T., A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4), IETF Draft
draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-10.txt, April 2000.

[RO00]  Roberts, J. W., Oueslati-Boulahia, S., Quality of Service by Flow

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Aware Networking, work in progress.

[RVC99]  Rosen, E., Viswanathan, A., Callon, R., Multiprotocol Label
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[S99]  Swallow, G., MPLS Advantages for Traffic Engineering, IEEE
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[SC00]  Strand, J., Chiu, A. L., What's Different About the Optical Layer
Control Plane?, submitted for publication.

[SL99]  Schwefel, H-P., Lipsky, L., Performance Results for Analytic Models
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[TRQ3000]  Supplement to ITU-T Recommendation Q.1901, Operation of the
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[TRQ3010]  Supplement to ITU-T Recommendation Q.1901, Operation of the
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[TRQ3020]  Supplement to ITU-T Recommendation Q.1901, Operation of the
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[WBP00]  Wright, G., Ballarte, S., Pearson, T., CR-LDP Extensions for

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Interworking with RSVP-TE, Internet Draft
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MPLS, draft-wright-policy-mpls-00.txt, March 2000.

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[XHBN00]  Xiao, X., Hannan, A., Bailey, B.,  Ni, L. M., Traffic Engineering
with MPLS in the Internet, IEEE Network Magazine, March/April 2000.

[XN99]  Xiao, X., Ni, L. M., Internet QoS: A Big Picture, IEEE Network
Magazine, March/April, 1999.

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[YR99]  Yates, J. M., Rumsewicz, M. P. Lacey, J. P. R., Wavelength
Converters in Dynamically-Reconfigurable WDM Networks, IEEE Communications
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[ZSSC97]  Zhang, Sanchez, Salkewicz, Crawley, Quality of Service Extensions
to OSPF or Quality of Service Route First Routing (QOSPF), IETF Draft,
draft-shang-qos-ospf-01.txt, September 1997.

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ANNEX 2
Call Routing & Connection Routing Methods

Traffic Engineering & QoS Methods for IP-, ATM-, & TDM-Based Multiservice
Networks


2.1     Introduction

In the draft we assume the separation of "call routing" and signaling for
call establishment from "connection (or bearer-path) routing" and signaling
for bearer-channel establishment.  Call routing protocols primarily
translate a number or a name, which is given to the network as part of a
call setup, to a routing address needed for the connection (bearer-path)
establishment.   Call routing protocols are described for example in
[Q.2761] for the Broadband ISDN Used Part (B-ISUP) call signaling,
[ATM990048] for bearer-independent call control (BICC), or virtual trunking,
call signaling, [H.323] for H.323 call signaling, [GR99] for the media
gateway control [RFC2805] call signaling, and in [HSSR99] for the session
initiation protocol (SIP) call signaling. Connection routing protocols
include for example [Q.2761] for B-ISUP signaling, [ATM960055] for PNNI
signaling, [ATM960061] for UNI signaling, [DN99] for switched virtual path
(SVP) signaling, and [J00] for MPLS constraint-based routing label
distribution protocol (CRLDP) signaling.

A specific connection or bearer-path routing method is characterized by the
routing table used in the method.  The routing table consists of a set of
paths and rules to select one path from the route for a given connection
request.  When a connection request arrives at its originating node (ON),
the ON implementing the routing method executes the path selection rules
associated with the routing table for the connection to determine a selected
path from among the path candidates in the route for the connection request.
In a particular routing method, the path selected for the connection request
is governed by the connection routing, or path selection, rules.  Various
path selection methods are discussed: fixed routing (FR) path selection,
time-dependent routing (TDR) path selection, state-dependent routing (SDR)
path selection, and event-dependent routing (EDR) path selection.

2.2     Call Routing Methods

Call routing entails number (or name) translation to a routing address,
which is then used for connection establishment.  Routing addresses can
consist, for example, of a) E.164 ATM end system addresses (AESAs) [E.191],
b) network routing addresses (NRAs) [E.353], and/or c) IP addresses [S94].
As discussed in ANNEX 4, a TE requirement is the need for carrying
E.164-AESA addresses, NRAs, and IP addresses in the connection-setup
information element (IE).  In that case, E.164-AESA addresses, NRAs, and IP
addresses become the standard addressing method for interworking across IP-,
ATM-, and TDM-based networks.  Another TE requirement is that a call
identification code (CIC) be carried in the call-control and bearer-control
connection-setup IEs in order to correlate the call-control setup with the
bearer-control setup [Q.1901, ATM990048].  Carrying these additional
parameters in the Signaling System 7 (SS7) ISDN User Part (ISUP)
connection-setup IEs is referred to as the bearer independent call control
(BICC) protocol.

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addresses, NRAs, and/or IP addresses.  NRA formats are covered in [E.353],
and IP-address formats in [S94].  The AESA address has a 20-byte format as
shown in Figure 2.1a below [E.191].

Figure 2.1a  AESA Address STructure

The IDP is the initial domain part and the DSP is the domain specific part.
The IDP is further subdivided into the AFI and IDI.  The IDI is the initial
domain identifier and can contain the 15-digit E.164 address if the AFI is
set to 45. AFI is the authority and format identifier and determines what
kind of addressing method is followed, and based on the 1 octet AFI value,
the length of the IDI and DSP fields can change.  The E.164-AESA address is
used to determine the path to the destination endpoint.  E.164-AESA
addressing for B-ISDN services is supported in ATM networks using PNNI,
through use of the above AESA format.  In this case the E.164 part of the
AESA address occupies the 8 octet IDI, and the 11 octet DSP can be used at
the discretion of the network operator (perhaps for sub-addresses).  The
above AESA structure also supports AESA DCC (data country code) and AESA ICD
(international code designator) addressing formats.

Within the IP network, routing is performed using IP addresses.  Translation
databases, such as based on domain name system (DNS) technology [F00], are
used to translate the E.164 numbers/names for calls to IP addresses for
routing over the IP network.  The IP address is a 4-byte address structure
as shown below:

Figure 2.1b  IP Address Structure

There are five classes of IP addresses. Different classes have different
field lengths for the network identification field.  Classless inter-domain
routing (CIDR) allows blocks of addresses to be given to service providers
in such a manner as to provide efficient address aggregation.  This is
accompanied by capabilities in the BGP4.0 protocol for efficient address
advertisements [RL00, S94].

2.3     Connection (Bearer-Path) Routing Methods

Connection routing is characterized by the routing table used in the method
and rules to select one path from the route for a given connection or
bandwidth-allocation request.  When a connection/bandwidth-allocation
request is initiated by an ON, the ON implementing the routing method
executes the path selection rules associated with the routing table for the
connection/bandwidth-allocation to find an admissible path from among the
paths in the route that satisfies the connection/bandwidth-allocation
request.  In a particular routing method, the selected path is determined
according to the rules associated with the routing table.  In a network with
originating connection/bandwidth-allocation control, the ON maintains
control of the connection/bandwidth-allocation request.  If
crankback/bandwidth-not-available is used, for example, at a via node (VN),
the preceding node maintains control of the connection/bandwidth-allocation
request even if the request is blocked on all the links outgoing from the
VN.

Here we are discussing network-layer connection routing (sometimes referred
to as "layer-3" routing), as opposed to the link-layer
logical-transport-link ("layer-2") routing or physical-layer ("layer-1")
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"logical-transport-link."  In ANNEX 5 we address logical-transport-link
routing.

The network-layer (layer-3) connection routing methods addressed include
those discussed in

*       Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) for IP-based routing methods,
*       User-to-Network Interface (UNI), Private Network-to-Network
Interface (PNNI), ATM Inter-Network Interface (AINI), and Bandwidth Modify
for ATM-based routing methods, and
*       Recommendations E.170, E.350, and E.351 for TDM-based routing
methods.

In an IP network, logical links called traffic trunks can be defined which
consist of MPLS label switched paths (LSPs) between the IP nodes.  Traffic
trunks are used to allocate the bandwidth of the logical transport links to
various node pairs.  In an ATM network, logical links called virtual paths
(VPs) (the equivalent of traffic trunks) can be defined between the ATM
nodes, and VPs can be used to allocate the bandwidth of the logical
transport links to various node pairs.  In a TDM network, the logical
transport links consist of trunk groups between the TDM nodes.

A sparse logical transport link network is typically used with IP and ATM
technology, as illustrated in Figure 2.2, and FR, TDR, SDR, and EDR can be
used in combination with multilink shortest path selection.

Figure 2.2  Sparse Logical Network Topology with Connections Routed on
            Multilink Paths

A meshed logical-transport-link network is typically used with TDM
technology, but can be used also with IP or ATM technology as well, and
selected paths are normally limited to 1 or 2 logical transport links, or
trunk groups, as illustrated in Figure 2.3.

Figure 2.3  Mesh Logical Network Topology with Connections Routed on
            1- and 2-Link Paths

Paths may be set up on individual connections (or "per flow") for each call
request, such as on a switched virtual circuits (SVC).  Paths may also be
set up for bandwidth-allocation requests associated with "bandwidth pipes"
or traffic trunks, such as on switched virtual paths (SVPs) in ATM-based
networks or constraint-based routing label switched paths (CRLSPs) in
IP-based networks. Paths are determined by (normally proprietary) algorithms
based on the network topology and reachable address information.  These
paths can cross multiple peer groups in ATM-based networks, and multiple
autonomous systems (ASs) in IP-based networks.  An ON may select a path from
the routing table based on the routing rules and the QoS resource management
criteria, described in ANNEX 3, which must be satisfied on each
logical-transport-link in the path.  If a link is not allowed based on the
QoS criteria, then a release with crankback/bandwidth-not-available
parameter is used to signal that condition to the ON in order to return the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request to the ON, which may then select an
alternate path. In addition to controlling bandwidth allocation, the QoS
resource management procedures can check end-to-end transfer delay, delay
variation, and transmission quality considerations such as loss, echo, and
noise.

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When source routing is used, setup of a connection/bandwidth-allocation
request is achieved by having the ON identify the entire selected path
including all VNs and DN in the path in a designated-transit-list (DTL) or
explicit-route (ER) parameter in the connection-setup IE.  If the QoS or
traffic parameters cannot be realized at any of the VNs in the connection
setup request, then the VN generates a crankback
(CBK)/bandwidth-not-available (BNA) parameter in the connection-release IE
which allows a VN to return control of the connection request to the ON for
further alternate routing.  In ANNEX 4, the DTL/ER and CBK/BNA elements are
identified as being required for interworking across IP-, ATM-, and
TDM--based networks.

As noted earlier, connection routing, or path selection, methods are
categorized into the following four types: fixed routing (FR),
time-dependent routing (TDR), state-dependent routing (SDR), and
event-dependent routing (EDR).  We discuss each of these methods in the
following paragraphs.  Examples of each of these path selection methods are
illustrated in Figures 2.4a and 2.4b and discussed in the following
sections.

Figure 2.4a TDR Dynamic Path Selection Methods

Figure 2.4b EDR & SDR Dynamic Path Selection Methods

Dynamic routing allows routing tables to be changed dynamically, either in
an off-line, preplanned, time-varying manner, as in TDR, or on-line, in real
time, as in SDR or EDR.  With off-line, pre-planned TDR path selection
methods, routing patterns contained in routing tables might change every
hour or at least several times a day to respond to measured hourly shifts in
traffic loads, and in general TDR routing tables change with a time constant
normally greater than a call/traffic-flow holding time. A typical TDR
routing method may change routing tables every hour, which is longer than a
typical voice call/traffic-flow holding time of a few minutes. Three
implementations of TDR dynamic path selection are illustrated in Figure
2.4a, which shows multilink path routing, 2-link path routing, and
progressive routing.

TDR routing tables are preplanned, preconfigured, and recalculated perhaps
each week within the capacity management network design function.  Real-time
dynamic path selection does not depend on precalculated routing tables.
Rather, the node or centralized bandwidth broker senses the immediate
traffic load and if necessary searches out new paths through the network
possibly on a per-traffic-flow basis.  With real-time path selection
methods, routing tables change with a time constant on the order of or less
than a call/traffic-flow holding time. As illustrated in Figure 2.4b,
on-line, real-time path selection methods include EDR and SDR.

2.4     Hierarchical Fixed Routing (FR) Path Selection

Hierarchical fixed routing (FR) is an important routing topology employed in
all types of networks, including IP-, ATM-, and TDM-based networks.  In
IP-based networks, there is often a hierarchical relationship among
different "areas", or sub-networks. Hierarchical multi-domain (or multi-area
or multi-autonomous-system) topologies are normally used with IP routing
protocols (OSPF, BGP) and ATM routing protocols (PNNI), as well as within
almost all TDM-based network routing topologies.

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Figure 2.4c Hierachical Fixed Routing Path Selection Methods
            (2-Level Hierarchical Network)

For example, in Figure 2.4c, BB1 and BB2 could be backbone nodes in a
"backbone area", and AN1 and AN2 could be access nodes in separate "access
areas" distinct from the backbone area.  Routing between the areas follows a
hierarchical routing pattern, while routing within an area follows an
interior gateway protocol (IGP), such as OSPF plus MPLS.  Similarly, in
ATM-based networks the same concept exists, but here the "areas" are called
"peer-groups", and for example, the IGP used within peer-groups could be
PNNI.  In TDM-based networks, the routing between sub-networks, for example,
metropolitan-area-networks and long-distance networks, is normally
hierarchical, as in IP- and ATM-based networks, and the IGP in TDM-based
networks could be either hierarchical or dynamic routing.  We now discuss
more specific attributes and methods for hierarchical FR path selection.

In a FR method, a routing pattern is fixed for a connection request.  A
typical example of fixed routing is a conventional, TDM-based, hierarchical
alternate routing pattern where the route and route selection sequence are
determined on a preplanned basis and maintained over a long period of time.
Hierarchical FR is illustrated below.  FR is more efficiently applied,
however, when the network is nonhierarchical, or flat, as compared to the
hierarchical structure [A98].

The aim of hierarchical fixed routing is to carry as much traffic as is
economically feasible over direct links between pairs of nodes low in the
hierarchy. This is accomplished by application of routing procedures to
determine where sufficient load exists to justify high-usage
logical-transport-links, and then by application of alternate-routing
principles that effectively pool the capacities of high-usage links with
those of final links, to the end that all traffic is carried efficiently.

The routing of connection requests in a hierarchical network involves an
originating ladder, a terminating ladder, and links interconnecting the two
ladders.  In a two-level network, for example, the originating ladder is the
final link from lower level-1 node to the upper level-2 node, and the
terminating ladder is the final link from upper level-2 node to the lower
level-1 node.  Links AN1-BB2, AN2-BB1, and BB1--BB2 in Figure 2.4c are
examples of interladder links.

The identification of the proper interladder link for the routing of a given
connection request identifies the originating ladder "exit" point and the
terminating ladder "entry" point. Once these exit and entry points are
identified and the intraladder links are known, a first-choice path from
originating to terminating location can be determined.

Various levels of traffic concentration are used to achieve an appropriate
balance between transport and switching. The generally preferred routing
sequence for the AN1 to AN2 connections is

1.      A connection request involving no via nodes: path AN1-AN2 (if the
link existed).

2.      A connection request involving one via node: path AN1-BB2-AN2,
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3.      A connection request involving two via nodes: path AN1-BB1-BB2-AN2

This procedure provides only the first-choice interladder link from AN1 to
AN2.  Connection requests from AN2 to AN1 often route differently. To
determine the AN2-to-AN1 route requires reversing the diagram, making
AN2-BB2 the originating ladder and AN1-BB1 the terminating ladder. In Figure
2.4c the preferred path from AN2 to AN1 is AN2-AN1, AN2-BB1-AN1,
AN2-BB2-AN1, and AN2-BB2-BB1-AN1, in that order.  The alternate path for any
high-usage link is the path the node-to-node traffic load between the nodes
would follow if the high-usage link did not exist. In Figure 2.4c, this is
AN2-BB1-AN1.

2.5     Time-Dependent Routing (TDR) Path Selection

TDR methods are a type of dynamic routing in which the routing tables are
altered at a fixed point in time during the day or week.  TDR routing tables
are determined on an off-line, preplanned basis and are implemented
consistently over a time period.  The TDR routing tables are determined
considering the time variation of traffic load in the network, for example
based on measured hourly load patterns. Several TDR time periods are used to
divide up the hours on an average business day and weekend into contiguous
routing intervals sometimes called load set periods.  Typically, the TDR
routing tables used in the network are coordinated by taking advantage of
noncoincidence of busy hours among the traffic loads.

In TDR, the routing tables are preplanned and designed off-line using a
centralized bandwidth broker, which employs a TDR network design model. Such
models are discussed in ANNEX 6. The off-line computation determines the
optimal routes from a very large number of possible alternatives, in order
to maximize network throughput and/or minimize the network cost.  The
designed routing tables are loaded and stored in the various nodes in the
TDR network, and periodically recomputed and updated (e.g., every week) by
the bandwidth broker.  In this way an ON does not require additional network
information to construct TDR routing tables, once the routing tables have
been loaded.  This is in contrast to the design of routing tables on-line in
real time, such as in the SDR and EDR methods described below.  Paths in the
TDR routing table may consist of time varying routing choices and use a
subset of the available paths.  Paths used in various time periods need not
be the same.

Paths in the TDR routing table may consist of the direct link, a 2-link path
through a single VN, or a multiple-link path through multiple VNs.  Path
routing implies selection of an entire path between originating and
terminating nodes before a connection is actually attempted on that path. If
a connection on one link in a path is blocked (e.g., because of insufficient
bandwidth), the connection request then attempts another complete path.
Implementation of such a routing method can be done through control from the
originating node, plus a multiple-link crankback capability to allow paths
of two, three, or more links to be used.  Crankback is an
information-exchange message capability that allows a connection request
blocked on a link in a path to return to the originating node for further
alternate routing on other paths.  Path-to-path routing is nonhierarchical
and allows the choice of the most economical paths rather than being
restricted to hierarchical paths.

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consist of simple sequential routing.  In the sequential method all traffic
in a given time period is offered to a single route, and lets the first path
in the route overflow to the second path which overflows to the third path,
and so on.  Thus, traffic is routed sequentially from path to path, and the
route is allowed to change from hour to hour to achieve the preplanned
dynamic, or time varying, nature of the TDR method.

Other TDR path selection rules can employ probabilistic techniques to select
each path in the route and thus influence the realized flows.  One such
method of implementing TDR multilink path selection is to allocate fractions
of the traffic to routes and to allow the fractions to vary as a function of
time. One approach is cyclic path selection, illustrated in Figure 2.4a,
which has as its first route (1, 2, ..., M), where the notation (i, j, k)
means that all traffic is offered first to path i, which overflows to path
j, which overflows to path k. The second route of a cyclic route choice is a
cyclic permutation of the first route: (2, 3, ..., M, 1). The third route is
likewise (3, 4, ..., M, 1, 2), and so on. This approach has computational
advantages because its cyclic structure requires considerably fewer
calculations in the design model than does a general collection of paths.
The route congestion level of cyclic routes are identical; what varies from
route to route is the proportion of flow on the various links.

Two-link TDR path selection is illustrated in Figure 2.4a.  An example
implementation is 2-link sequential TDR (2S-TDR) path selection.  By using
the crankback signal, 2S-TDR limits path connections to at most two links,
and, in meshed network topologies, such TDR 2-link sequential path selection
allows nearly as much network utilization and performance improvement as TDR
multilink path selection.  This is because in the design of multilink path
routing in meshed networks, about 98 percent of the traffic is routed on
one- and 2-link paths, even though paths of greater length are allowed.
Because of switching costs, paths with one or two links are usually less
expensive than paths with more links. Therefore, as illustrated in Figure
2.4a, 2-link path routing uses the simplifying restriction that paths can
have only one or two links, which requires only single-link crankback to
implement and uses no common links as is possible with multilink path
routing. Alternative 2-link path selection methods include the cyclic
routing method described above and sequential routing.

In sequential routing, all traffic in a given hour is offered to a single
route, and the first path is allowed to overflow to the second path, which
overflows to the third path, and so on. Thus, traffic is routed sequentially
from path to path with no probabilistic methods being used to influence the
realized flows. The reason that sequential routing works well is that
permuting path order provides sufficient flexibility to achieve desired
flows without the need for probabilistic routing.  In 2S-TDR, the sequential
route is allowed to change from hour to hour. The TDR nature of the dynamic
path selection method is achieved by introducing several route choices,
which consist of different sequences of paths, and each path has one or, at
most, two links in tandem.

Paths in the routing table are subject to depth-of-search (DoS) restrictions
for QoS resource management, which is discussed in ANNEX 3.  DoS requires
that the bandwidth capacity available on each link in the path be sufficient
to meet a DoS bandwidth threshold level, which is passed to each node in the
path in the setup message.  DoS restrictions prevent connections that path
on the first-choice or primary (often the shortest) ON-DN path, for example,
from being swamped by alternate routed multiple-link connections.

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A TDR connection set-up example is now given.  The first step is for the ON
to identify the DN and routing table information to the DN.  The ON then
tests for spare capacity on the first or shortest path, and in doing this
supplies the VNs and DN on this path, along with the DoS parameter, to all
nodes in the path.  Each VN tests the available bandwidth capacity on each
link in the path against the DoS threshold.  If there is sufficient
capacity, the VN forwards the connection setup to the next node, which
performs a similar function.  If there is insufficient capacity, the VN
sends a release message with crankback/bandwidth-not-available parameter
back to the ON, at which point the ON tries the next path in the route as
determined by the routing table rules.  As described above, the TDR routes
are preplanned off-line, and then loaded and stored in each ON.

Allocating traffic to the optimum path choice during each time period leads
to design benefits due to the noncoincidence of loads. Since in many network
applications traffic demands change with time in a reasonably predictable
manner, the routing also changes with time to achieve maximum link
utilization and minimum network cost. Several TDR routing time periods are
used to divide up the hours on an average business day and weekend into
contiguous routing intervals. The network design is performed in an
off-line, centralized computation in the bandwidth broker that determines
the optimal routing tables from a very large number of possible alternatives
in order to minimize the network cost. In TDR path selection, rather than
determine the optimal routing tables based on real-time information, a
centralized bandwidth broker design system employs a design model, such as
described in ANNEX 6. The effectiveness of the design depends on how
accurately we can estimate the traffic load on the network. Forecast errors
are corrected in the short-term capacity management process, which allows
routing table updates to replace link augments whenever possible, as
described in ANNEX 7.

2.6     State-Dependent Routing (SDR) Path Selection

In SDR, the routing tables are altered automatically according to the state
of the network.  For a given SDR method, the routing table rules are
implemented to determine the path choices in response to changing network
status, and are used over a relatively short time period.  Information on
network status may be collected at a central bandwidth broker processor or
distributed to nodes in the network.  The information exchange may be
performed on a periodic or on-demand basis.  SDR methods use the principle
of routing connections on the best available path on the basis of network
state information.  For example, in the least loaded routing (LLR) method,
the residual capacity of candidate paths is calculated, and the path having
the largest residual capacity is selected for the connection.  Various
relative levels of link occupancy can be used to define link load states,
such as lightly-loaded, heavily-loaded, or bandwidth-not-available states.
Methods of defining these link load states are discussed in ANNEX 3.  In
general, SDR methods calculate a path cost for each connection request based
on various factors such as the load-state or congestion state of the links
in the network.

In SDR, the routing tables are designed on-line by the ON or a central
bandwidth broker processor (BBP) through the use of network status and
topology information obtained through information exchange with other nodes
and/or a centralized BBP.  There are various implementations of SDR
distinguished by

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a)      whether the computation of the routing tables is distributed among
the network nodes or centralized and done in a centralized BBP, and
b)      whether the computation of the routing tables is done periodically
or connection by connection.

This leads to three different implementations of SDR:

a)      centralized periodic SDR (CP-SDR) -- here the centralized BBP
obtains link status and traffic status information from the various nodes on
a periodic basis (e.g., every 10 seconds) and performs a computation of the
optimal routing table on a periodic basis.  To determine the optimal routing
table, the BBP executes a particular routing table optimization procedure
such as LLR and transmits the routing tables to the network nodes on a
periodic basis (e.g., every 10 seconds).

b)      distributed periodic SDR (DP-SDR) -- here each node in the SDR
network obtains link status and traffic status information from all the
other nodes on a periodic basis (e.g., every 5 minutes) and performs a
computation of the optimal routing table on a periodic basis (e.g., every 5
minutes).  To determine the optimal routing table, the ON executes a
particular routing table optimization procedure such as LLR.

c)      distributed connection-by-connection (DC-SDR) SDR -- here an ON in
the SDR network obtains link status and traffic status information from the
DN, and perhaps from selected VNs, on a connection by connection basis and
performs a computation of the optimal routing table for each connection.  To
determine the optimal routing table, the ON executes a particular routing
table optimization procedure such as LLR.

In DP-SDR path selection, nodes may exchange status and traffic data, for
example, every five minutes, between traffic management processors, and
based on analysis of this data, the traffic management processors can
dynamically select alternate paths to optimize network performance. This
method is illustrated in Figure 2.4b.  Flooding is a common technique for
distributing the status and traffic data, however other techniques with less
overhead are also available, such as a query-for-status method, as discussed
in ANNEX 4.

Figure 2.4b illustrates a CP-SDR path selection method with periodic updates
based on periodic network status. CP-SDR path selection provides
near-real-time routing decisions by having an update of the number of idle
trunks in each link sent to a network database every five seconds.  Routing
tables are determined from analysis of the status data using a path
selection method which provides that the shortest path choice is used if the
bandwidth is available. If the shortest path is busy (e.g., bandwidth is
unavailable on one or more links), the second path is selected from the list
of feasible paths on the basis of having the greatest level of idle
bandwidth at the time; the current second path choice becomes the third, and
so on. This path update is performed, for example, every five seconds. The
CP-SDR model uses dynamically activated bandwidth reservation and other
controls to automatically modify routing tables during network overloads and
failures. CP-SDR requires the use of network status and routing
recommendation information-exchange messages.

Figure 2.4b also illustrates an example of a DC-SDR path selection method.
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the network.  DC-SDR uses real-time exchange of network status information,
such as with query and status messages, to determine an optimal path from a
very large number of possible choices. With DC-SDR, the originating node
first tries the primary path and if it is not available finds an optimal
alternate path by querying the destination node and perhaps several via
nodes through query-for-status network signaling for the busy-idle load
status of all links connected on the alternate paths to the destination
node. The originating node then finds the least loaded alternate path to
route the connection request.  DC-SDR computes required bandwidth
allocations by virtual network from node-measured traffic flows and uses
this capacity allocation to reserve capacity when needed for each virtual
network.  Any excess traffic above the expected flow is routed to
temporarily idle capacity borrowed from capacity reserved for other loads
that happen to be below their expected levels. Idle link capacity is
communicated to other nodes via the query-status information-exchange
messages, as illustrated in Figure 2.4b, and the excess traffic is
dynamically allocated to the set of allowed paths that are identified as
having temporarily idle capacity.  DC-SDR controls the sharing of available
capacity by using dynamic bandwidth reservation, as described in ANNEX 3, to
protect the capacity required to meet expected loads and to minimize the
loss of traffic for classes-of-service which exceed their expected load and
allocated capacity.

Paths in the SDR routing table may consist of the direct link, a 2-link path
through a single VN, or a multiple-link path through multiple VNs.  Paths in
the routing table are subject to DoS restrictions on each link.

2.7     Event-Dependent Routing (EDR) Path Selection

In EDR, the routing tables are updated locally on the basis of whether
connections succeed or fail on a given path choice.  In the EDR learning
approaches, the path last tried, which is also successful, is tried again
until blocked, at which time another path is selected at random and tried on
the next connection request. EDR path choices can also be changed with time
in accordance with changes in traffic load patterns.  Success-to-the-top
(STT) EDR path selection, illustrated in Figure 2.4b, is a decentralized,
on-line path selection method with update based on random routing.  STT-EDR
uses a simplified decentralized learning method to achieve flexible adaptive
routing. The primary path path-p is used first if available, and a currently
successful alternate path path-s is used until it is blocked. In the case
that path-s is blocked (e.g., bandwidth is not available on one or more
links), a new alternate path path-n is selected at random as the alternate
path choice for the next connection request overflow from the primary path.
As described in ANNEX 3, dynamically activated bandwidth reservation is used
under congestion conditions to protect traffic on the primary path. STT-EDR
uses crankback when an alternate path is blocked at a via node, and the
connection request advances to a new random path choice. In STT-EDR, many
path choices can be tried by a given connection request before the  request
is blocked.

In the EDR learning approaches, the current alternate path choice can be
updated randomly, cyclically, or by some other means, and may be maintained
as long as a connection can be established successfully on the path. Hence
the routing table is constructed with the information determined during
connection setup, and no additional information is required by the ON.
Paths in the EDR routing table may consist of the direct link, a 2-link path
through a single VN, or a multiple-link path through multiple VNs.  Paths in

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the routing table are subject to DoS restrictions on each link.  Note that
for either SDR or EDR, as in TDR, the alternate path for a connection
request may be changed in a time-dependent manner considering the
time-variation of the traffic load.

2.8     Interdomain Routing

In current practice, interdomain routing protocols generally do not
incorporate standardized path selection or per class-of-service resource
management.  For example, in IP-based networks BGP [RL00] is used for
interdomain routing but does not incorporate per class-of-service resource
allocation as described in this Section.  Also, MPLS techniques have not yet
been addressed for interdomain applications.  Extensions to interdomain
routing methods discussed in this Section therefore can be considered to
extend the call routing and connection routing concepts to routing between
network domains.

Many of the principles described for intradomain routing can be extended to
interdomain routing.  As illustrated in Figure 2.5,  interdomain routing
paths can be divided into three types:

*       a primary shortest path between the originating domain and
destination domain,
*       alternate paths with all nodes in the origination domain and
destination domain, and
*       alternate or transit paths through other transit domains.

Interdomain routing can support a multiple ingress/egress capability, as
illustrated in Figure 2.5 in which a connection request is routed either on
the shortest path or, if not available, via an alternate path through any
one of the other nodes from an originating node to a gateway node.

Figure 2.5  Multiple Ingress/Egress Interdomain Routing

Within an originating network, a destination network could be served by more
than one gateway node, such as OGN1 and OGN2 in Figure 2.5, in which case
multiple ingress/egress routing is used. As illustrated in Figure 2.5, with
multiple ingress/egress routing, a connection request from the originating
node N1 destined for the destination gateway node DGN1 tries first to access
the links from originating gateway node OGN2 to DGN1. In doing this it is
possible that the connection request could be routed from N1 to OGN2
directly or via N2. If no bandwidth is available from OGN2 to DGN1, the
control of the connection request can be returned to N1 with a
crankback/bandwidth-not-available indicator, after which the connection
request is routed to OGN1 to access the OGN1-to-DGN1 bandwidth. If the
connection request cannot be completed on the link connecting gateway node
OGN1 to DGN1, the connection request can return to the originating node N1
through use of a crankback/band-not-available indicator for possible further
routing to another gateway node (not shown).  In this manner all
ingress/egress connectivity is utilized to a connecting network, maximizing
connection request completion and reliability.

Once the connection request reaches an originating gateway node (such as
OGN1 or OGN2), this node determines the routing to the destination gateway
node DGN1 and routes the connection request accordingly. In completing the
connection request to DGN1, an originating gateway node can dynamically
select a direct shortest path, an alternate path through an alternate node

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in the destination network, or perhaps an alternate path through an
alternate node in another network domain.  Hence, with interdomain routing,
connection requests are routed first to a shortest primary path between the
originating and destination domain, then to a list of alternate paths
through alternate nodes in the terminating network domain, then to a list of
alternate paths through alternate nodes in the originating network domain
(e.g., OGN1 and OGN2 in Figure 2.5), and finally to a list of alternate
paths through nodes in other transit network domains.

Examples of alternate paths which might be selected through a transit
network domain are N1-OGN1-VGN1-DGN1, N1-OGN1-VGN2-DGN1, or
N1-N2-OGN2-VGN2-DGN1 in Figure 2.5.  Such paths through transit network
domains may be tried last in the example network configuration in the
Figure.  For example, flexible interdomain routing may try to find an
available alternate path based on link load states, where known, and
connection request completion performance, where it can be inferred.  That
is, the originating gateway node (e.g., node OGN1 in Figure 2.5) may use its
link status to a via node in a transit domain (e.g., links OGN1-VGN1 and
OGN1-VGN2) in combination with the connection request completion performance
from the candidate via node to the destination node in the destination
network domain, in order to find the most available path to route the
connection request over. For each path, a load state and a completion state
are tracked. The load state indicates whether the link bandwidth from the
gateway node to the via node is lightly loaded, heavily loaded, reserved, or
busy. The completion state indicates whether a path is achieving
above-average completion, average completion, or below-average completion.
The selection of a via path, then, is based on the load state and completion
state. Alternate paths in the same destination network domain and in a
transit network domain are each considered separately.  During times of
congestion, the link bandwidth to a candidate via node may be in a reserved
state, in which case the remaining link bandwidth is reserved for traffic
routing directly to the candidate via node. During periods of no congestion,
capacity not needed by one virtual network is made available to other
virtual networks that are experiencing loads above their allocation.

Similar to intradomain routing, interdomain routing can use discrete load
states for interdomain links terminating in the originating domain (e.g.,
links OGN1-VGN1, OGN1-DGN1, OGN2-DGN1).  As described in ANNEX 3, these link
load states could may include lightly-loaded, heavily-loaded, reserved, and
busy/bandwidth-not-available, in which the idle link bandwidth is compared
with the load state thresholds for the link to determine its load condition.
Completion rate is tracked on the various via paths (such as the path
through via node VGN1 or VGN2 to destination node DGN1 in Figure 2.5) by
taking account of the information relating either the successful completion
or non-completion of a connection request through the via node. A
non-completion, or failure, is scored for the connection request if a
signaling release message is received from the far end after the connection
request seizes an egress link, indicating a network in-completion cause
value. If no such signaling release message is received after the connection
request seizes an egress trunk, then the connection request is scored as a
success.  Each gateway node keeps a connection request completion history of
the success or failure, for example, of the last 10 connection requests
using a particular via path, and it drops the oldest record and adds the
connection request completion for the newest connection request on that
path. Based on the number of connection request completions relative to the
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Based on the completion states, connection requests are normally routed on
the first path with a high completion state with a lightly loaded egress
link. If such a path does not exist, then a path having an average
completion state with a lightly loaded egress link is selected, followed by
a path having a low completion state with a lightly loaded egress link. If
no path with a lightly loaded egress link is available, and if the search
depth permits the use of a heavily loaded egress link, the paths with
heavily loaded egress links are searched in the order of high completion,
average completion, and low completion. If no such paths are available,
paths with reserved egress links are searched in the same order, based on
the connection request completion state, if the search depth permits the use
of a reserved egress link.

The rules for selecting primary shortest paths and alternate paths for a
connection request are governed by the availability of shortest path
bandwidth and node-to-node congestion. The path sequence consists of the
primary shortest path, lightly loaded alternate paths, heavily loaded
alternate paths, and reserved alternate paths. Alternate paths are first
selected which include nodes only in the originating and destination
domains, and then selected through transit domains if necessary.

Thus we have illustrated that interdomain routing methods can be considered
to extend the intradomain call routing and connection routing concepts, such
as flexible path selection and per-class-of-service bandwidth selection, to
routing between network domains.

2.9     Modeling of Traffic Engineering Methods

In the draft, a full-scale national network node model is used together with
a multiservice traffic demand model to study various TE scenarios and
tradeoffs.  The 135-node national model is illustrated in Figure 2.6.

Figure 2.6  135-Node National Network Model

Typical voice/ISDN traffic loads are used to model the various network
alternatives, which are based on 72 hours of a full-scale national network
loading. Table 2.1 summarizes the multiservice traffic model used for the TE
studies.  Here the traffic loads are dynamically varying and tracked by the
exponential smoothing models discussed in ANNEX 3.  Three levels of traffic
priority - key, normal, and best-effort -- are given to the various
class-of-service categories, or virtual networks (VNETs), illustrated in
Table 2.1.  Class-of-service, traffic priority, and QoS resource management
are all discussed further in ANNEX 3.

The voice/ISDN loads are further segmented in the model into eight
constant-bit-rate (CBR) VNETs, including business voice, consumer voice,
international voice in and out, key-service voice, normal and key-service
64-kbps ISDN data, and 384-kbps ISDN data.  For the CBR voice services, the
mean data rate is assumed to be 64 kbps for all VNETs except the 384-kbps
ISDN data VNET-8, for which the mean data rate is 384 kbps.

Table 2.1
Virtual Network (VNET) Traffic Model used for TE Studies

The data services traffic model incorporates typical traffic load patterns
and comprises three additional VNET load patterns.  These data services
VNETs include

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*       variable bit rate real-time (VBR-RT) VNET-9, representing services
such as IP-telephony and compressed voice,
*       variable bit rate non-real-time (VBR-NRT) VNET-10, representing
services such as WWW multimedia and credit card check, and
*       unassigned bit rate (UBR) VNET-11, representing services such as
email, voice mail, and file transfer multimedia applications.

For the VBR-RT connections, the data rate varies from 6.4 to 51.2 kbps with
a mean of 25.6 kbps. The VBR-RT connections are assumed to be interactive
and delay sensitive.  For the VBR-NRT connections, the data rate varies from
38.4 to 64 kbps with a mean of 51.2 kbps, and the VBR-NRT flows are assumed
to be non-delay sensitive.  For the UBR connections, the data rate varies
from 6.4 to 3072 kbps with a mean of 1536 kbps. The UBR flows are assumed to
be best-effort priority and non-delay sensitive.  For modeling purposes, the
service and link bandwidth is segmented into 6.4 kbps slots, that is, 10
slots per 64 kbps channel.

The cost model represents typical switching and transport costs, and
illustrates the economies-of-scale for costs projected for high capacity
network elements in the future.  Table 2.2 gives the model used for average
switching and transport costs allocated per 64 kbps unit of bandwidth, as
follows:


Table 2.2
Cost Assumptions (average cost per equivalent 64 kbps bandwidth)


Data Rate       Average  Transport Cost Average Switching/Cross-Connect Cost
DS3             0.19 x miles + 8.81     26.12
OC3             0.17 x miles + 9.76     19.28
OC12            0.15 x miles + 7.03     9.64
OC48            0.05 x miles + 2.77     3.92


A discrete event network design model, described in ANNEX 6, is used in the
design and analysis of 5 connection routing methods with TE methods applied:
2-STT-EDR path routing in a meshed logical network, 2-link DC-SDR routing in
a meshed logical network, and multilink STT-EDR, DC-SDR, and DP-SDR routing,
as might be supported for example by MPLS TE in a sparse logical network.
We also model the case where no TE call and connection routing methods are
applied.

The network models for the 2-link STT-EDR/DC-SDR, and multilink
STT-EDR/DC-SDR/DP-SDR networks are now described.  In the 2-link STT-EDR and
DC-SDR models, we assume 135 packet-switched-nodes (MPLS- or PNNI-based).
Synchronous to asynchronous conversion (SAC) is assumed to occur at the
packet-switched-nodes for link connections from circuit-switched-nodes.
Links in these 2-link STT-EDR/DC-SDR models are assumed to provide more
fine-grained (1.536 mbpsT1-level) logical transport link bandwidth
allocation, and a meshed network topology design results among the nodes,
that is, links exist between most (90 percent or more) of the nodes. In the
2-link STT-EDR/DC-SDR models, one and 2-link routing with crankback is used
throughout the network. Two-link path selection is modeled both with both
STT path selection and distributed connection-by-connection SDR (DC-SDR)
path selection.  Packet-switched-nodes use 2-link STT-EDR or 2-link DC-SDR

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routing to all other nodes. Quality-of-service priority queuing is modeled
in the performance analyses, in which the key-services are given the highest
priority, normal services the middle priority, and best-effort services the
lowest priority in the queuing model.  This queuing model quantifies the
level of delayed traffic for each virtual network. In routing a connection
with 2-link STT-EDR routing, the ON checks the equivalent bandwidth and
allowed DoS first on the direct path, then on the current successful 2-link
via path, and then sequentially on all candidate 2-link paths.  In routing a
connection with 2-link DC-SDR, the ON checks the equivalent bandwidth and
allowed DoS first on the direct path, and then on the least-loaded path that
meets the equivalent bandwidth and DoS requirements.  Each VN checks the
equivalent bandwidth and allowed DoS provided in the setup message, and uses
crankback to the ON if the equivalent bandwidth or DoS are not met.

In the multilink STT-EDR/DC-SDR/DP-SDR model, we assume 135
packet-switched-nodes.  Because high rate OC3/12/48 links provide highly
aggregated link bandwidth allocation, a sparse network topology design
results among the packet-switched-nodes, that is, high rate OC3/12/48 links
exist between relatively few (10 to 20 percent) of the
packet-switched-nodes.  Secondly, multilink shortest path selection with
crankback is used throughout the network. For example, the STT EDR TE
algorithm used is adaptive and distributed in nature and uses learning
models to find good paths for TE in a network. With STT EDR, if the LSR-A to
LSR-B bandwidth needs to be modified, say increased by delta-BW, the primary
LSP-p is tried first.  If delta-BW is not available on one or more links of
LSP-p, then the currently successful LSP-s is tried next.  If delta-BW is
not available on one or more links of LSP-s, then a new LSP is searched by
trying additional candidate paths until a new successful LSP-n is found or
the candidate paths are exhausted.  LSP-n is then marked as the currently
successful path for the next time bandwidth needs to be modified.

Quality-of-service priority queuing is modeled in the performance analyses,
in which the key-services are given the highest priority, normal services
the middle priority, and best-effort services the lowest priority in the
queuing model.  This queuing model quantifies the level of delayed traffic
for each virtual network. The multilink path selection options are modeled
with STT path selection, DC-SDR path selection, and distributed periodic
path selection (DP-SDR).  In the model of DP-SDR, the status updates, which
are modeled with flooding link status updates every 10 seconds.  Note that
the multilink DP-SDR performance results should also be comparable to the
performance of multilink centralized-periodic SDR (CP-SDR), in which status
updates and path selection updates are made every 10 seconds, respectively,
to and from a bandwidth-broker processor.

In routing a connection with multilink shortest path selection with 2-link
STT-EDR routing, for example, the ON checks the equivalent bandwidth and
allowed DoS first on the first choice path, then on current successful
alternate path, and then sequentially on all candidate alternate paths.
Again, each VN checks the equivalent bandwidth and allowed DoS provided in
the setup message, and uses crankback to the ON if the equivalent bandwidth
or DoS are not met.

In the models the logical network design is optimized for each routing
alternative, while the physical transport links and node locations are held
fixed.  We examine the performance and network design tradeoffs of

*       logical topology design (sparse or mesh), and

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*       routing method (2-link, multilink, fixed, dynamic, SDR, EDR,
hierarchical, nonhierarchical, etc.)

Generally the meshed logical topologies are optimized by 1- and 2-link
routing, while the sparse logical topologies are optimized by multilink
shortest path routing.  Modeling results include

*       designs for dynamic 2-link routing (SDR, EDR) and multilink routing
(SDR, EDR),
*       designs for voice/ISDN-only traffic (VNETs 1-8 in Table 2.1) and
data-only traffic (VNETs 9-11)
*       designs for integrated voice/ISDN and data traffic (VNETs 1-11)
*       designs for fixed hierarchical routing
*       designs where all voice traffic is compressed (VNETs 1-5 and VNET 9
all use the IP-telephony traffic characteristics of VNET 9)
*       performance analyses for overloads and failures

2.9.1   Network Design Comparisons

Illustrative network design costs for the voice/ISDN-only designs (VNETs 1-8
in Table 2.1), for the data-only designs (VNETs 9-11 in Table 2.1), and for
the integrated voice/ISDN and data designs (VNETs 1-11 in Table 2.1), are
given in Figure 2.7, 2.8, and 2.9, respectively.  These design costs and
details are discussed further in ANNEX 6.

Figure 2.7  Voice/ISDN Network Design Cost (includes traffic for
            VNET-1 to VNET-8 in Table 2.1)

Figure 2.8  Data Network Design Cost (includes traffic for
            VNET-9 to VNET-11 in Table 2.1)

Figure 2.9  Voice/ISDN & Data Network Design Cost (includes traffic for
            VNET-1 to VNET-11 in Table 2.1)

The design results show that the 2-link STT-EDR and 2-link DC-SDR logical
mesh networks are highly connected (90%+), while the multilink MPLS-based
and PNNI-based networks are sparsely connected (10-20%).  The network cost
comparisons illustrate that the sparse MPLS and PNNI networks achieve a
small cost advantage, since they take advantage of the greater cost
efficiencies of high bandwidth logical transport links (up to OC48), as
reflected in Table 2.2.  However, these differences in cost may not be
significant, and can change as equipment costs evolve and as the relative
cost of switching and transport equipment changes.  Sensitivities of the
results to different cost assumptions were investigated.  For example, if
the relative cost of transport increases relative to switching, then the
2-link meshed networks can appear to be more efficient than the sparse
multilink networks.  These results are consistent with those presented in
other studies of meshed and sparse logical networks, as a function of
relative switching and transport costs, see for example [A98].

Comparing the results of the separate voice/ISDN and data designs and the
integrated voice/ISDN and data designs shows that integration does achieve
some capital cost advantage of about 5 to 20 percent.  The larger range of
integration design efficiencies is achieved as a result of the economies of
scale of larger capacity network elements, as reflected in cost assumptions
given in Table 2.2.  However, probably more significant are the operational
savings of integration which result from operating a single network rather

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than two or more networks.  In addition, the performance of an integrated
voice and data network leads to advantages in capacity sharing, especially
when different traffic classes having different routing priorities, such as
key service and best-effort service, are integrated and share capacity on
the same network.  These performance results are reported below.  A study of
voice compression for all voice traffic, such as might occur if IP-telephony
is widely deployed, shows that network capital costs might be reduced by as
much as 10% if this evolutionary direction is followed.  An analysis of
fixed hierarchical routing versus dynamic routing illustrates that more than
20% reduction in network capital costs can be achieved with dynamic routing.
In addition, operation savings also result from simpler provisioning of the
dynamic routing options.

2.9.2   Network Performance Comparisons

The performance analyses for overloads and failures include connection
request admission control with QoS resource management.  As discussed in
ANNEX 3, in the example QoS resource management approach, we distinguish the
key services, normal services, and best-effort services.  Performance
comparisons are presented in Tables 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 for various TE
methods, including 2-link and multilink EDR and SDR approaches, and a
baseline case of no TE methods applied.  Table 2.3 gives performance results
for a 30% general overload, Table 2.4 gives performance results for a
six-times overload on a single network node, and Table 2.5 gives performance
results for a single logical-transport-link failure.

Table 2.3
Performance Comparison for Various Connection-Routing TE Methods & No TE
Methods
30% General Overload (% Lost/Delayed Traffic)
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model)

Table 2.4
Performance Comparison for Various Connection-Routing TE Methods & No TE
Methods
6X Focused Overload on OKBK (% Lost/Delayed Traffic)
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model)

Table 2.5
Performance Comparison for Various Connection-Routing TE Methods & No TE
Methods
Failure on CHCG-NYCM Link (% Lost/Delayed Traffic)
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model)

In all cases of the TE methods being applied, the performance is always
better and usually substantially better than when no TE methods are applied.
The performance analysis results show that the multilink
STT-EDR/DC-SDR/DP-SDR options (in sparse topologies) perform somewhat better
under overloads than the 2-link STT-EDR/DC-SDR options (in meshed
topologies), because of greater sharing of network capacity. Under failure,
the 2-link STT-EDR/DC-SDR options perform better for many of the virtual
network categories than the multilink STT-EDR/DC-SDR/CP-SDR options, because
they have a richer choice of alternate routing paths and are much more
highly connected than the multilink STT-EDR/DC-SDR/DP-SDR networks.  Loss of
a link in a sparely connected multilink STT-EDR/DC-SDR/DP-SDR network can
have more serious consequences than in more highly connected logical
networks.  The performance results illustrate that capacity sharing of CBR,

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VBR, and UBR traffic classes, when combined with QoS resource management and
priority queuing, leads to efficient use of bandwidth with minimal traffic
delay and loss impact, even under overload and failure scenarios.  These QoS
resource management trends are further examined in ANNEX 3.

The STT and SDR path selection methods are quite comparable for the 2-link,
meshed-topology network scenarios.  However, the STT path selection method
performs somewhat better than the SDR options in the multilink,
sparse-topology case.  In addition, the DC-SDR path selection option
performs somewhat better than the CP-DCR option in the multilink case, which
is a result of the 10-second old status information causing misdirected
paths in some cases.  Hence, it can be concluded that frequently-updated,
available-link-bandwidth (ALB) state information does not necessarily
improve performance in all cases, and that if ALB state information is used,
it is sometimes better that it is very recent status information.

2.9.3   Network Modeling Conclusions

The TE modeling conclusions are summarized as follows:

1.      Capital cost advantages may be attributed to the sparse topology
options, such as the multilink STT-EDR/DC-SDR/DP-SDR options, but may not be
significant compared to operational costs, and are subject to the particular
switching and transport cost assumptions.  Capacity design models are
further detailed in ANNEX 6 and operational issues in ANNEX 7.

2.      In all cases of the TE methods being applied, the performance is
always better and usually substantially better than when no TE methods are
applied

3.      The sparse-topology multilink-routing networks provide better
overall performance under overload, but performance under failure may favor
the 2-link STT-EDR/DC-SDR options with more alternate routing choices.  One
item of concern in the sparse-topology multilink-routing networks is with
post dial delay, in which perhaps 5 or more links may need to be connected
for an individual connection request.

4.      State information as used by the 2-link and multilink SDR options
provides only a small network capital cost advantage, and essentially
equivalent performance to the 2-link STT-EDR options, as illustrated in the
network performance results.

5.      Various path selection methods can interwork with each other in the
same network, which is required for multi-vendor network operation.

6.      QoS resource management, as further described in ANNEX 3, is shown
to be effective in achieving key service, normal service, and best effort
service differentiation.

7.      Voice and data integration can provide capital cost advantages, but
may be more important in achieving operational simplicity and cost
reduction.

8.      If IP-telephony takes hold and a significant portion of voice calls
use voice compression technology, this could lead to more efficient
networks.


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Overall the packet-based (e.g., MPLS/TE) multilink, sparse-topology routing
strategies offer several advantages. The sparse logical topology with the
high-speed switching and transport links may have economic benefit due to
lower cost network designs achieved by the economies of scale of higher rate
network elements.  The sparse, high-bandwidth, logical-transport-link
networks have been shown to have better response to overload conditions than
logical mesh networks, due to greater sharing of network capacity. The
packet-based routing protocols have capabilities for automatic provisioning
of links, nodes, and reachable addresses, which provide operational
advantages for such networks.  Because the sparse high-bandwidth-link
network designs have dramatically fewer links to provision compared to mesh
network designs (10-20% connected versus 90% or more connected for mesh
networks), there is less provisioning work to perform.  In addition to
having fewer links to provision, sparse high-bandwidth-link network designs
use larger increments of capacity on individual links and therefore capacity
additions would need to occur less frequently than in highly connected mesh
networks, which would have much smaller increments of capacity on the
individual links.  The sparse-topology, multilink-routing methods are
synergistic with evolution of data network services which implement these
protocols, and such routing methods have been in place for many years in
data networks.  Should a service provider pursue integration of the
voice/ISDN and data services networks, these factors will help support such
an integration direction.

2.10     Conclusions/Recommendations

We have discussed call routing and connection routing methods employed in TE
functions.  Several connection routing alternatives were discussed, which
include FR, TDR, EDR, and SDR methods.  Models were presented to illustrate
the network design and performance tradeoffs between the many TE approaches
explained in the ANNEX, and conclusions were drawn on the advantages of
various routing and topology options in network operation.  Overall the
packet-based (e.g., MPLS/TE) multilink, sparse-topology routing strategies
were found to offer several advantages.

The following conclusions/recommendations are reached in the ANNEX:

*       In all cases of the TE methods being applied, network performance is
always better and usually substantially better than when no TE methods are
applied

*       Sparse-topology multilink-routing networks provide better overall
performance under overload than meshed-topology networks, but performance
under failure may favor the 2-link STT-EDR/DC-SDR meshed-topology options
with more alternate routing choices.

*       State information as used by the SDR options provides essentially
equivalent performance to the EDR options.

*       Various path selection methods can interwork with each other in the
same network, as required for multi-vendor network operation.

*       EDR TE methods are shown to an important class of TE algorithms.
EDR TE methods are distinct from the TDR and SDR TE methods in how the paths
(e.g., MPLS label switched paths, or LSPs) are selected.  In the SDR TE
case, the available link bandwidth (based on LSA flooding of ALB
information) is typically used to compute the path.  In the EDR TE case, the

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ALB information is not needed to compute the path, therefore the ALB
flooding does not need to take place (reducing the overhead).

*       EDR TE algorithms are adaptive and distributed in nature and
typically use learning models to find good paths for TE in a network. For
example, in a success-to-the-top (STT) EDR TE method, if the LSR-A to LSR-B
bandwidth needs to be modified, say increased by delta-BW, the primary LSP-p
is tried first.  If delta-BW is not available on one or more links of LSP-p,
then the currently successful LSP-s is tried next.  If delta-BW is not
available on one or more links of LSP-s, then a new LSP is searched by
trying additional candidate paths until a new successful LSP-n is found or
the candidate paths are exhausted.  LSP-n is then marked as the currently
successful path for the next time bandwidth needs to be modified.  The
performance of distributed EDR TE methods is shown to be equal to or better
than SDR methods, centralized or distributed.

*       While SDR TE models typically use available-link-bandwidth (ALB)
flooding for TE path selection, EDR TE methods do not require ALB flooding.
Rather, EDR TE methods typically search out capacity by learning models, as
in the STT method above.  ALB flooding can be very resource intensive, since
it requires link bandwidth to carry LSAs, processor capacity to process
LSAs, and the overhead can limit area/autonomous system (AS) size.  Modeling
results show EDR TE methods can lead to a large reduction in ALB flooding
overhead without loss of network throughput performance [as shown in ANNEX
4].

*       interdomain routing methods can be considered to extend the
intradomain call routing and connection routing concepts, such as flexible
path selection and per-class-of-service bandwidth selection, to routing
between network domains.

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ANNEX 3
QoS Resource Management Methods

Traffic Engineering & QoS Methods for IP-, ATM-, & TDM-Based Multiservice
Networks


3.1     Introduction

QoS resource management (sometimes called QoS routing) functions include
class-of-service identification, routing table derivation, connection
admission, bandwidth allocation, bandwidth protection, bandwidth
reservation, priority routing, priority queuing, and other related resource
management functions.  QoS resource management methods have been applied
successfully in TDM-based networks [A98], and are being extended to IP-based
and ATM-based networks.  In an illustrative QoS resource management method,
bandwidth is allocated in discrete changes to each of several virtual
networks (VNETs), which are each assigned a priority corresponding to either
high-priority key services, normal-priority services, or best-effort
low-priority services.  Examples of services within these VNET categories
include

*       high-priority key services such as defense voice communication,
*       normal-priority services such as constant rate, interactive,
delay-sensitive voice; variable rate, interactive, delay-sensitive
IP-telephony; and variable rate, non-interactive, non-delay-sensitive WWW
file transfer, and
*       low-priority best-effort services such as variable rate,
non-interactive, non-delay-sensitive voice mail, email, and file transfer

Bandwidth changes in VNET bandwidth capacity can be determined by edge nodes
on a per-flow (per-connection) basis, or based on an overall aggregated
bandwidth demand for VNET capacity (not on a per-connection demand basis).
In the latter case of per-VNET bandwidth allocation, based on the aggregated
bandwidth demand, edge nodes make periodic discrete changes in bandwidth
allocation, that is, either increase or decrease bandwidth, such as on the
constraint-based routing label switched paths (CRLSPs) constituting the VNET
bandwidth capacity.

In the illustrative QoS resource management method, which we assume is
MPLS-based, the bandwidth allocation control for each VNET CRLSP is based on
estimated bandwidth needs, bandwidth use, and status of links in the CRLSP.
The edge node, or originating node (ON), determines when VNET bandwidth
needs to be increased or decreased on a CRLSP, and uses an illustrative MPLS
CRLSP bandwidth modification procedure to execute needed bandwidth
allocation changes on VNET CRLSPs.  In the bandwidth allocation procedure
the constraint-based routing label distribution protocol (CRLDP) [J00] or
the resource reservation protocol (RSVP-TE) [AGBLSS00] could be used, for
example, to specify appropriate parameters in the label request message a)
to request bandwidth allocation changes on each link in the CRLSP, and b) to
determine if link bandwidth can be allocated on each link in the CRLSP.  If
a link bandwidth allocation is not allowed, a notification message with an
illustrative crankback parameter allows the ON to search out possible
bandwidth allocation on another CRLSP.  In particular, we illustrate an
optional depth-of-search (DoS) parameter in the label request message to
control the bandwidth allocation on individual links in a CRLSP.  In
addition, we illustrate an optional modify parameter in the label request

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message to allow dynamic modification of the assigned traffic parameters
(such as peak data rate, committed data rate, etc.) of an already existing
CRLSP.  Finally, we illustrate a crankback parameter in the notification
message to allow an edge node to search out additional alternate CRLSPs when
a given CRLSP cannot accommodate a bandwidth request.

QoS resource management therefore can be applied on a per-flow (or per-call
or per-connection-request) basis, or can be beneficially applied to traffic
trunks (also known as "bandwidth pipes" or "virtual trunking") in the form
of CRLSPs in IP-based networks or SVPs in ATM-based networks.

QoS resource management provides integration of services on a shared
network, for many classes-of-service such as:

*       CBR services including voice, 64-, 384-, and 1,536-kbps N-ISDN
switched digital data, international switched transit, priority defense
communication, virtual private network, 800/free-phone, fiber preferred, and
other services.
*       Real-time VBR services including IP-telephony, compressed video, and
other services .
*       Non-real-time VBR services including WWW file transfer, credit card
check, and other services.
*       UBR services including voice mail, email, file transfer, and other
services.

We now illustrate the principles of QoS resource management, which includes
integration of many traffic classes, as discussed above.

3.2     Class-of-Service Identification, Policy-Based Routing Table
Derivation, & QoS Resource Management Steps

QoS resource management functions include class-of-service identification,
routing table derivation, connection admission, bandwidth allocation,
bandwidth protection, bandwidth reservation, priority routing, and priority
queuing.  In this Section we discuss class-of-service identification and
routing-table derivation.

3.2.1   Class-of-Service Identification

QoS resource management entails identifying class-of-service and
class-of-service parameters, which may include, for example:

*       service identity (SI),
*       virtual network (VNET),
*       link capability (LC), and
*       QoS and traffic threshold parameters.

The SI describes the actual service associated with the call.  The VNET
describes the bandwidth allocation and routing table parameters to be used
by the call.  The LC describes the link hardware capabilities such as fiber,
radio, satellite, and digital circuit multiplexing equipment (DCME), that
the call should require, prefer, or avoid. The combination of SI, VNET, and
LC constitute the class-of-service, which together with the network node
number is used to access routing table data.

In addition to controlling bandwidth allocation, the QoS resource management
procedures can check end-to-end transfer delay, delay variation, and

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transmission quality considerations such as loss, echo, and noise, as
discussed in Section 3.7 below.

Determination of class-of-service begins with translation at the originating
node. The number or name is translated to determine the routing address of
the destination node.  If multiple ingress/egress routing is used, multiple
destination node addresses are derived for the call.  Other data derived
from call information, such as link characteristics, Q.931 message
information elements, Information Interchange digits, and network control
point routing information, are used to derive the class-of-service for the
call.

3.2.2   Policy-Based Routing Table Derivation

Class-of-service parameters are derived through application of policy-based
routing.  Policy-based routing involves the application of rules applied to
input parameters to derive a routing table and its associated parameters.
Input parameters for applying policy-based rules to derive SI, VNET, and LC
could include numbering plan, type of origination/destination network, and
type of service.  Policy-based routing rules may then be applied to the
derived SI, VNET, and LC to derive the routing table and associated
parameters.

Hence policy-based routing rules are used in SI derivation, which for
example uses the type of origin, type of destination, signaling service
type, and dialed number/name service type to derive the SI. The type of
origin can be derived normally from the type of incoming link to the
connected network domain, connecting either to a directly connected (also
known as nodal) customer equipment location, a switched access local
exchange carrier, or an international carrier location. Similarly, based on
the dialed numbering plan, the type of destination network is derived and
can be a directly connected (nodal) customer location if a private numbering
plan is used (for example, within a virtual private network), a switched
access customer location if a North American Numbering Plan (NANP) number is
used to the destination, or an international customer location if the
international E.164 numbering plan is used. Signaling service type is
derived based on bearer capability within signaling messages, information
digits in dialed digit codes, numbering plan, or other signaling information
and can indicate long-distance service (LDS), virtual private network (VPN)
service, ISDN switched digital service (SDS), and other service types.
Finally, dialed number service type is derived based on special dialed
number codes such as 800 numbers or 900 numbers and can indicate 800
(FreePhone) service, 900 (Mass-Announcement) service, and other service
types. Type of origin, type of destination, signaling service type, and
dialed number service type are then all used to derive the SI.

The following are examples of the use of policy-based routing rules to
derive class-of-service parameters. A long-distance service (LDS) SI, for
example, is derived from the following information:

1.      The type of origination network is a switched access local exchange
carrier, because the call originates from a local exchange carrier node.

2.      The type of destination network is a switched access local exchange
carrier, based on the NANP dialed number.

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numbering plan (NANP).

4.      The dialed number service type is not used to distinguish
long-distance service SI.

An 800 (FreePhone) service SI, for example, is derived from similar
information, except that:

4.      The dialed number service type is based on the 800 dialed
"freephone" number to distinguish the 800 service SI.

A VPN service SI, for example, is derived from similar information, except
that:

3.      The signaling service type is based on the originating customer
having access to VPN intelligent network (IN)-based services to derive the
VPN service SI.

A service identity mapping table uses the above four inputs to derive the
service identity. This policy-based routing table is changeable by
administrative updates, in which new service information can be defined
without software modifications to the node processing. From the SI and
bearer-service capability the SI/bearer-service-to-virtual network mapping
table is used to derive the VNET.

Table 2.1 in ANNEX 2 illustrates the VNET mapping table. Here the SIs are
mapped to individual virtual networks. Routing parameters for priority or
key services are discussed further in the sections below.

Link capability selection allows calls to be routed on links that have the
particular characteristics required by these calls. A call can require,
prefer, or avoid a set of link characteristics such as fiber transmission,
radio transmission, satellite transmission, or compressed voice
transmission. Link capability requirements for the call can be determined by
the SI of the call or by other information derived from the signaling
message or from the routing number. The routing logic allows the call to
skip those links that have undesired characteristics and to seek a best
match for the requirements of the call.

3.2.3   QoS Resource Management Steps

The illustrative QoS resource management method consists of the following
steps:

1.      At the ON, the destination node (DN), SI, VNET, and QoS resource
management information are determined through the number/name translation
database and other service information available at the ON.
2.      The DN and QoS resource management information are used to access
the appropriate VNET and routing table between the ON and DN.
3.      The connection request is set up over the first available path in
the routing table with the required transmission resource selected based on
the QoS resource management data.

In the first step, the ON translates the dialed digits to determine the
address of the DN.  If multiple ingress/egress routing is used, multiple
destination node addresses are derived for the connection request.  Other
data derived from connection request information includes link

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characteristics, Q.931 message information elements, information interchange
(II) digits, and service control point (SCP) routing information, and are
used to derive the QoS resource management parameters (SI, VNET, LC, and
QoS/traffic thresholds).  SI describes the actual service associated with
the connection request, VNET describes the bandwidth allocation and routing
table parameters to be used by the connection request, and the LC describes
the link characteristics including fiber, radio, satellite, and voice
compression, that the connection request should require, prefer, or avoid.
Each connection request is classified by its SI.  A connection request for
an individual service is allocated an equivalent bandwidth equal to EQBW and
routed on a particular VNET.  For CBR services the equivalent bandwidth EQBW
is equal to the average or sustained bit rate.  For VBR services the
equivalent bandwidth EQBW is a function of the sustained bit rate, peak bit
rate, and perhaps other parameters.  For example, EQBW equals 64 kbps of
bandwidth for CBR voice connections, 64 kbps of bandwidth for CBR ISDN
switched digital 64-kbps connections, and 384-kbps of bandwidth for CBR ISDN
switched digital 384-kbps connections.

In the second step, the SI value is used to derive the VNET.  In the
multi-service, QoS resource management  network, bandwidth is allocated to
individual VNETs  which is protected as needed but otherwise shared. Under
normal non-blocking/delay network conditions, all services fully share all
available bandwidth.  When blocking/delay occurs for VNET i, bandwidth
reservation acts to prohibit alternate-routed traffic and traffic from other
VNETs from seizing the allocated capacity for VNET i.  Associated with each
VNET are average bandwidth (BWavg) and maximum bandwidth (BWmax) parameters
to govern bandwidth allocation and protection, which are discussed further
in the next Section.  As discussed, LC selection allows connection requests
to be routed on specific transmission links that have the particular
characteristics required by a connection request.

In the third step, the VNET routing table determines which network capacity
is allowed to be selected for each connection request.  In using the VNET
routing table to select network capacity, the ON selects a first choice path
based on the routing table selection rules.  Whether or not bandwidth can
allocated to the connection request on the first choice path is determined
by the QoS resource management rules given below.  If a first choice path
cannot be accessed, the ON may then try alternate paths determined by FR,
TDR, SDR, or EDR path selection rules outlined in ANNEX 2.  Whether or not
bandwidth can be allocated to the connection request on the alternate path
again is determined by the QoS resource management rules now described.

3.3     Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation, Protection, and Reservation Principles

QoS resource management functions include class-of-service identification,
routing table derivation, connection admission, bandwidth allocation,
bandwidth protection, bandwidth reservation, priority routing, and priority
queuing.  In this Section we discuss connection admission, bandwidth
allocation, bandwidth protection, and bandwidth reservation.

This Section specifies the resource allocation controls and priority
mechanisms, and the information needed to support them.  In the illustrative
QoS resource management method, the connection/bandwidth-allocation
admission control for each link in the path is performed based on the status
of the link. The ON may select any path for which the first link is allowed
according to QoS resource management criteria.  If a subsequent link is not
allowed, then a release with crankback/bandwidth-not-available is used to

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return to the ON and select an alternate path.  This use of an EDR path
selection, which entails the use of the release with
crankback/bandwidth-not-available mechanism to search for an available path,
is an alternative to SDR path selection, which may entail flooding of
frequently changing link state parameters such as available-cell-rate.  The
tradeoffs between EDR with crankback and SDR with link-state flooding are
further discussed in ANNEX 6.  In particular, when EDR path selection with
crankback is used in lieu of SDR path selection with link-state flooding,
the reduction in the frequency of such link-state parameter flooding allows
for larger peer group sizes.  This is because link-state flooding can
consume substantial processor and link resources, in terms of message
processing by the processors and link bandwidth consumed by messages on the
links.

Two cases of QoS resource management are considered in this ANNEX:
per-virtual-network (per-VNET) management and per-flow management.  In the
per-VNET method, such as illustrated for IP-based MPLS networks, aggregated
LSP bandwidth is managed to meet the overall bandwidth requirements of VNET
service needs.  Individual flows are allocated bandwidth within the CRLSPs
accordingly, as CRLSP bandwidth is available.  In the per-flow method,
bandwidth is allocated to each individual flow, such as in SVC set-up in an
ATM-based network, from the overall pool of bandwidth, as the total pool
bandwidth is available.  A fundamental principle applied in these bandwidth
allocation methods is the use of bandwidth reservation techniques.  We first
review bandwidth reservation principles and then discuss per-VNET and
per-flow QoS resource allocation.

Bandwidth reservation (the TDM-network terminology is "trunk reservation")
gives preference to the preferred traffic by allowing it to seize any idle
bandwidth in a link, while allowing the non-preferred traffic to only seize
bandwidth if there is a minimum level of idle bandwidth available, where the
minimum-bandwidth threshold is called the reservation level.  P. J. Burke
[Bur61] first analyzed bandwidth reservation behavior from the solution of
the birth--death equations for the bandwidth reservation model.  Burke's
model showed the relative lost-traffic level for preferred traffic, which is
not subject to bandwidth reservation restrictions, as compared to
non-preferred traffic, which is subject to the restrictions.  Figure 3.1
illustrates the percent lost traffic of preferred and non-preferred traffic
on a typical link with 10 percent traffic overload. It is seen that the
preferred traffic lost traffic is near zero, whereas the non-preferred lost
traffic is much higher, and this situation is maintained across a wide
variation in the percentage of the preferred traffic load. Hence, bandwidth
reservation protection is robust to traffic variations and provides
significant dynamic protection of particular streams of traffic.

Figure 3.1.  Dynamic Bandwidth Reservation Performance under 10% Overload

Bandwidth reservation is a crucial technique used in nonhierarchical
networks to prevent "instability," which can severely reduce throughput in
periods of congestion, perhaps by as much as 50 percent of the
traffic-carrying capacity of a network [E.525]. The phenomenon of
instability has an interesting mathematical solution to network flow
equations, which has been presented in several studies [NaM73, Kru82,
Aki84].  It is shown in these studies that nonhierarchical networks exhibit
two stable states, or bistability, under congestion and that networks can
transition between these stable states in a network congestion condition
that has been demonstrated in simulation studies. A simple explanation of

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how this bistable phenomenon arises is that under congestion, a network is
often not able to complete a connection request on the primary shortest
path, which consist in this example of a single link. If alternate routing
is allowed, such as on longer, multiple-link paths, which are assumed in
this example to consist of two links, then the connection request might be
completed on a two-link path selected from among a large number of two-link
path choices, only one of which needs sufficient idle bandwidth on both
links to be used to route the connection.  Because this two-link connection
now occupies resources that could perhaps otherwise be used to complete two
one-link connections, this is a less efficient use of network resources
under congestion. In the event that a large fraction of all connections
cannot complete on the direct link but instead occupy two-link paths, the
total network throughput capacity is reduced by one-half because most
connections take twice the resources needed. This is one stable state; that
is, most or all connections use two links. The other stable state is that
most or all connections use one link, which is the desired condition. .

Bandwidth reservation is used to prevent this unstable behavior by having
the preferred traffic on a link be the direct traffic on the primary,
shortest path, and the non-preferred traffic, subjected to bandwidth
reservation restrictions as described above, be the alternate-routed traffic
on longer paths. In this way the alternate-routed traffic is inhibited from
selecting longer alternate paths when sufficient idle trunk capacity is not
available on all links of an alternate-routed connection, which is the
likely condition under network and link congestion. Mathematically, the
studies of bistable network behavior have shown that bandwidth reservation
used in this manner to favor primary shortest connections eliminates the
bistability problem in nonhierarchical networks and allows such networks to
maintain efficient utilization under congestion by favoring connections
completed on the shortest path.  For this reason, dynamic bandwidth
reservation is universally applied in nonhierarchical TDM-based networks
[E.529], and often in hierarchical networks [Mum76].

There are differences in how and when bandwidth reservation is applied,
however, such as whether the bandwidth reservation for connections routed on
the primary path is in place at all times or whether it is dynamically
triggered to be used only under network or link congestion. This is a
complex network throughput trade-off issue, because bandwidth reservation
can lead to some loss in throughput under normal, low-congestion conditions.
This loss in throughput arises because if bandwidth is reserved for
connections on the primary path, but these connection requests do not
arrive, then the capacity is needlessly reserved when it might be used to
complete alternate-routed traffic that might otherwise be blocked. However,
under network congestion, the use of bandwidth reservation is critical to
preventing network instability, as explained above [E.525].

It is beneficial for bandwidth reservation techniques be included in
IP-based and ATM-based routing methods, in order to ensure the efficient use
of network resources especially under congestion conditions.  Currently
recommended path-selection methods, such as methods for optimized multipath
for traffic engineering in IP-based MPLS networks [V99], or path selection
in ATM-based PNNI networks [ATM960055], give no guidance on the necessity
for using bandwidth-reservation techniques.  Such guidance is essential for
acceptable network performance.

Examples are given in this ANNEX for dynamically triggered bandwidth
reservation techniques, where bandwidth reservation is triggered only under

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network congestion.  Such methods are shown to be effective in striking a
balance between protecting network resources under congestion and ensuring
that resources are available for sharing when conditions permit. In Section
3.6 the phenomenon of network instability is illustrated through simulation
studies, and the effectiveness of bandwidth reservation in eliminating the
instability is demonstrated. Bandwidth reservation is also shown to be an
effective technique to share bandwidth capacity among services integrated on
a primary path, where the reservation in this case is invoked to prefer link
capacity on the primary path for one particular class-of-service as opposed
to another class-of-service when network and link congestion are
encountered. These two aspects of bandwidth reservation, that is, for
avoiding instability and for sharing bandwidth capacity among services, are
illustrated in Section 3.4.

3.4     Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation, Protection, and
Reservation

Through the use of bandwidth allocation, reservation, and congestion control
techniques, QoS resource management can provide good network performance
under normal and abnormal operating conditions for all services sharing the
integrated network.  Such methods have been analyzed in practice for
TDM-based networks [A98], and in  modeling studies for IP-based networks
[ACFM99] -- in this draft these IP-based QoS resource management methods are
described.  However, the intention here is to illustrate the general
principles of QoS resource management and not to recommend a specific
implementation.
As illustrated in Figure 3.2, in the multi-service, QoS resource management
network, bandwidth is allocated to the individual VNETs (high-priority key
services VNETs, normal-priority services VNETs, and best-effort low-priority
services VNETs).

Figure 3.2  Virtual Network (VNET) Bandwidth Management

This allocated bandwidth is protected by bandwidth reservation methods, as
needed, but otherwise shared.  Each ON monitors VNET bandwidth use on each
VNET CRLSP, and determines when VNET CRLSP bandwidth needs to be increased
or decreased. Bandwidth changes in VNET bandwidth capacity are determined by
ONs based on an overall aggregated bandwidth demand for VNET capacity (not
on a per-connection demand basis).  Based on the aggregated bandwidth
demand, these ONs make periodic discrete changes in bandwidth allocation,
that is, either increase or decrease bandwidth on the CRLSPs constituting
the VNET bandwidth capacity. For example, if connection requests are made
for VNET CRLSP bandwidth that exceeds the current CRLSP bandwidth
allocation, the ON initiates a bandwidth modification request on the
appropriate CRLSP(s).  For example, this bandwidth modification request may
entail increasing the current CRLSP bandwidth allocation by a discrete
increment of bandwidth denoted here as delta-bandwidth (DBW).  DBW is a
large enough bandwidth change so that modification requests are made
relatively infrequently.  Also, the ON periodically monitors CRLSP bandwidth
use, such as once each minute, and if bandwidth use falls below the current
CRLSP allocation the ON initiates a bandwidth modification request to
decrease the CRLSP bandwidth allocation by a unit of bandwidth such as DBW.

In making a VNET bandwidth allocation modification, the ON determines the
QoS resource management parameters including the VNET priority (key, normal,
or best-effort), VNET bandwidth-in-use, VNET bandwidth allocation
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CRLSP.  These parameters are used to access a VNET depth-of-search (DoS)
table to determine a DoS load state threshold (Pi), or the "depth" to which
network capacity can be allocated for the VNET bandwidth modification
request. In using the DoS threshold to allocate VNET bandwidth capacity, the
ON selects a first choice CRLSP based on the routing table selection rules.

Path selection in this IP network illustration may use open shortest path
first (OSPF) for intra-domain routing.  In OSPF-based layer 3 routing, as
illustrated in Figure 3.3, ON A determines a list of shortest paths by
using, for example, Dijkstra's algorithm.

Figure 3.3  Label Switched Path Selection for Bandwidth Modification
            Request

This path list could be determined based on administrative weights of each
link, which are communicated to all nodes within the autonomous system (AS)
domain.  These administrative weights may be set, for example, to [1 +
epsilon x distance], where epsilon is a factor giving a relatively smaller
weight to the distance in comparison to the hop count.   The ON selects a
path from the list based on, for example, FR, TDR, SDR, or EDR path
selection, as discussed in ANNEX 2.

For example, in using the first CRLSP A-B-E in Figure 3.3, ON A sends an
MPLS label request message to VN B, which in turn forwards the label request
message to DN E.  VN B and DN E are passed in the explicit routing (ER)
parameter contained in the label request message.  Each node in the CRLSP
reads the ER information, and passes the label request message to the next
node listed in the ER parameter.  If the first path is blocked at any of the
links in the path, an MPLS notification message with a crankback parameter
is returned to ON A, which can then attempt the next path.  If FR is used,
then this path is the next path in the shortest path list, for example path
A-C-D-E.  If TDR is used, then the next path is the next path in the routing
table for the current time period.  If SDR is used, OSPF implements a
distributed method of flooding link status information, which is triggered
either periodically and/or by crossing load state threshold values.  This
method of distributing link status information can be resource intensive and
may not be any more efficient than simpler path selection methods such as
EDR.  If EDR is used, then the next path is the last successful path, and if
that path is unsuccessful another alternate path is searched out according
to the EDR path selection method.

Hence in using the selected CRLSP, the ON sends the explicit route, the
requested traffic parameters (peak data rate, committed data rate, etc.), a
DoS-parameter, and a modify-parameter in the MPLS label request message to
each VN and the DN in the selected CRLSP.  Whether or not bandwidth can be
allocated to the bandwidth modification request on the first choice CRLSP is
determined by each VN applying the QoS resource management rules.  These
rules entail that the VN determine the CRLSP link states, based on bandwidth
use and bandwidth available, and compare the link load state to the DoS
threshold Pi sent in the MPLS signaling parameters, as further explained
below.  If the first choice CRLSP cannot admit the bandwidth change, a VN or
DN returns control to the ON through the use of the crankback-parameter in
the MPLS notification message.  At that point the ON may then try an
alternate CRLSP.  Whether or not bandwidth can be allocated to the bandwidth
modification request on the alternate path again is determined by the use of
the DoS threshold compared to the CRLSP link load state at each VN.
Priority queuing is used during the time the CRLSP is established, and at

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each link the queuing discipline is maintained such that the packets are
given priority according to the VNET traffic priority.

Hence determination of the CRLSP link load states is necessary for QoS
resource management to select network capacity on either the first choice
CRLSP or alternate CRLSPs.  Four link load states are distinguished: lightly
loaded (LL), heavily loaded (HL), reserved (R), and busy (B).  Management of
CRLSP capacity uses the link state model and the DoS model to determine if a
bandwidth modification request can be accepted on a given CRLSP.  The
allowed DoS load state threshold Pi determines if a bandwidth modification
request can be accepted on a given link to an available bandwidth "depth."
In setting up the bandwidth modification request, the ON encodes the DoS
load state threshold allowed on each link in the DoS-parameter Pi, which is
carried in the MPLS label request.  If a CRLSP link is encountered at a VN
in which the idle link bandwidth and link load state are below the allowed
DoS load state threshold Pi, then the VN sends an MPLS notification message
with the crankback-parameter to the ON, which can then route the bandwidth
modification request to an alternate CRLSP choice.  For example, in Figure
3.3, CRLSP A-B-E may be the first path tried where link A-B is in the LL
state and link B-E is in the R state.  If the DoS load state allowed is
Pi=HL or better, then the CRLSP bandwidth modification request in the MPLS
label request message is routed on link A-B but will not be admitted on link
B-E, wherein the CRLSP bandwidth modification request will be cranked back
in the MPLS notification message to the originating node A to try alternate
CRLSP A-C-D-E.  Here the CRLSP bandwidth modification request succeeds since
all links have a state of HL or better.

3.4.1   Per-VNET Bandwidth Allocation/Reservation - Meshed Network Case

For purposes of bandwidth allocation reservation, two approaches are
illustrated: one applicable to meshed network topologies and the other
applicable to sparse topologies.  In meshed networks, a greater number of
logical transport links results in less traffic carried per link, and
functions such as bandwidth reservation need to be more carefully controlled
than in a sparse network.  In a sparse network the traffic is concentrated
on much larger, and many fewer logical transport links, and here bandwidth
reservation does not have to be as carefully managed.  Hence in the meshed
network case, functions such as automatically triggering of bandwidth
reservation on and off, dependent on the link/network congestion level, are
beneficial to use.  In the sparse network case, however, the complexity of
such automatic triggering is not essential and bandwidth reservation may be
permanently enabled without performance degradation.

Here we discuss a meshed network example of bandwidth allocation/reservation
and in Section 3.4.2 we discuss the sparse network case.

The DoS load state threshold is a function of bandwidth-in-progress, VNET
priority, and bandwidth allocation thresholds, as follows:

Table 3.1
Determination of Depth-of-Search (DoS) Load State Threshold
(Per-VNET Bandwidth Allocation, Meshed Network)

Note that BWIP, BWavg, and BWmax are specified per ON-DN pair, and that the
QoS resource management method provides for a key priority VNET, a normal
priority VNET, and a best effort VNET.  Key services admitted by an ON on
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path selection DoS than normal services admitted on the normal VNET.  Best
effort services admitted on the best effort VNET are given lower priority
routing treatment by allowing lesser path selection DoS than normal.  The
quantities BWavgi are computed periodically, such as every week w, and can
be exponentially averaged over a several week period, as follows:

        BWavgi(w)       =       .5 x  BWavgi(w-1) + .5 x [ BWIPavgi(w) +
                                BWOVavgi(w) ]
        BWIPavgi        =       average bandwidth-in-progress across a load
                                set period on VNET i
        BWOVavgi        =       average bandwidth allocation request
                                rejected (or overflow) across a load set
                                period on VNET i

where all variables are specified per ON-DN pair, and where BWIPi and BWOVi
are averaged across various load set periods, such as morning, afternoon,
and evening averages for weekday, Saturday, and Sunday,  to obtain BWIPavgi
and BWOVavgi.


Table 3.2
Determination of Link Load State
(Meshed Network)

Link Load State         Condition
Busy            B       ILBWk < DBW
Reserved        R       ILBWk * Rthrk
Heavily Loaded  HL      Rthrk < ILBWk * HLthrk
Lightly Loaded  LL      HLthrk < ILBWk

where

        ILBWk           =       idle link bandwidth on link k
        DBW             =       delta bandwidth requirement for a bandwidth
                                allocation
                                request
        Rthrk           =       reservation bandwidth threshold for link k
                        =       N x .05 x TBWk for bandwidth reservation
                                level N
        HLthrk          =       heavily loaded bandwidth threshold for link
                                k
                        =       Rthrk + .05 x TRBWk
        TRBWk           =       the total bandwidth required on link k to
                                meet the blocking/delay
                                probability grade-of-service objective for
                                bandwidth
                                allocation requests on their first choice
                                CRLSP.

QoS resource management implements bandwidth reservation logic to favor
connections routed on the first choice CRLSP in situations of link
congestion.  If link congestion (or blocking/delay) is detected, bandwidth
reservation is immediately triggered and the reservation level N is set for
the link according to the level of link congestion.  In this manner
bandwidth allocation requests attempting to alternate-path over a congested
link are subject to bandwidth reservation, and the first choice CRLSP
requests are favored for that link.  At the same time, the LL and HL link

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state thresholds are raised accordingly in order to accommodate the reserved
bandwidth capacity N for the VNET. Figure 3.4 illustrates bandwidth
allocation and the mechanisms by which bandwidth is protected through
bandwidth reservation.  Under normal bandwidth allocation demands bandwidth
is fully shared, but under overloaded bandwidth allocation demands,
bandwidth is protected through the reservation mechanisms wherein each VNET
can use its allocated bandwidth.  Under failure, however, the reservation
mechanisms operate to give the key VNET its allocated bandwidth before the
normal priority VNET gets its bandwidth allocation.  As noted on Table 3.1,
the best effort low-priority VNET is not allocated bandwidth nor is
bandwidth reserved for the best effort VNET. Further illustrations are given
in Section 3.9 of the robustness of dynamic bandwidth reservation in
protecting the preferred bandwidth requests across wide variations in
traffic conditions.

Figure 3.4  Bandwidth Allocation, Protection, & Priority Routing

The reservation level N (for example, N may have 1 of 4 levels), is
calculated for each link k based on the link blocking/delay level of
bandwidth allocation requests.  The link blocking/delay level is equal to
the total requested but rejected (or overflow) link bandwidth allocation
(measured in total bandwidth), divided by the total requested link bandwidth
allocation, over the last periodic update interval, which is, for example,
every three minutes.  That is

        BWOVk                   =       total requested bandwidth allocation
                                        rejected (or overflow) on
                                        link k
        BWOFk                   =       total requested or offered bandwidth
                                        allocation on link k
        LBLk                    =       link blocking/delay level on link k
                                =       BWOVk/BWOFk

If LBLk exceeds a threshold value, the reservation level N is calculated
accordingly.  The reserved bandwidth and link states are calculated based on
the total link bandwidth required on link k, TRBWk, which is computed
on-line, for example every 1-minute interval m, and approximated as follows:

        TRBWk(m)                =       .5 x  TRBWk(m-1) +
                                        .5 x [ 1.1 x  TBWIPk(m) +  TBWOVk(m) ]
        TBWIPk                  =       sum of the bandwidth in progress
                                        (BWIPi) for all VNETs i
                                        for bandwidth requests on their
                                        first choice CRLSP over link k
        TBWOVk                  =       sum of bandwidth overflow (BWOVi) for all
                                        VNETs i
                                        for bandwidth requests on their
                                        first choice CRLSP over link k

Therefore the reservation level and load state boundary thresholds are
proportional to the estimated required bandwidth load, which means that the
bandwidth reserved and the bandwidth required to constitute a lightly loaded
link rise and fall with the bandwidth load, as, intuitively, they should.

3.4.2   Per-VNET Bandwidth Allocation/Reservation - Sparse Network Case

Here we discuss a sparse network example of bandwidth

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allocation/reservation.  For the sparse network case of bandwidth
reservation, a simpler method is illustrated which takes advantage of the
concentration of traffic onto fewer, higher capacity backbone links.  A
small, fixed level of bandwidth reservation is used and permanently enabled
on each link, as follows:

The DoS load state threshold again is a function of bandwidth-in-progress,
VNET priority, and bandwidth allocation thresholds, however only the
reserved (R) and non-reserved (NR) states are used, as follows:

Table 3.3
Determination of Depth-of-Search (DoS) Load State Threshold
(Per-VNET Bandwidth Allocation, Sparse Network)

where

        BWIPi           =       bandwidth-in-progress on VNET i
        BWavgi          =       minimum guaranteed bandwidth required for
                                VNET i to carry the
                                average offered bandwidth load
        BWmaxi          =       the bandwidth required for VNET i to meet the
                                blocking/delay probability
                                grade-of-service objective for CRLSP
                                bandwidth allocation requests
                        =       1.1 x BWavgi
        Note 1          =       CRLSPs for the best effort priority VNET are
                                allocated zero bandwidth;
                                Diffserv queuing admits best effort packets
                                only if  there is available
                                bandwidth on a link


The corresponding load state table for the sparse network case is as
follows:

Table 3.4
Determination of Link Load State (Sparse Network)

Link Load State         Condition
Busy            B       ILBWk < DBW
Reserved        R       ILBWk  - RBWrk < DBW
Not Reserved    NR      DBW *  ILBWk  - RBWrk

where

        ILBWk           =       idle link bandwidth on link k
        DBW             =       delta bandwidth requirement for a bandwidth
                                allocation
                                request
        RBWrk           =       reserved bandwidth for link k
                        =       .01 x TLBWk
        TLBWk           =       the total link bandwidth on link k

Note that reservation level is fixed and not dependent on any link blocking
level (LBL) calculation or total required bandwidth (TRBW) calculation.
Therefore LBL and TRBW monitoring are not required in this example bandwidth
allocation/protection method.

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3.5     Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation, Protection, and Reservation

Per-flow QoS resource management methods have been applied successfully in
TDM-based networks, where bandwidth allocation is determined by edge nodes
based on bandwidth demand for each connection request.  Based on the
bandwidth demand, these edge nodes make changes in bandwidth allocation
using for example an SVC-based QoS resource management approach illustrated
in this Section.  Again, the determination of the link load states is used
for QoS resource management in order to select network capacity on either
the first choice path or alternate paths.  Also the allowed DoS load state
threshold determines if an individual connection request can be admitted on
a given link to an available bandwidth "depth."  In setting up each
connection request, the ON encodes the DoS load state threshold allowed on
each link in the connection-setup IE.  If a link is encountered at a VN in
which the idle link bandwidth and link load state are below the allowed DoS
load state threshold, then the VN sends a crankback/bandwidth-not-available
IE to the ON, which can then route the connection request to an alternate
path choice.  For example, in Figure 3.3, path A-B-E may be the first path
tried where link A-B is in the LL state and link B-E is in the R state.  If
the DoS load state allowed is HL or better, then the connection request is
routed on link A-B but will not be admitted on link B-E, wherein the
connection request will be cranked back to the originating node A to try
alternate path A-C-D-E.  Here the connection request succeeds since all
links have a state of HL or better.

3.5.1   Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation/Reservation - Meshed Network Case

Here again, two approaches are illustrated for bandwidth allocation
reservation: one applicable to meshed network topologies and the other
applicable to sparse topologies.  In meshed networks, a greater number of
links results in less traffic carried per link, and functions such as
bandwidth reservation need to be more carefully controlled than in a sparse
network.  In a sparse network the traffic is concentrated on much larger,
and many fewer links, and here bandwidth reservation does not have to be as
carefully management (such as automatically triggering bandwidth reservation
on and off, dependent on the link/network congestion level).

Here we discuss a meshed network example of bandwidth allocation/reservation
and in Section 3.5.2 we discuss the sparse network case.

The illustrative DoS load state threshold is a function of
bandwidth-in-progress, service priority, and bandwidth allocation
thresholds, as follows:

Table 3.5
Determination of Depth-of-Search (DoS) Load State Threshold
(Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation, Meshed Network)

where

        BWIPi           =       bandwidth-in-progress on VNET i
        BWavgi          =       minimum guaranteed bandwidth required for
                                VNET i to carry the average
                                offered bandwidth load
        BWmaxi          =       the bandwidth required for VNET i to meet the
                                blocking/delay

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                                probability grade-of-service objective  =
                                1.1 x BWavgi

Note that all parameters are specified per ON-DN pair, and that the QoS
resource management method provides for key service and best effort service.
Key services are given higher priority routing treatment by allowing greater
path selection DoS than normal services.  Best effort services are given
lower priority routing treatment by allowing lesser path selection DoS than
normal.  The quantities BWavgi are computed periodically, such as every week
w, and can be exponentially averaged over a several week period, as follows:

        BWavgi(w)       =       .5 x  BWavgi(w-1) + .5 x [ BWIPavgi(w) +
                                BWOVavgi(w) ]
        BWIPavgi        =       average bandwidth-in-progress across a load
                                set period on VNET i
        BWOVavgi        =       average bandwidth overflow across a load set
                                period

where BWIPi and BWOVi are averaged across various load set periods, such as
morning, afternoon, and evening averages for weekday, Saturday, and Sunday,
to obtain BWIPavgi and BWOVavgi.  Illustrative values of the thresholds to
determine link load states are given in Table 3.2.

The illustrative QoS resource management method implements bandwidth
reservation logic to favor connections routed on the first choice path in
situations of link congestion.  If link blocking/delay is detected,
bandwidth reservation is immediately triggered and the reservation level N
is set for the link according to the level of link congestion.  In this
manner traffic attempting to alternate-route over a congested link is
subject to bandwidth reservation, and the first choice path traffic is
favored for that link.  At the same time, the LL and HL link state
thresholds are raised accordingly in order to accommodate the reserved
bandwidth capacity for the VNET.  The reservation level N (for example, N
may have 1 of 4 levels), is calculated for each link k based on the link
blocking/delay level and the estimated link traffic.  The link
blocking/delay level is equal to the equivalent bandwidth overflow count
divided by the equivalent bandwidth peg count over the last periodic update
interval, which is typically three minutes.  That is

        BWOVk           =       equivalent bandwidth overflow count on link k
        BWPCk           =       equivalent bandwidth peg count on link k
        LBLk            =       link blocking/delay level on link k
                        =       BWOVk/BWPCk

If LBLk exceeds a threshold value, the reservation level N is calculated
accordingly.  The reserved bandwidth and link states are calculated based on
the total link bandwidth required on link k, TBWk, which is computed
on-line, for example every 1-minute interval m, and approximated as follows:

        TBWk(m)         =       .5 x  TBWk(m-1) + .5 x [ 1.1 x  TBWIPk(m) +
                                TBWOVk(m) ]
        TBWIPk          =       sum of the bandwidth in progress (BWIPi) for
                                all VNETs i
                                for connections on their first choice path
                                over link k
        TBWOVk          =       sum of bandwidth overflow (BWOVi) for all VNETs i
                                for connections on their first choice path

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                                over link k

Therefore the reservation level and load state boundary thresholds are
proportional to the estimated required bandwidth traffic load, which means
that the bandwidth reserved and the bandwidth required to constitute a
lightly loaded link rise and fall with the traffic load, as, intuitively,
they should.

3.5.2   Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation/Reservation - Sparse Network Case

Here we discuss a sparse network example of bandwidth
allocation/reservation.  For the sparse network case of bandwidth
reservation, a simpler method is illustrated which takes advantage of the
concentration of traffic onto fewer, higher capacity backbone links.  A
small, fixed level of bandwidth reservation is used on each link, as
follows:

The DoS load state threshold again is a function of bandwidth-in-progress,
VNET priority, and bandwidth allocation thresholds, however only the
reserved (R) and non-reserved (NR) states are used, as follows:

Table 3.6
Determination of Depth-of-Search (DoS) Load State Threshold
(Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation, Sparse Network)

where

        BWIPi           =       bandwidth-in-progress on VNET i
        BWavgi          =       minimum guaranteed bandwidth required for
                                VNET i to carry the
                                average offered bandwidth load
        BWmaxi          =       the bandwidth required for VNET i to meet the
                                blocking/delay probability
                                grade-of-service objective = 1.1 x BWavgi
        Note 1          =       CRLSPs for the best effort priority VNET are
                                allocated zero bandwidth;
                                Diffserv queuing admits best effort packets
                                only if  there is available
                                bandwidth on a link


The corresponding load state table for the sparse network case is as
follows:

Table 3.7
Determination of Link Load State (Sparse Network)

Link Load State         Condition
Busy            B       ILBWk < EQBW
Reserved        R       ILBWk  - RBWrk < EQBW
Not Reserved    NR      EQBW *  ILBWk  - RBWrk

where

        ILBWk           =       idle link bandwidth on link k
        EQBW            =       equivalent bandwidth requirement for a
                                bandwidth allocation

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                                request
        RBWrk           =       reserved bandwidth for link k
                        =       .01 x TLBWk
        TLBWk           =       the total link bandwidth on link k

Note that reservation level is fixed and not dependent on any link blocking
level (LBL) calculation or total required bandwidth (TRBW) calculation.
Therefore LBL and TRBW monitoring are not required in this example.

3.6     Priority Queuing

QoS resource management functions include class-of-service identification,
routing table derivation, connection admission, bandwidth allocation,
bandwidth protection, bandwidth reservation, priority routing, and priority
queuing.  In this Section we discuss priority queuing.

In addition to the QoS bandwidth management procedure for bandwidth
allocation requests, a QoS priority of service queuing capability is used
during the time connections are established on each of the three VNETs.  At
each link, a queuing discipline is maintained such that the packets being
served are given priority in the following order: key VNET services, normal
VNET services, and best effort VNET services. Following the MPLS CRLSP
bandwidth allocation setup and the application of QoS resource management
rules, the priority of service parameter and label parameter need to be sent
in each IP packet, as illustrated in Figure 3.5. The priority of service
parameter may be included in the type of service (ToS), or differentiated
services (DiffServ) [RFC2475, LDVKCH00, ST98], parameter already in the IP
packet header.  Another possible alternative is that the priority of service
parameter can be associated with the MPLS label appended to the IP packet
[LDVKCH00].  In either case, from the priority of service parameters, the IP
node can determine the QoS treatment based on the QoS resource management
(priority queuing) rules for key VNET packets, normal VNET packets, and best
effort VNET packets.  From the label parameter, the IP node can determine
the next node to route the IP packet to as defined by the MPLS protocol.  In
this way, the backbone nodes can have a very simple per-packet processing
implementation to implement QoS resource management and MPLS routing.

Figure 3.5  IP Packet Structure under MPLS Switching

3.7     Other QoS Resource Management Constraints

Other QoS routing constraints are taken into account in the QoS resource
management and route selection methods in addition to bandwidth allocation,
bandwidth protection, and priority routing.  These include end-to-end
transfer delay, delay variation [G99a], and transmission quality
considerations such as loss, echo, and noise [D99, G99a, G99b].
Additionally, link capability (LC) selection allows connection requests to
be routed on specific transmission media that have the particular
characteristics required by these connection requests.  In general, a
connection request can require, prefer, or avoid a set of transmission
characteristics such as fiber optic or radio transmission, satellite or
terrestrial transmission, or compressed or uncompressed transmission.  The
routing table logic allows the connection request to skip links that have
undesired characteristics and to seek a best match for the requirements of
the connection request.  For any SI, a set of LC selection preferences  is
specified for the connection request. LC selection preferences can override
the normal order of selection of paths.  If a LC characteristic is required,

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then any path with a link that does not have that characteristic is skipped.
If a characteristic is preferred, paths having all links with that
characteristic are used first.  Paths having links without the preferred
characteristic will be used next.  A LC preference  is set for the presence
or absence of a characteristic.  For example, if fiberoptic transmission is
required, then only paths with links having Fiberoptic=Yes are used.  If we
prefer the presence of fiberoptic transmission, then paths having all links
with Fiberoptic=Yes are used first, then paths having some links with
Fiberoptic=No.

3.8     Interdomain QoS Resource Management

In current practice, interdomain routing protocols generally do not
incorporate standardized path selection or per class-of-service QoS resource
management.  For example, in IP-based networks BGP [RL00] is used for
interdomain routing but does not incorporate per class-of-service resource
allocation as described in this Section.  Also, MPLS techniques have not yet
been addressed for interdomain applications.  Extensions to interdomain
routing methods discussed in this Section therefore can be considered to
extend the call routing and connection routing concepts to routing between
network domains.

Interdomain routing can also apply class-of-service routing concepts
described in Section 3.2 and increased routing flexibility for interdomain
routing. Principles discussed in Section 3.2 for class-of-service derivation
and policy-based routing table derivation also apply in the case of
interdomain QoS resource management.  As described in ANNEX 2, interdomain
routing works synergistically with multiple ingress/egress routing and
alternate routing through transit domains.   Interdomain routing can use
link status information in combination with call completion history to
select paths and also use dynamic bandwidth reservation techniques, as
discussed in Sections 3.3 to 3.7.

Interdomain routing can use the virtual network concept that enables service
integration by allocating bandwidth for services and using dynamic bandwidth
reservation controls. These virtual network concepts have been described in
this ANNEX, and can be extended directly to interdomain routing.  For
example, the links connected to the originating domain gateway nodes, such
as links OCN1-DGN1, OGN2-DGN1, OGN1-VGN1, OGN1-VGN2, and OGN2-VGN2 in Figure
2.5, can define VNET bandwidth allocation, protection, reservation, and
routing methods, exactly as discussed in Sections 3.3 to 3.7.  In that way,
bandwidth can be fully shared among virtual networks in the absence of
congestion. When a certain virtual network encounters congestion, bandwidth
is reserved to ensure that the virtual network reaches its allocated
bandwidth. Interdomain routing can employ class-of-service routing
capabilities including key service protection, directional flow control,
link selection capability, automatically updated time-variable bandwidth
allocation, and alternate routing capability through the use of overflow
paths and control parameters such as interdomain routing load set periods.
Link selection capability allows specific link characteristics, such as
fiber transmission, to be preferentially selected.  Thereby interdomain
routing can improve performance and reduce the cost of the interdomain
network with flexible routing capabilities, such as described in ANNEX 2
(Section 2.8).

Similar to intradomain routing, interdomain routing may include the
following steps for call establishment:

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1.      At the originating gateway node (OGN), the destination gateway node
(DGN), SI, VNET, and QoS resource management information are determined
through the number/name translation database and other service information
available at the OGN.
2.      The DGN and QoS resource management information are used to access
the appropriate VNET and routing table between the OGN and DGN.
3.      The connection request is set up over the first available path in
the routing table with the required transmission resource selected based on
the QoS resource management data.

The rules for selecting the interdomain primary path and alternate paths for
a call can be governed by the availability of primary path bandwidth,
node-to-node congestion, and link capability, as described in Sections 3.3
to 3.7. The path sequence consists of the primary shortest path, lightly
loaded alternate paths, heavily loaded alternate paths, and reserved
alternate paths, where these load states are further refined by combining
link load state information with path congestion state information, as
described in Section 2.7. Interdomain alternate paths which include nodes in
the originating domain and terminating domain are selected before alternate
paths which include transit domain nodes are selected.  As described in
Sections 3.4 and 3.5, greater path selection depth is allowed if congestion
is detected to the destination network domain, because more alternate path
choices serve to reduce the congestion. During periods of no congestion,
capacity not needed by one virtual network is made available to other
virtual networks that are experiencing loads above their allocation.

The gateway node, for example, may automatically compute the bandwidth
allocations once a week and may use a different allocation for various load
set periods, for example each of 36 two-hour load set periods: 12 weekday,
12 Saturday, and 12 Sunday. The allocation of the bandwidth can be based on
a rolling average of the traffic load for each of the virtual networks, to
each destination node, in each of the load set periods. Under normal network
conditions in which there is no congestion, all virtual networks fully share
all available capacity.  Under call overload, however, link bandwidth is
reserved to ensure that each virtual network gets the amount of bandwidth
allotted. This dynamic bandwidth reservation during times of overload
results in network performance that is analogous to having the link
bandwidth allocation between the two nodes dedicated for each VNET.

3.9     Modeling of Traffic Engineering Methods

In this Section, we again use the full-scale national network model
developed in ANNEX 2 to study various TE scenarios and tradeoffs.  The
135-node national model is illustrated in Figure 2.6, the multiservice
traffic demand model is summarized in Table 2.1, and the cost model is
summarized in Table 2.2.

3.9.1   Performance of Bandwidth Reservation Methods

As discussed in Section 3.3, dynamic bandwidth reservation can be used to
favor one category of traffic over another category of traffic.  A simple
example of the use of this method is to reserve bandwidth in order to prefer
traffic on the shorter primary paths over traffic using longer alternate
paths.  This is most efficiently done by using a method which reserves
bandwidth only when congestion exists on links in the network.  We now give
illustrations of this method, and compare the performance of a network in

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which bandwidth reservation is used under congestion to the case when
bandwidth reservation is not used.

In the example, traffic is first routed on the shortest path, and then
allowed to alternate route on longer paths if the primary path in not
available.  In the case where bandwidth reservation is used, five percent of
the link bandwidth is reserved for traffic on the primary path when
congestion is present on the link.

Table 3.4 illustrates the performance of bandwidth reservation methods for a
high-day network load pattern.  This is the case for multilink path routing
being used in to set up per-flow CRLSPs in a sparse network topology.

Table 3.4
Performance of Dynamic Bandwidth Reservation Methods for CRLSP Setup
Percent Lost/Delayed Traffic under Overload
(Per-Flow Multilink Path Routing in Sparse Network Topology; 135-Node
Multiservice Network Model)

We can see from the results of Table 3.4 that performance improves when
bandwidth reservation is used.  The reason for the poor performance without
bandwidth reservation is due to the lack of reserved capacity to favor
traffic routed on the more direct primary paths under network congestion
conditions.  Without bandwidth reservation nonhierarchical networks can
exhibit unstable behavior in which essentially all connections are
established on longer alternate paths as opposed to shorter primary paths,
which greatly reduces network throughput and increases network congestion
[Aki84, Kru82, NaM73].  If we add the bandwidth reservation mechanism, then
performance of the network is greatly improved.

Another example is given in Table 3.5, where 2-link SDR is used in a meshed
network topology.  In this case, the average business day loads for a
65-node national network model were inflated uniformly by 30 percent [A98].
The Table gives the average hourly lost traffic due to blocking of
connection admissions in hours 2, 3,  and 5, which correspond to the two
early morning busy hours and the afternoon busy hour.

Table 3.5
Performance of Dynamic Bandwidth Reservation Methods
Percent Lost Traffic under 30% Overload
(Per-Flow 2-link SDR in Meshed Network Topology; 65-Node Network Model)

Again, we can see from the results of Table 3.5 that performance
dramatically improves when bandwidth reservation is used.  A clear
instability arises when bandwidth reservation is not used, because under
congestion a network state in which virtually all traffic occupies 2 links
instead of 1 link is predominant.  When bandwidth reservation is used, flows
are much more likely to be routed on a 1-link path, because the bandwidth
reservation mechanism makes it less likely that a 2-link path can be found
in which both links have idle capacity in excess of the reservation level.

A performance comparison is given in Table 3.6 for a single link failure in
a 135-node design averaged over 5 network busy hours, for the case without
bandwidth reservation and with bandwidth reservation.  Clearly the use of
bandwidth reservation protects the performance of each virtual network
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Table 3.6
Performance of Dynamic Bandwidth Reservation Methods
Percent Lost/Delayed Traffic under 50% General Overload
(Multilink STT-EDR; 135-Node Network Model)

3.9.2   Multiservice Network Performance: Per-VNET vs. Per-Flow Bandwidth
Allocation

Here we use the 135-node model to compare the per-virtual-network methods of
QoS resource, as described in Section 3.3.2, and the per-flow methods
described in Section 3.3.3.  We look at these two cases in Figure 3.6, which
illustrates the case of per-virtual-network CRLSP bandwidth allocation the
case of per-flow CRLSP bandwidth allocation.  The two figures compare the
performance in terms of lost or delayed traffic under a focused overload
scenario on the Oakbrook (OKBK), IL node (such as might occur, for example,
with a radio call-in give-away offer).  The size of the focused overload is
varied from the normal load (1X case) to a 10 times overload of the traffic
to OKBK (10X case).  Here a fixed routing (FR) CRLSP bandwidth allocation is
used for both the per-flow CRLSP bandwidth allocation case and the
per-virtual-network bandwidth allocation case.  The results show that the
per-flow and per-virtual-network bandwidth allocation performance is
similar; however, the improved performance of the key priority traffic and
normal priority traffic in relation to the best-effort priority traffic is
clearly evident.

Figure 3.6  Performance under Focused Overload on OKBR Node

The performance analyses for overloads and failures for the per-flow and
per-virtual-network bandwidth allocation are now examined in which event
dependent routing (EDR) with success-to-the-top (STT) path selection are
used.  Again the simulations include call admission control with QoS
resource management, in which we distinguish the key services, normal
services, and best-effort services as indicated in the tables below.  Table
3.7 gives performance results for a 30% general overload, Table 3.8 gives
performance results for a six-times overload on a single network node, and
Table 3.9 gives performance results for a single transport link failure.
Performance analysis results show that the multilink STT-EDR per-flow
bandwidth allocation and per-virtual-network bandwidth allocation options
perform similarly under overloads and failures.

Table 3.7
Performance of Per-Flow & Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
Percent Lost/Delayed Traffic under 30% General Overload
(Single-Area Flat Network Topology; Multilink STT-EDR Routing; 135-Node
Network Model)

Table 3.8
Performance of Per-Flow & Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
Percent Lost/Delayed Traffic under 6X Focused Overload on OKBK
(Single-Area Flat Network Topology; Multilink STT-EDR Routing; 135-Node
Network Model)

Table 3.9
Performance of Per-Flow & Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
Percent Lost/Delayed Traffic under Failure on CHCG-NYCM Link
(Single-Area Flat Network Topology; Multilink STT-EDR Routing; 135-Node
Network Model)

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3.9.3   Multiservice Network Performance: Multi-Area 2-Level Hierarchical
vs. Single-Area Flat Topology

We also investigate the performance of hierarchical network designs, which
represent the topological configuration to be expected with multi-area (or
multi-autonomous-system (multi-AS), or multi-domain) networks.  In Figure
3.7 we show the model considered, which consists of 135 edge nodes each
homed onto one of 21 backbone nodes.

Figure 3.7  Hierarchical Network Model

Typically, the edge nodes may be grouped into separate areas or autonomous
systems, and the backbone nodes into another area or autonomous system.
Within each area a flat routing topology exists, however between edge areas
and the backbone area a hierarchical routing relationship exists.  This
routing hierarchy is modeled for both the per-flow and per-virtual-network
bandwidth allocation examples, and the results are given in Tables 3.10 to
3.12 for the 30% general overload, 6-times focused overload, and link
failure examples, respectively.  We can see that the performance of the
hierarchical network case is substantially worse than the flat network
model, which models a single area or autonomous system consisting of 135
nodes.

Table 3.10
Performance of Multi-Area 2-Level Hierarchical Network Topology
Percent Lost/Delayed Traffic under 30% General Overload
Per-Flow & Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
(Multilink STT-EDR Routing; 135-Node Network Model)

Table 3.11
Performance of Multi-Area 2-Level Hierarchical Network Topology
Percent Lost/Delayed Traffic under 6X Focused Overload on OKBK
Per-Flow & Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
(Multilink STT-EDR Routing; 135-Node Network Model)

Table 3.12
Performance of Multi-Area 2-Level Hierarchical Network Topology
Percent Lost/Delayed Traffic under Failure on CHCG-NYCM Link
Per-Flow & Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
(Multilink STT-EDR Routing; 135-Node Network Model)

3.9.4   Multiservice Network Performance: Need for MPLS & DiffServ

We illustrate the operation of MPLS and DiffServ in the multiservice network
model with some examples.  First suppose there is 10 mbps of normal-priority
traffic and 10 mbps of best-effort priority traffic being carried in the
network between node A and node B.  Best-effort traffic is treated in the
model as UBR traffic and is not allocated any bandwidth.  Hence the
best-effort traffic does not get any CRLSP bandwidth allocation, and is not
treated as MPLS forward equivalence class (FEC) traffic.  As such, the
best-effort traffic would be routed by the interior gateway protocol, or
IGP, such as OSPF.  Hence the best-effort traffic cannot be denied bandwidth
allocation as a means to throttle back such traffic at the edge router,
which can be done with the normal-priority and key-priority traffic (i.e.,
normal and key traffic could be denied bandwidth allocation).  The only way
that the best-effort traffic gets dropped/lost is to drop it at the queues,

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therefore it is essential that the traffic that is allocated bandwidth on
the CRLSPs have higher priority at the queues than the best-effort traffic.
Therefore in the model the three classes of traffic get these DiffServ
markings: best-effort get no-DiffServ marking, which ensures that it will
get best-effort priority queuing treatment.  Normal-priority traffic gets
the assured forwarding (AF) DiffServ marking, which is a middle priority
level of queuing treatment, and key-priority traffic gets the expedited
forwarding (EF) DiffServ marking, which is the highest priority queuing
level.

Now suppose that there is 30 mbps of bandwidth available between A and B and
that all the normal-priority and best-effort traffic is getting through.
Now suppose that the traffic for both the normal-priority and best-effort
traffic increases to 20 mbps.  The normal-priority traffic requests and gets
a CRLSP bandwidth allocation increase to 20 mbps on the A to B CRLSP.
However, the best-effort traffic, since it has no CRLSP assigned and
therefore no bandwidth allocation, is just sent into the network at 20 mbps.
Since there is only 30 mbps of bandwidth available from A to B, the network
must drop 10 mbps of best-effort traffic in order to leave room for the 20
mbps of normal-priroity traffic.  The way this is done in the model is
through the queuing mechanisms governed by the DiffServ priority settings on
each category of traffic.  Through the DiffServ marking, the queuing
mechanisms in the model discard about 10 mbps of the best-effort traffic at
the priority queues.  If the DiffServ markings were not used, then the
normal-priority and best-effort traffic would compete equally on the
first-in/first-out (FIFO) queues, and perhaps 15 mbps of each would get
through, which is not the desired situation.

Taking this example further, if the normal-priority and best-effort traffic
both increase to 40 mbps, then the normal-priority traffic tries to get a
CRLSP bandwidth allocation increase to 40 mbps.  However, the most it can
get is 30 mbps, so 10 mbps is denied for the normal-priority traffic in the
MPLS constraint-based routing procedure.  By having the DiffServ markings of
AF on the normal-priority traffic and none on the best-effort traffic,
essentially all the best-effort traffic is dropped at the queues since the
normal-priority traffic is allocated and gets the full 30 mbps of A to B
bandwidth.  If there were no DiffServ markings, then again perhaps 15 mbps
of both normal-priority and best-effort get through.  Or in this case,
perhaps a greater amount of best-effort traffic is carried than
normal-priority traffic, since 40 mbps of best-effort traffic is sent into
the network and only 30 mbps of normal-priority traffic is sent into the
network, and the FIFO queues will receive more best-effort pressure than
normal-priority pressure.

Some general observations on the operation of MPLS and DiffServ in the
multiservice TE models include the following:

1. In a multiservice network environment, with best-effort priority traffic
(WWW traffic, email, ..), normal-priority traffic (CBR voice, IP-telephony
voice, switched digital service, ..), and key-priority traffic (800-gold,
incoming international, ..) sharing the same network, MPLS bandwidth
allocation plus DiffServ/priority-queuing are both needed.  In the models
the normal-priority and key-priority traffic use MPLS to receive bandwidth
allocation while the best-effort traffic gets no bandwidth allocation. Under
congestion (e.g., from overloads or failures), the DiffServ/priority-queuing
mechanisms push out the best-effort priority traffic at the queues so that
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MPLS-allocated CRLSP bandwidth.

2. In a multiservice network where the normal-priority and key-priority
traffic use MPLS to receive bandwidth allocation and there is no best-effort
priority traffic, then the DiffServ/priority queuing becomes less important.
This is because the MPLS bandwidth allocation more-or-less assures that the
queues will not overflow, and perhaps therefore DiffServ would not be needed
as much.

3. As bandwidth gets more and more plentiful/lower-cost, the point at which
the MPLS and DiffServ mechanisms have a significant effect under traffic
overload goes to a higher and higher threshold.  For example, the models
show that the overload factor at which congestion occurs gets larger as the
bandwidth modules get larger (i.e., OC3 to OC12 to OC48 to OC192, etc.).
However, the congestion point will always be reached with failures and/or
large-enough overloads necessitating the MPLS/DiffServ mechanisms.

3.10     Conclusions/Recommendations

The conclusions/recommendations reached in this ANNEX are as follows:

*       Bandwidth reservation is critical to the stable and efficient
performance of TE methods in a network, and to ensure the proper operation
of multiservice bandwidth allocation, protection, and priority treatment.

*       Per-VNET bandwidth allocation is essentially equivalent to per-flow
bandwidth allocation in network performance and efficiency.  Because of the
much lower routing table management overhead requirements, as discussed and
modeled in ANNEX 4, per-VNET bandwidth allocation is preferred to per-flow
allocation.

*       Single-area flat topologies exhibit better network performance and,
as discussed and modeled in ANNEX 6, greater design efficiencies in
comparison with multi-area hierarchical topologies.   As illustrated in
ANNEX 4, larger administrative areas can be achieved through use of
EDR-based TE methods as compared to SDR-based TE methods.

*       QoS resource management is shown to be effective in achieving key
service, normal service, and best effort service differentiation.

*       Both MPLS QoS and bandwidth management and DiffServ priority queuing
management are important for ensuring that multiservice network performance
objectives are met under a range of network conditions.  Both mechanisms
operate together to ensure QoS resource allocation mechanisms (bandwidth
allocation, protection, and priority queuing) are achieved.

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ANNEX 4
Routing Table Management Methods & Requirements

Traffic Engineering & QoS Methods for IP-, ATM-, & TDM-Based Multiservice
Networks


4.1     Introduction

Routing table management typically entails the automatic generation of
routing tables based on network topology and other information such as
status.  Routing table management information, such as topology update,
status information, or routing recommendations, is used for purposes of
applying the routing table design rules for determining path choices in the
routing table.  This information is exchanged between one node and another
node, such as between the originating node (ON) and destination node (DN),
for example, or between a node and a network element such as a
bandwidth-broker processor (BBP).  This information is used to generate the
routing table, and then the routing table is used to determine the path
choices used in the selection of a path.

This automatic generation function is enabled by the automatic exchange of
link, node, and reachable address information among the network nodes. In
order to achieve automatic update and synchronization of the topology
database, which is essential for routing table management, IP- and ATM-based
based networks already interpret HELLO protocol mechanisms to identify links
in the network. For topology database synchronization the link state
advertisement (LSA) is used in IP-based networks, and the PNNI
topology-state-element (PTSE) exchange is used in ATM-based networks, to
automatically provision nodes, links, and reachable addresses in the
topology database.  Use of a single peer group/autonomous system for
topology update leads to more efficient routing and easier administration,
and is best achieved by minimizing the use of topology state (LSA and PTSE)
flooding for dynamic topology state information. It is required in Section
4.5 that a topology state element (TSE) be developed within TDM-based
networks. When this is the case, then the HELLO and LSA/TSE/PTSE parameters
will become the standard topology update method for interworking across IP-,
ATM-, and TDM-based networks.

Status update methods are required for use in routing table management
within and between network types. In TDM-based networks, status updates of
link and/or node status are used [E.350, E.351].  Within IP- and ATM-based
networks, status updates are provided by a flooding mechanism. It is
required in Section 4.5 that a routing status element (RSE) be developed
within TDM-based networks, which will be compatible with the PNNI topology
state element (PTSE) in ATM-based networks and the link state advertisement
(LSA) element in IP-based networks. When this is the case, then the
RSE/PTSE/LSA parameters will become the standard status update method for
interworking across TDM-, ATM-, and IP-based networks.

Query for status methods are required for use in routing table management
within and between network types.  Such methods allow efficient
determination of status information, as compared to flooding mechanisms.
Such query for status methods are provided in TDM-based networks [E.350,
E.351].  It is required in Section 4.5 that a routing query element (RQE) be
developed within ATM-based and IP-based networks. When this is the case,
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interworking across TDM-, ATM-, and IP-based networks.

Routing recommendation methods are proposed for use in routing table
management within and between network types.  For example, such methods
provide for a database, such as a BBP, to advertise recommended paths to
network nodes based on status information available in the database.  Such
routing recommendation methods are provided in TDM-based networks [E.350,
E.351]. It is required in Section 4.5 that a routing recommendation element
(RRE) be developed within ATM-based and IP-based networks. When this is the
case, then the RRE parameters will become the standard query for status
method for interworking across TDM-, ATM-, and IP-based networks.

4.2     Routing Table Management for IP-Based Networks

IP networks typically run the OSPF protocol for intra-domain routing
[RFC2328, S95] and the BGP protocol for inter-domain routing [RL00, S95].
OSPF and BGP are designed for routing of datagram packets carrying
multimedia internet traffic.  Within OSPF, a link-state update topology
exchange mechanism is used by each IP node to construct its own shortest
path routing tables.  Through use of these routing tables, the IP nodes
match the destination IP address to the longest match in the table and
thereby determine the shortest path to the destination for each IP packet.
In current OSPF operation, this shortest path remains fixed unless a link is
added or removed (e.g., fails), and/or an IP node enters or leaves the
network.  However the protocol allows for possibly more sophisticated
dynamic routing mechanisms to be implemented.  MPLS is currently being
developed as a means by which IP networks may provide connection oriented,
QoS-routing services, such as with ATM layer-2 switching technology [RVC99],
and differentiated services (DiffServ) [RFC2475, ST98] is being developed to
provide priority queuing control in IP-based networks.  MPLS and DiffServ
both provide essential capabilities for QoS resource management, as
discussed in ANNEX 3.

These IP-based protocols provide for a) exchange of node and link status
information, b) automatic update and synchronization of topology databases,
and c) fixed and/or dynamic route selection based on topology and status
information. For topology database synchronization, each node in an IP-based
OSPF/BGP network exchanges HELLO packets with its immediate neighbors and
thereby determines its local state information. This state information
includes the identity and group membership of the node's immediate
neighbors, and the status of its links to the neighbors. Each node then
bundles its state information in LSAs, which are reliably flooded throughout
the autonomous system (AS), or group of nodes exchanging routing information
and using a common routing protocol, which is analogous to the PNNI peer
group used in ATM-based networks.  The LSAs are used to flood node
information, link state information, and reachability information.  As in
PNNI, some of the topology state information is static and some is dynamic.
In order to allow larger AS group sizes, a network can use OSPF in such a
way so as to minimize the amount of dynamic topology state information
flooding, such as available link bandwidth, by setting thresholds to values
that inhibit frequent updates.

IP-based routing of connection/bandwidth-allocation requests and QoS-routing
support are in the process of standardization primarily within the MPLS and
DiffServ [RFC2475, ST98] activities in the IETF.  The following assumptions
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a)      Call routing in support of connection establishment functions on a
per-connection basis to determine the routing address based on a name/number
translation, and uses a protocol such as H.323 [H.323] or the session
initiation protocol (SIP) [RFC2543].  It is assumed that the call routing
protocol interworks with the broadband ISDN user part (B-ISUP) [Q.2761] and
bearer-independent call control (BICC) protocols [Q.1901] to accommodate
setup and release of connection requests.
b)      Connection/bandwidth-allocation routing in support of bearer-path
selection is assumed to employ OSPF/BGP path selection methods in
combination with MPLS.  MPLS employs a constraint-based routing label
distribution protocol (CRLDP) [J00, CDFFSV99] or a resource reservation
protocol (RSVP) [RFC2205] to establish constraint-based routing label
switched paths (CRLSPs).  Bandwidth allocation to CRLSPs is managed in
support of QoS resource management, as discussed in ANNEX 3.
c)      The MPLS label request message (equivalent to the setup message)
carries the explicit route parameter specifying the via nodes (VNs) and
destination node (DN) in the selected CRLSP and the depth-of-search (DoS)
parameter specifying the allowed bandwidth selection threshold on a link.
d)      The MPLS notify (equivalent to the release) message is assumed to
carry the crankback/bandwidth-not-available parameter specifying return of
control of the connection/bandwidth-allocation request to the originating
node (ON), for possible further alternate routing to establish additional
CRLSPs.
e)      Call control routing is coordinated with
connection/bandwidth-allocation for bearer-path establishment.
f)      Reachability information is exchanged between all nodes. To
provision a new IP address, the node serving that IP address is provisioned.
The reachability information is flooded to all nodes in the network using
the OSPF LSA flooding mechanism.
g)      The ON performs destination name/number translation, service
processing, and all steps necessary to determine the routing table for the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request across the IP network. The ON makes
a connection/bandwidth-allocation request admission if bandwidth is
available and places the connection/bandwidth-allocation request on a
selected CRLSP.

IP-based networks employ an IP addressing method to identify node endpoints
[S94].  A mechanism is needed to translate E.164 AESAs to IP addresses in an
efficient manner.  Work is in progress [F00, B99] to interwork between IP
addressing and E.164 numbering/addressing, in which a translation database
is required, based on domain name system (DNS) technology, to convert E.164
addresses to IP addresses.  With such a capability, IP nodes could make this
translation of E.164 AESAs directly, and thereby provide interworking with
TDM- and ATM-based networks which use E.164 numbering and addressing.  If
this is the case, then E.164 AESAs could become a standard addressing method
for interworking across IP-, ATM-, and TDM-based networks.

As stated above, path selection in an IP-based network is assumed to employ
OSPF/BGP in combination with the MPLS protocol that functions efficiently in
combination with call control establishment of individual connections.  In
OSPF-based layer 3 routing, as illustrated in Figure 3.1, an ON N1
determines a list of shortest paths by using, for example, Dijsktra's
algorithm.

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This path list could be determined based on administrative weights of each
link, which are communicated to all nodes within the AS group.  These
administrative weights may be set, for example, to 1 + epsilon x distance,
where epsilon is a factor giving a relatively smaller weight to the distance
in comparison to the hop count.   The ON selects a path from the list based
on, for example, FR, TDR, SDR, or EDR path selection, as described in ANNEX
2.  For example, to establish a CRLSP on the first path, the ON N1 sends an
MPLS label request message to VN N2, which in turn forwards the MPLS label
request message to VN N3, and finally to DN N4.  The VNs N2 and N3 and DN N4
are passed in the explicit route (ER) parameter contained in the MPLS label
request message.  Each node in the path reads the ER information, and passes
the MPLS label request message to the next node listed in the ER parameter.
If the first-choice path is blocked at any of the links in the path, a MPLS
notify message with crankback/bandwidth-not-available parameter is returned
to the ON which can then attempt the next path.  If FR is used, then this
path is the next path in the shortest path list, for example path
N1-N6-N7-N8-N4.  If TDR is used, then the next path is the next path in the
routing table for the current time period.  If SDR is used, OSPF implements
a distributed method of flooding link status information, which is triggered
either periodically and/or by crossing load state threshold values.  As
described in the beginning of this Section, this method of distributing link
status information can be resource intensive and indeed may not be any more
efficient than simpler path selection methods such as EDR.  If EDR is used,
then the next path is the last successful path, and if that path is
unsuccessful another alternate path is searched out according to the EDR
path selection method.

Bandwidth-allocation control information is used to seize and modify
bandwidth allocation on LSPs, to release bandwidth on LSPs, and for purposes
of advancing the LSP choices in the routing table.   Existing CRLSP label
request (setup) and notify (release) messages, as described in [J00], can be
used with additional parameters to control CRLSP bandwidth modification, DoS
on a link, or CRLSP crankback/bandwidth-not-available to an ON for further
alternate routing to search out additional bandwidth on alternate CRLSPs.
Actual selection of a CRLSP is determined from the routing table, and CRLSP
control information is used to establish the path choice.  Forward
information exchange is used in CRLSP set up and bandwidth modification, and
includes for example the following parameters:

1.      LABEL REQUEST - ER: The explicit route (ER) parameter in MPLS
specifies each VN and the DN in the CRLSP, and used by each VN to determine
the next node in the path.
2.      LABEL REQUEST - DoS: The depth-of-search (DoS) parameter is used by
each VN to compare the load state on each CRLSP link to the allowed DoS
threshold to determine if the MPLS setup or modification request is admitted
or blocked on that link.
3.      LABEL REQUEST - MODIFY: The MODIFY parameter is used by each VN/DN
to update the traffic parameters (e.g., committed data rate) on an existing
CRLSP to determine if the MPLS modification request is admitted or blocked
on each link in the CRLSP.

The setup-priority parameter serves as a DoS parameter in the MPLS LABEL
REQUEST message to control the bandwidth allocation, queuing priorities, and
bandwidth modification on an existing CRLSP [AAFJLLS00].

Backward information exchange is used to release a
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or from a  VN to an ON, and includes for example the following parameter:

4.      NOTIFY-BNA:  The bandwidth-not-available parameter in the notify
(release) message sent from the VN to ON or DN to ON, and allows for
possible further alternate routing at the ON to search out alternate CRLSPs
for additional bandwidth.

A bandwidth-not-available parameter is already planned for the MPLS NOTIFY
message to allow the ON to search out additional bandwidth on additional
CRLSPs.

In order to achieve automatic update and synchronization of the topology
database, which is essential for routing table design, IP-based networks
already interpret HELLO protocol mechanisms to identify links in the
network. For topology database synchronization the OSPF LSA exchange is used
to automatically provision nodes, links, and reachable addresses in the
topology database. This information is exchanged between one node and
another node, and in the case of OSPF a flooding mechanism of LSA
information is used.

5.      HELLO: Provides for the identification of links between nodes in the
network.
6.      LSA: Provides for the automatic updating of nodes, links, and
reachable addresses in the topology database.

In summary, IP-based networks already incorporate standard signaling for
routing table management functions, which includes the ER, HELLO, and LSA
capabilities.  Additional requirements needed to support QoS resource
management include the DoS parameter and MODIFY parameter in the MPLS LABEL
REQUEST message, the crankback/bandwidth-not-available parameter in the MPLS
notify message, as proposed in [FIA00, AALJ99], and the support for QUERY,
STATUS, and RECOM routing table design information exchange, as required in
Section 4.5.  Call control with the H.323 [H.323] and session initiation
protocol [RFC2543] protocols needs to be coordinated with MPLS CRLSP
connection/bandwidth-allocation control.

4.3     Routing Table Management for ATM-Based Networks

PNNI is a standardized signaling and dynamic routing strategy for ATM
networks adopted by the ATM Forum [ATM960055].  PNNI provides
interoperability among different vendor equipment and scaling to very large
networks.  Scaling is provided by a hierarchical peer group structure that
allows the details of topology of a peer group to be flexibly hidden or
revealed at various levels within the hierarchical structure.  Peer group
leaders represent the nodes within a peer group for purposes of routing
protocol exchanges at the next higher level.  Border nodes handle
inter-level interactions at call setup.  PNNI routing involves two
components: a) a topology distribution protocol, and b) the path selection
and crankback procedures.  The topology distribution protocol floods
information within a peer group.  The peer group leader abstracts the
information from within the peer group and floods the abstracted topology
information to the next higher level in the hierarchy, including aggregated
reachable address information.  As the peer group leader learns information
at the next higher level, it floods it to the lower level in the hierarchy,
as appropriate.  In this fashion, all nodes learn of network-wide
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PNNI path selection is source-based in which the ON determines the
high-level path through the network.  The ON performs number translation,
screening, service processing, and all steps necessary to determine the
routing table for the connection/bandwidth-allocation request across the ATM
network. The node places the selected path in the designated transit list
(DTL) and passes the DTL to the next node in the SETUP message. The next
node does not need to perform number translation on the called party number
but just follows the path specified in the DTL.  When a
connection/bandwidth-allocation request is blocked due to network
congestion, a PNNI crankback/bandwidth-not-available is sent to the first
ATM node in the peer group.  The first ATM node may then use the PNNI
alternate routing after crankback/bandwidth-not-available capability to
select another path for the connection/bandwidth-allocation request.  If the
network is flat, that is, all nodes have the same peer group level, the ON
controls the edge-to-edge path.  If the network has more than one level of
hierarchy, as the call progresses from one peer group into another, the
border node at the new peer group selects a path through that peer group to
the next peer group downstream, as determined by the ON.  This occurs
recursively through the levels of hierarchy.  If at any point the call is
blocked, for example when the selected path bandwidth is not available, then
the call is cranked back to the border node or ON for that level of the
hierarchy and an alternate path is selected.  The path selection algorithm
is not stipulated in the PNNI specification, and each ON implementation can
make its own path selection decision unilaterally.  Since path selection is
done at an ON, each ON makes path selection decisions based on its local
topology database and specific algorithm.  This means that different path
selection algorithms from different vendors can interwork with each other.

In the routing example illustrated in Figure 3.1 now used to illustrate
PNNI, an ON N1 determines a list of shortest paths by using, for example,
Dijsktra's algorithm.  This path list could be determined based on
administrative weights of each link which are communicated to all nodes
within the peer group through the PTSE flooding mechanism.  These
administrative weights may be set, for example, to 1 + epsilon x distance,
where epsilon is a factor giving a relatively smaller weight to the distance
in comparison to the hop count.   The ON then selects a path from the list
based on any of the methods described in ANNEX 2, that is FR, TDR, SDR, and
EDR.  For example, in using the first choice path, the ON N1 sends a PNNI
setup message to VN N2, which in turn forwards the PNNI setup message to VN
N3, and finally to DN N4.  The VNs N2 and N3 and DN N4 are passed in the DTL
parameter contained in the PNNI setup message.  Each node in the path reads
the DTL information, and passes the PNNI setup message to the next node
listed in the DTL.

If the first path is blocked at any of the links in the path, or overflows
or is excessively delayed at any of the queues in the path, a
crankback/bandwidth-not-available message is returned to the ON which can
then attempt the next path.  If FR is used, then this path is the next path
in the shortest path list, for example path N1-N6-N7-N8-N4.  If TDR is used,
then the next path is the next path in the routing table for the current
time period.  If SDR is used, PNNI implements a distributed method of
flooding link status information, which is triggered either periodically
and/or by crossing load state threshold values.  As described in the
beginning of this Section, this flooding method of distributing link status
information can be resource intensive and indeed may not be any more
efficient than simpler path selection methods such as EDR.  If EDR is used,
then the next path is the last successful path, and if that path is

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unsuccessful another alternate path is searched out according to the EDR
path selection method.

Connection/bandwidth-allocation control information is used in
connection/bandwidth-allocation set up to seize bandwidth in links, to
release bandwidth in links, and to advance path choices in the routing
table.   Existing connection/bandwidth-allocation setup and release messages
[ATM960055] can be used with additional parameters to control SVP bandwidth
modification, DoS on a link, or SVP bandwidth-not-available to an ON for
further alternate routing.  Actual selection of a path is determined from
the routing table, and connection/bandwidth-allocation control information
is used to establish the path choice.  Forward information exchange is used
in connection/bandwidth-allocation set up, and includes for example the
following parameters:

1.      SETUP-DTL/ER: The designated-transit-list/explicit-route (DTL/ER)
parameter in PNNI specifies each VN and the DN in the path, and used by each
VN to determine the next node in the path.
2.      SETUP-DoS:  The DoS parameter used by each VN to compare the load
state on the link to the allowed DoS to determine if the SVC
connection/bandwidth-allocation request is admitted or blocked on that link.
3.      MODIFY REQUEST - DoS: The DoS parameter used by each VN to compare
the load state on the link to the allowed DoS to determine if the SVP
modification request is admitted or blocked on that link.

It is required that the DoS parameter be carried in the SVP MODIFY REQUEST
and SVC SETUP messages, to control the bandwidth allocation and queuing
priorities.

Backward information exchange is used to release a
connection/bandwidth-allocation request on a link such as from a DN to a VN
or from a VN to an ON, and includes for example the following parameter:

4.      RELEASE-CB:  The crankback/bandwidth-not-available parameter in the
release message is sent from the VN to ON or DN to ON, and allows for
possible further alternate routing at the ON.
5.      MODIFY REJECT-BNA: The bandwidth-not-available parameter in the
modify reject message is sent from the VN to ON or DN to ON, and allows for
possible further alternate routing at the ON to search out additional
bandwidth on alternate SVPs.

SVC crankback/bandwidth-not-available is already defined for PNNI-based
signaling.  We propose a bandwidth-not-available parameter in the SVP MODIFY
REJECT message to allow the ON to search out additional bandwidth on
additional SVPs.

In order to achieve automatic update and synchronization of the topology
database, which is essential for routing table design, ATM-based networks
already interpret HELLO protocol mechanisms to identify links in the
network. For topology database synchronization the PTSE exchange is used to
automatically provision nodes, links, and reachable addresses in the
topology database. This information is exchanged between one node and
another node, and in the case of PNNI a flooding mechanism of PTSE
information is used.

6.      HELLO: Provides for the identification of links between nodes in the
network.

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7.      PTSE: Provides for the automatic updating of nodes, links, and
reachable addresses in the topology database.

In summary, ATM-based networks already incorporate standard signaling and
messaging directly applicable to routing implementation, which includes the
DTL, crankback/bandwidth-not-available, HELLO, and PTSE capabilities.  ATM
protocol capabilities are being progressed [ATM000102, ATM000102, AM99] to
support QoS resource management, which include the DoS parameter in the SVC
SETUP and SVP MODIFY REQUEST messages, the bandwidth-not-available parameter
in the SVP MODIFY REJECT message, and the QUERY, STATUS, and RECOM routing
table design information exchange, as required in Section 4.5.

4.4     Routing Table Management for TDM-Based Networks

TDM-based voice/ISDN networks have evolved several dynamic routing methods,
which are widely deployed and include TDR, SDR, and EDR implementations
[A98].  TDR includes dynamic nonhierarchical routing (DNHR), deployed in the
US Government FTS-2000 network.  SDR includes dynamically controlled routing
(DCR), deployed in the Stentor Canada, Bell Canada, MCI, and Sprint
networks, and real-time network routing (RTNR), deployed in the AT&T
network.  EDR includes dynamic alternate routing (DAR), deployed in the
British Telecom network, and STT, deployed in the AT&T network.

TDM-based network call routing protocols are described for example in
[Q.1901] for BICC, and in [Q.2761] for the B-ISUP signaling protocol.  We
summarize here the information exchange required between network elements to
implement the TDM-based path selection methods, which include connection
control information required for connection set up, routing table design
information required for routing table generation, and topology update
information required for the automatic update and synchronization of
topology databases.

Routing table management information is used for purposes of applying the
routing table design rules for determining path choices in the routing
table.  This information is exchanged between one node and another node,
such as between the ON and DN, for example, or between a node and a network
element such as a BBP.  This information is used to generate the routing
table, and then the routing table is used to determine the path choices used
in the selection of a path.  The following messages can be considered for
this function:

1.      QUERY:  Provides for an ON to DN or ON to BBP link and/or node
status request.
2.      STATUS:  Provides ON/VN/DN to BBP or DN to ON link and/or node
status information.
3.      RECOM: Provides for an BBP to ON/VN/DN routing recommendation.

These information exchange messages are already deployed in non-standard
TDM-based implementations, and need to be extended to standard TDM-based
network environments.

In order to achieve automatic update and synchronization of the topology
database, which is essential for routing table design, TDM-based networks
need to interpret at the gateway nodes the HELLO protocol mechanisms of ATM-
and IP-based networks to identify links in the network, as discussed above
for ATM-based networks.  Also needed for topology database synchronization
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automatically provisions nodes, links, and reachable addresses in the
topology database.

Path-selection and QoS-resource management control information is used in
connection/bandwidth-allocation set up to seize bandwidth in links, to
release bandwidth in links, and for purposes of advancing path choices in
the routing table.   Existing connection/bandwidth-allocation setup and
release messages, as described in Recommendations Q.71 and Q.2761, can be
used with additional parameters to control path selection, DoS on a link, or
crankback/bandwidth-not-available to an ON for further alternate routing.
Actual selection of a path is determined from the routing table, and
connection/bandwidth-allocation control information is used to establish the
path choice.

Forward information exchange is used in connection/bandwidth-allocation set
up, and includes for example the following parameters:

4.      SETUP-DTL/ER:  The designated-transit-list/explicit-route (DTL/ER)
parameter specifies each VN and the DN in the path, and used by each VN to
determine the next node in the path.
5.      SETUP-DoS:  The DoS parameter is used by each VN to compare the load
state on the link to the allowed DoS to determine if the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request is admitted or blocked on that link.

In B-ISUP these parameters could be carried in the initial address message
(IAM).

Backward information exchange is used to release a
connection/bandwidth-allocation on a link such as from a DN to a VN or from
a  VN to an ON, and includes for example the following parameter:

6.      RELEASE-CB:  The crankback/bandwidth-not-available parameter in the
release message is sent from the VN to ON or DN to ON, and allows for
possible further alternate routing at the ON.

In B-ISUP signaling this parameter could be carried in the RELEASE message.

4.5     Signaling and Information Exchange Requirements

Table 4.1 summarizes the required signaling and information exchange methods
supported within each routing technology which are required to be supported
across network types.  Table 4.1 identifies

a)      the required information-exchange parameters, shown in non-bold
type, to support the routing methods, and
b)      the required standards, shown in bold type, to support the
information-exchange parameters.


Table 4.1
Required Signaling and Information-Exchange Parameters
to Support Routing Methods
(Required Standards in Bold)

These information-exchange parameters and methods are required for use
within each network type and for interworking across network types.
Therefore it is required that all information-exchange parameters identified

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in Table 4.1 be supported by the standards identified in the table, for each
of the five network technologies.  That is, it is required that standards be
developed for all information-exchange parameters not currently supported,
which are identified in Table 4.1 as references to Sections of this ANNEX.
This will ensure information-exchange compatibility when interworking
between the TDM-, ATM-, and IP-based network types, as denoted in the left
three network technology columns.  To support this information-exchange
interworking across network types, it is further required that the
information exchange at the interface be compatible across network types.
Standardizing the required information routing methods and
information-exchange parameters also supports the network technology cases
in the right two columns of Table 4.1, in which PSTNs incorporate ATM- or
IP-based technology

We first discuss the routing methods identified by the rows of Table 4.1,
and we then discuss the harmonization of PSTN/ATM-Based and PSTN/IP-Based
information exchange, as identified by columns 4 and 5 of Table 4.1.   In
Sections 4.5.1 to 4.5.4, we describe, respectively the call routing (number
translation to routing address), connection routing, QoS resource
management, and routing table management information-exchange parameters
required in Table 4.1.   In Section 4.5.5, we discuss the harmonization of
routing methods standards for the two technology cases in the right two
columns of Table 4.1 in which PSTNs incorporate ATM- or IP-based technology.

4.5.1   Call Routing (Number Translation to Routing Address)
Information-Exchange Parameters

As stated before, in the draft we assume the separation of call-control
signaling for call establishment from
connection/bandwidth-allocation-control signaling for bearer-channel
establishment.  Call-control signaling protocols are described for example
in [Q.2761] for the B-ISUP signaling protocol, [Q.1901] for BICC, [H.323]
for the H.323 protocol, [RFC2805, GR99] for the media gateway control
(MEGACO) protocol, and in [RFC2543] for SIP. Connection control protocols
include for example [Q.2761] for B-ISUP signaling, [ATM960055] for PNNI
signaling, [ATM960061] for UNI signaling, [ATM000148, DN99] for SVP
signaling, and [J00, ABGLSS00] for MPLS signaling.

As discussed in ANNEX 2, number/name translation should result in the E.164
AESA addresses, INRAs, and/or IP addresses.  It is required that provision
be made for carrying E.164-AESA addresses, INRAs, and IP addresses in the
connection-setup IE.  In addition, it is required that a call identification
code (CIC) be carried in the call-control and bearer-control
connection-setup IEs in order to correlate the call-control setup with the
bearer-control setup, [ATM000146].  Carrying these additional parameters in
the Signaling System 7 (SS7) ISDN User Part (ISUP) connection-setup IEs is
specified in the BICC protocol [Q.1901].

As shown in Table 4.1, it is required that provision be made for carrying
E.164-AESA addresses, INRAs, and IP addresses in the connection-setup IE.
In particular, it is required that E.164-AESA-address, INRA, and IP-address
elements be developed within IP-based and PSTN/IP-based networks. It is
required that number translation/routing methods supported by these
parameters be developed for IP-based and PSTN/IP-based networks.  When this
is the case, then E.164-AESA addresses, INRAs, and IP addresses will become
the standard addressing method for interworking across TDM-, ATM-, and
IP-based networks.

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4.5.2   Connection Routing Information-Exchange Parameters

Connection/bandwidth-allocation control information is used to seize
bandwidth on links in a path, to release bandwidth on links in a path, and
for purposes of advancing path choices in the routing table.   Existing
connection/bandwidth-allocation setup and connection-release IEs, as
described in [Q.2761, ATM960055, ATM960061, ATM000148, J00], can be used
with additional parameters to control SVC/SVP/CRLSP path routing, DoS
bandwidth-allocation thresholds, and crankback/bandwidth-not-available to
allow further alternate routing. Actual selection of a path is determined
from the routing table, and connection/bandwidth-allocation control
information is used to establish the path choice.

Source routing can be implemented through the use of
connection/bandwidth-allocation control signaling methods employing the DTL
or ER parameter in the connection-setup (IAM, SETUP, MODIFY REQUEST, and
LABEL REQUEST) IE and the crankback (CBK)/bandwidth-not-available (BNA)
parameter in the connection-release (RELEASE, MODIFY REJECT, and NOTIFY) IE.
The DTL or ER parameter specifies all VNs and DN in a path, as determined by
the ON, and the crankback/bandwidth-not-available parameter allows a VN to
return control of the connection request to the ON for further alternate
routing.

Forward information exchange is used in connection/bandwidth-allocation
setup, and includes for example the following parameters:

1.      Setup with designated-transit list/explicit-route (DTL/ER)
parameter: The DTL parameter in PNNI or the ER parameter in MPLS specifies
each VN and the DN in the path, and is used by each VN to determine the next
node in the path.

Backward information exchange is used to release a
connection/bandwidth-allocation request on a link such as from a DN to a VN
or from a VN to an ON, and the following parameters are required:

2.      Release with crankback/bandwidth-not-available (CBK/BNA) parameter:
The CBK/BNA parameter in the connection-release IE is sent from the VN to ON
or DN to ON, and allows for possible further alternate routing at the ON.

It is required that the CBK/BNA parameter be included (as appropriate) in
the RELEASE IE for TDM-based networks, the SVC RELEASE and SVP MODIFY REJECT
IE for ATM-based networks, and MPLS NOTIFY IE for IP-based networks.  This
parameter is used to allow the ON to search out additional bandwidth on
additional SVC/SVP/CRLSPs.

As shown in Table 4.1, it is required that the DTL/ER and CBK/BNA elements
be developed within TDM-based networks, which will be compatible with the
DTL element in ATM-based networks and the ER element in IP-based networks.
It is required [E.350, E.351] that path-selection methods be developed
supported by these parameters for TDM-based networks.  Furthermore it is
required that TDR and EDR path-selection methods be developed supported by
these parameters for ATM-based, IP-based, PSTN/ATM-based, and PSTN/IP-based
networks.  When this is the case, then the DTL/ER and CBK/BNA parameters
will become the standard path-selection method for interworking across TDM-,
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4.5.3   QoS Resource Management Information-Exchange Parameters

QoS resource management information is used to provide differentiated
service priority in seizing bandwidth on links in a path and also in
providing queuing resource priority.  These parameters are required:

3.      Setup with QoS parameters (QoS-PAR): The QoS-PAR include QoS
thresholds such as transfer delay, delay variation, and packet loss. The
QoS-PAR parameters are used by each VN to compare the link QoS performance
to the requested QoS threshold to determine if the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request is admitted or blocked on that link.
4.      Setup with traffic parameters (TRAF-PAR): The TRAF-PAR include
traffic parameters such as average bit rate, maximum bit rate, and minimum
bit rate. The TRAF-PAR parameters are used by each VN to compare the link
traffic characteristics to the requested TRAF-PAR thresholds to determine if
the connection/bandwidth-allocation request is admitted or blocked on that
link.
5.      Setup with depth-of-search (DoS) parameter: The DoS parameter is
used by each VN to compare the load state on the link to the allowed DoS to
determine if the connection/bandwidth-allocation request is admitted or
blocked on that link.
6.      Setup with modify (MOD) parameter: The MOD parameter is used by each
VN to compare the requested modified traffic parameters on an existing
SVP/CRLSP to determine if the modification request is admitted or blocked on
that link.
7.      Differentiated services (DIFFSERV) parameter: The DIFFSERV parameter
is used in ATM-based and IP-based networks to support priority queuing.  The
DIFFSERV parameter is used at the queues associated with each link to
designate the relative priority and management policy for each queue.

It is required that the QoS-PAR, TRAF-PAR, DTL/ER, DoS, MOD, and DIFFSERV
parameters be included (as appropriate) in the initial address message (IAM)
for TDM-based networks, the SVC/SVP SETUP IE and SVP MODIFY REQUEST IE for
ATM-based networks, and MPLS LABEL REQUEST IE for IP-based networks.  These
parameters are used to control the routing, bandwidth allocation, and
routing/queuing priorities.

As shown in Table 4.1, it is required that the QoS-PAR and TRAF-PAR elements
be developed within TDM-based networks to support bandwidth allocation and
protection, which will be compatible with the QoS-PAR and TRAF-PAR elements
in ATM-based and IP-based networks.  In addition, it is required that the
DoS element be developed within TDM-based networks, which will be compatible
with the DoS element in ATM-based and IP-based networks.  Finally, it is
required that the DIFFSERV element should be developed in ATM-based and
IP-based networks to support priority queuing. It is required that
QoS-resource-management methods be developed supported by these parameters
for TDM-based networks.  When this is the case, then the QoS-PAR, TRAF-PAR,
DoS, and DIFFSERV parameters will become the standard
QoS-resource-management methods for interworking across TDM-, ATM-, and
IP-based networks.

4.5.4   Routing Table Management Information-Exchange Parameters

Routing table management information is used for purposes of applying the
routing table design rules for determining path choices in the routing
table.  This information is exchanged between one node and another node,
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element such as a BBP.  This information is used to generate the routing
table, and then the routing table is used to determine the path choices used
in the selection of a path.

In order to achieve automatic update and synchronization of the topology
database, which is essential for routing table design, ATM- and IP-based
based networks already interpret HELLO protocol mechanisms to identify links
in the network. For topology database synchronization the PTSE exchange is
used in ATM-based networks and LSA is used in IP-based networks to
automatically provision nodes, links, and reachable addresses in the
topology database.  Hence these parameters are required for this function:

8.      HELLO parameter: Provides for the identification of links between
nodes in the network.
9.      Topology-state-element (TSE) parameter: Provides for the automatic
updating of nodes, links, and reachable addresses in the topology database.

These information exchange parameters are already deployed in ATM- and
IP-based network implementations, and are required to be extended to
TDM-based network environments.

The following parameters are required for the status query and routing
recommendation function:

10.     Routing-query-element (RQE) parameter: Provides for an ON to DN or
ON to BBP link and/or node status request.
11.     Routing-status-element (RSE) parameter: Provides for a node to BBP
or DN to ON link and/or node status information.
12.     Routing-recommendation-element (RRE) parameter: Provides for an BBP
to node routing recommendation.

These information exchange parameters are being standardized with
Recommendation [E.350, E.351], and are required to be extended to ATM- and
IP-based network environments.

As shown in Table 4.1, it is required that a TSE parameter be developed
within TDM-based PSTN networks. It is required that topology update routing
methods supported by these parameters be developed for PSTN/TDM-based
networks.  When this is the case, then the HELLO and TSE/PTSE/LSA parameters
will become the standard topology update method for interworking across
TDM-, ATM-, and IP-based networks.

As shown in Table 4.1, it is required that a RSE parameter be developed
within TDM-based networks, which will be compatible with the PTSE parameter
in ATM-based networks and the LSA parameter in IP-based networks. It is
required [E.350, E.351] that status update routing methods supported by
these parameters be developed for TDM-based networks.  When this is the
case, then the RSE/PTSE/LSA parameters will become the standard status
update method for interworking across TDM-, ATM-, and IP-based networks.

As shown in Table 4.1, it is required that a RQE parameter be developed
within ATM-based, IP-based, PSTN/ATM-based, and PSTN/IP-based networks. It
is required that query-for-status routing methods supported by these
parameters be developed for ATM-based, IP-based, PSTN/ATM-based, and
PSTN/IP-based networks.  When this is the case, then the RQE parameters will
become the standard query for status method for interworking across TDM-,
ATM-, and IP-based networks.

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As shown in Table 4.1, it is required that a RRE parameter be developed
within ATM-based, IP-based, PSTN/ATM-based, and PSTN/IP-based networks. It
is required that routing-recommendation methods be developed supported by
these parameters for ATM-based, IP-based, PSTN/ATM-based, and PSTN/IP-based
networks.  When this is the case, then the RRE parameters will become the
standard query for status method for interworking across TDM-, ATM-, and
IP-based networks.

4.5.5   Harmonization of Information-Exchange Standards

Harmonization of information-exchange standards is needed for the two
technology cases in the right two columns of Table 4.1, in which PSTNs
incorporate ATM- or IP-based technology.  For example, the harmonized
standards pertain to the case when PSTNs such as network B and network C in
Figure 1.1 incorporate IP- or ATM-based technology.  Assuming network B is a
PSTN incorporating IP-based technology, established routing methods and
compatible information-exchange are required to be applied.  Achieving this
will affect recommendations both with ITU-T and IETF that apply to the
impacted routing and information exchange functions.

Contributions to the IETF and ATM Forum are necessary to address

a)      needed number translation/routing functionality, which includes
support for international network routing address and IP address parameters,

b)      needed routing table management information-exchange functionality,
which includes query-for-status and routing-recommendation methods,
c)      needed path selection information-exchange functionality, which
includes time dependent routing and event dependent routing.

4.5.6   Open Routing Application Programming Interface (API)

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are being developed to allow
control of network elements through open interfaces available to individual
applications.  APIs allow applications to access and control network
functions including routing policy, as necessary, according to the specific
application functions. The API parameters under application control, such as
those specified for example in [PARLAY], are independent of the individual
protocols supported within the network, and therefore can provide a common
language and framework across various network technologies, such as TDM-,
ATM-, and IP-based technologies.

The signaling/information-exchange connectivity management parameters
specified in this Section which need to be controlled through an
applications interface include QoS-PAR, TRAF-PAR, DTL/ER, DoS, MOD,
DIFFSERV, E.164-AESA, INRA, CIC, and perhaps others.  The
signaling/information-exchange routing policy parameters specified in this
Section which need to be controlled through an applications interface
include TSE, RQE, RRE, and perhaps others.  These parameters are required to
be specified within the open API interface for routing functionality, and in
this way applications will be able to access and control routing
functionality within the network independent of the particular routing
protocol(s) used in the network.

4.6     Examples of Internetwork Routing


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A network consisting of various subnetworks using different routing
protocols is considered in this Section.  As illustrated in Figure 4.2,
consider a network with four subnetworks denoted as networks A, B, C, and D,
where each network uses a different routing protocol.  In this example,
network A is an ATM-based network which uses PNNI EDR path selection,
network B is a TDM-based network which uses centralized periodic SDR path
selection, network C is an IP-based network which uses MPLS EDR path
selection, and network D is a TDM-based network which uses TDR path
selection.  Internetwork E is defined by the shaded nodes in Figure 4.2 and
is a virtual network where the interworking between networks A, B, C, and D
is actually taking place.

Figure 4.2. Example of an Internetwork Routing Scenario.   BBPb denotes a
bandwidth broker  processor in network B for a centralized periodic SDR
method. The set of shaded nodes is internetwork E for routing of
connection/bandwidth-allocation requests between networks A, B, C, and D.

4.6.1   Internetwork E Uses a Mixed Path Selection Method

Internetwork E can use various path selection methods in delivering
connection/bandwidth-allocation requests between the subnetworks A, B, C,
and D.  For example, internetwork E can implement a mixed path selection
method in which each node in internetwork E uses the path selection method
used in its home subnetwork.  Consider a connection/bandwidth-allocation
request from node a1 in network A to node b4 in network B.  Node a1 first
paths the connection/bandwidth-allocation request to either node a3 or a4 in
network A and in doing so uses EDR path selection.  In that regard node a1
first tries to route the connection/bandwidth-allocation request on the
direct link a1-a4, and assuming that link a1-a4 bandwidth is unavailable
then selects the current successful path a1-a3-a4 and routes the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request to node a4 via node a3.  In so doing
node a1 and node a3 put the DTL/ER parameter (identifying ON a1, VN a3, and
DN a4) and QoS-PAR, TRAF-PAR, DoS, and DIFFSERV parameters in the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request connection-setup IE.

Node a4 now proceeds to route the connection/bandwidth-allocation request to
node b1 in subnetwork B using EDR path selection. In that regard node a4
first tries to route the connection/bandwidth-allocation request on the
direct link a4-b1, and assuming that link a4-b1 bandwidth is unavailable
then selects the current successful path a4-c2-b1 and routes the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request to node b1 via node c2.  In so doing
node a4 and node c2 put the DTL/ER parameter (identifying ON a4, VN c2, and
DN b1) and QoS-PAR, TRAF-PAR, DoS, and DIFFSERV parameters in the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request connection-setup IE.

If node c2 finds that link c2-b1 does not have sufficient available
bandwidth, it returns control of the connection/bandwidth-allocation request
to node a4 through use of a CBK/BNA parameter in the connection-release IE.
If now node a4 finds that link d4-b1 has sufficient idle bandwidth capacity
based on the RSE parameter in the status response IE from node b1, then node
a4 could next try path a4-d3-d4-b1 to node b1.  In that case node a4 routes
the connection/bandwidth-allocation request to node d3 on link a4-d3, and
node d3 is sent the DTL/ER parameter (identifying ON a4, VN d3, VN d4, and
DN b1) and the DoS parameter in the connection-setup IE.  In that case node
d3 tries to seize idle bandwidth on link d3-d4, and assuming that there is
sufficient idle bandwidth routes the connection/bandwidth-allocation request
to node d4 with the DTL/ER parameter (identifying ON a4, VN d3, VN d4, and

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DN b1) and the QoS-PAR, TRAF-PAR, DoS, and DIFFSERV parameters in the
connection-setup IE.  Node d4 then routes the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request on link d4-b1 to node b1, which has
already been determined to have sufficient idle bandwidth capacity.  If on
the other hand there is insufficient idle d4-b1 bandwidth available, then
node d3 returns control of the call to node a4 through use of a CRK/BNA
parameter in the connection-release IE.  At that point node a4 may try
another multilink path, such as a4-a3-b3-b1, using the same procedure as for
the a4-d3-d4-b1 path.

Node b1 now proceeds to route the connection/bandwidth-allocation request to
node b4 in network B using centralized periodic SDR path selection. In that
regard node b1 first tries to route the connection/bandwidth-allocation
request on the direct link b1-b4, and assuming that link b1-b4 bandwidth is
unavailable then selects a two-link path b1-b2-b4 which is the currently
recommended alternate path identified in the RRE parameter from the BBPb for
network B.  BBPb bases its alternate routing recommendations on periodic
(say every 10 seconds) link and traffic status information in the RSE
parameters received from each node in network B.  Based on the status
information, BBPb then selects the two-link path b1-b2-b4 and sends this
alternate path recommendation in the RRE parameter to node b1 on a periodic
basis (say every 10 seconds).  Node b1 then routes the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request to node b4 via node b2.  In so doing
node b1 and node b2 put the DTL/ER parameter (identifying ON b1, VN b2, and
DN b4) and QoS-PAR, TRAF-PAR, DoS, and DIFFSERV parameters in the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request connection-setup IE.

A connection/bandwidth-allocation request from node b4 in network B to node
a1 in network A would mostly be the same as the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request from a1 to b4, except with all the
above steps in reverse order.  The difference would be in routing the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request from node b1 in network B to node a4
in network A.  In this case, based on the mixed path selection assumption in
virtual network E, the b1 to a4 connection/bandwidth-allocation request
would use centralized periodic SDR path selection, since node b1 is in
network B, which uses centralized periodic SDR.  In that regard node b1
first tries to route the connection/bandwidth-allocation request on the
direct link b1-a4, and assuming that link b1-a4 bandwidth is unavailable
then selects a two-link path b1-c2-a4 which is the currently recommended
alternate path identified in the RRE parameter from the BBPb for virtual
network E.  BBPb bases its alternate routing recommendations on periodic
(say every 10 seconds) link and traffic status information in the RSE
parameters received from each node in virtual subnetwork E.  Based on the
status information, BBPb then selects the two-link path b1-c2-a4 and sends
this alternate path recommendation in the RRE parameter to node b1 on a
periodic basis (say every 10 seconds).  Node b1 then routes the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request to node a4 via VN c2.  In so doing
node b1 and node c2 put the DTL/ER parameter (identifying ON b1, VN c2, and
DN a4) and QoS-PAR, TRAF-PAR, DoS, and DIFFSERV parameters in the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request connection-setup IE.

If node c2 finds that link c2-a4 does not have sufficient available
bandwidth, it returns control of the connection/bandwidth-allocation request
to node b1 through use of a CRK/BNA parameter in the connection-release IE.
If now node b1 finds that path b1-d4-d3-a4 has sufficient idle bandwidth
capacity based on the RSE parameters in the status IEs to BBPb, then node b1
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connection/bandwidth-allocation request to node d4 on link b1-d4, and node
d4 is sent the DTL/ER parameter (identifying ON b1, VN d4, VN d3, and DN a4)
and the QoS-PAR, TRAF-PAR, DoS, and DIFFSERV parameters in the
connection-setup IE.  In that case node d4 tries to seize idle bandwidth on
link d4-d3, and assuming that there is sufficient idle bandwidth routes the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request to node d3 with the DTL/ER parameter
(identifying ON b1, VN d4, VN d3, and DN a4) and the QoS-PAR, TRAF-PAR, DoS,
and DIFFSERV parameters in the connection-setup IE.  Node d3 then routes the
connection/bandwidth-allocation request on link d3-a4 to node a4, which is
expected based on status information in the RSE parameters to have
sufficient idle bandwidth capacity.  If on the other hand there is
insufficient idle d3-a4 bandwidth available, then node d3 returns control of
the call to node b1 through use of a CRK/BNA parameter in the
connection-release IE.  At that point node b1 may try another multilink
path, such as b1-b3-a3-a4, using the same procedure as for the b1-d4-d3-a4
path.

Allocation of end-to-end performance parameters across networks is addressed
in Recommendation I.356, Section 9.  An example is the allocation of the
maximum transfer delay to individual network components of an end-to-end
connection, such as national network portions, international portions, etc.

4.6.2   Internetwork E Uses a Single Path Selection Method

Internetwork E may also use a single path selection method in delivering
connection/bandwidth-allocation requests between the networks A, B, C, and
D.  For example, internetwork E can implement a path selection method in
which each node in internetwork E uses EDR.  In this case the example
connection/bandwidth-allocation request from node a1 in network A to node b4
in network B would be the same as described above.  A
connection/bandwidth-allocation request from node b4 in network B to node a1
in network A would be the same as the connection/bandwidth-allocation
request from a1 to b4, except with all the above steps in reverse order.  In
this case the routing of the connection/bandwidth-allocation request from
node b1 in network B to node a4 in network A would also use EDR in a similar
manner to the a1 to b4 connection/bandwidth-allocation request described
above.

4.7     Modeling of Traffic Engineering Methods

In this Section, we again use the full-scale national network model
developed in ANNEX 2 to study various TE scenarios and tradeoffs.  The
135-node national model is illustrated in Figure 2.9, the multiservice
traffic demand model is summarized in Table 2.1, and the cost model is
summarized in Table 2.2.

As we have seen, routing table management entails many different
alternatives and tradeoffs, such as:

*       centralized  routing table control versus distributed control
*       pre-planned routing table control versus on-line routing table
control
*       per-flow traffic management versus per-virtual-network traffic
management
*       sparse logical topology versus meshed logical topology
*       FR versus TDR versus SDR versus EDR path selection
*       multilink path selection versus two-link path selection

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*       path selection using local status information versus global status
information
*       global status dissemination alternatives including status flooding,
distributed query for status, and centralized status in a bandwidth-broker
processor

Here we evaluate the tradeoffs in terms of the number of information
elements and parameters exchanged, by type, under various TE scenarios.
This approach gives some indication of the processor and information
exchange load required to support routing table management under various
alternatives.  In particular, we examine the following cases:

*       2-link DC-SDR
*       2-link STT-EDR
*       multilink CP-SDR
*       multilink DP-SDR
*       multilink DC-SDR
*       multilink STT-EDR

Tables 4.2 and 4.3 summarize the comparative results for these cases, for
the case of SDR path selection and STT path selection, respectively.  The
135-node multiservice model was used for a simulation under a 30% general
network overload in the network busy hour.



Table 4.2
Signaling and Information-Element Parameters Exchanged for
Various TE Methods with SDR Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation
Number of IE Parameters Exchanged under 30% General Overload in Network Busy
Hour
 (135-Node Multiservice Network Model)

Table 4.3
Signaling and Information-Element Parameters Exchanged for
Various TE Methods with STT-EDR Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
Number of IE Parameters Exchanged under 30% General Overload in Network Busy
Hour
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model)

Tables 4.4 and 4.5 summarize the comparative results for the case of SDR
path selection and STT path selection, respectively, in which the 135-node
multiservice model was used for a simulation under a 6-times focused
overload on the OKBK node in the network busy hour.

Table 4.4
Signaling and Information-Element Parameters Exchanged for
Various TE Methods with SDR Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation
Number of IE Parameters Exchanged under 6X Focused Overload on OKBK in
Network Busy Hour
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model)

Table 4.5
Signaling and Information-Element Parameters Exchanged for
Various TE Methods with STT-EDR Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
Number of IE Parameters Exchanged under 6X Focused Overload on OKBK in
Network Busy Hour
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model)

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Tables 4.6 and 4.7 summarize the comparative results for the case of SDR
path selection and STT path selection, respectively, in which the 135-node
multiservice model was used for a simulation under a facility failure on the
CHCG-NYCM link in the network busy hour.

Table 4.6
Signaling and Information-Element Parameters Exchanged for
Various TE Methods with SDR Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation
Number of IE Parameters Exchanged under Failure of CHCG-NYCM Link in Network
Busy Hour
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model)

Table 4.7
Signaling and Information-Element Parameters Exchanged for
Various TE Methods with STT-EDR Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
Number of IE Parameters Exchanged under Failure of CHCG-NYCM Link in Network
Busy Hour
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model)

Tables 4.8 - 4.10 summarize the comparative results for the case of STT path
selection, in the hierarchical network model shown in Figure 3.7, for the
30% general overload, the 6-times focused overload, and the link failure
scenarios, respectively.  Both the per-flow bandwidth allocation and
per-virtual network bandwidth allocation cases are given in these tables.

Table 4.8
Signaling and Information-Element Parameters Exchanged for
Various TE Methods with STT-EDR Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
Number of IE Parameters Exchanged under 30% General Overload in Network Busy
Hour
(135-Edge-Node & 21-Backbone-Node Hierarchical Multiservice Network Model)

Table 4.9
Signaling and Information-Element Parameters Exchanged for
Various TE Methods with STT-EDR Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
Number of IE Parameters Exchanged under 6X Focused Overload on OKBK in
Network Busy Hour;
(135-Edge-Node & 21-Backbone-Node Hierarchical Multiservice Network Model)

Table 4.10
Signaling and Information-Element Parameters Exchanged for
Various TE Methods with STT-EDR Per-Virtual-Network Bandwidth Allocation
Number of IE Parameters Exchanged under Failure of CHCG-NYCM Link in Network
Busy Hour;
(135-Edge-Node & 21-Backbone-Node Hierarchical Multiservice Network Model)

Tables 4.2 - 4.10 illustrate the potential benefits of EDR methods in
reducing the routing table management overhead.  In ANNEX 3 we discussed EDR
methods applied to QoS resource management, in which he connection
bandwidth-allocation admission control for each link in the path is
performed based on the local status of the link. That is, the ON selects any
path for which the first link is allowed according to QoS resource
management criteria.  Each VN then checks the local link status of the links
specified in the ER parameter against the DoS parameter.  If a subsequent
link is not allowed, then a release with crankback/bandwidth-not-available

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is used to return to the ON which may then select an alternate path.  This
use of this EDR path selection method, then, which entails the use of the
release with crankback/bandwidth-not-available mechanism to search for an
available path, is an alternative to the SDR path selection alternatives,
which may entail flooding of frequently changing link state parameters such
as available-cell-rate.

A "least-loaded routing" strategy based on available-bit-rate on each link
in a path, is used in the SDR dynamic routing methods illustrated in the
above tables, and is a well-known, successful way to implement dynamic
routing.  Such SDR  methods have been used in several large-scale network
applications in which efficient methods are used to disseminate the
available-link-bandwidth status information, such as the query for status
method using the RQE and RRE parameters.  However, there is a high overhead
cost to obtain the available-link-bandwidth information when using flooding
techniques, such as those which use the TSE parameter for link-state
flooding.  This is clearly evident in Tables 4.2 - 4.10.  As a possible way
around this, the EDR routing methods illustrated above do not require the
dynamic flooding of available-bit-rate information. When EDR path selection
with crankback is used in lieu of SDR path selection with link-state
flooding, the reduction in the frequency of such link-state parameter
flooding allows for larger peer group sizes.  This is because link-state
flooding can consume substantial processor and link resources, in terms of
message processing by the processors and link bandwidth consumed on the
links.  Crankback/bandwidth-not-available is then an alternative to the use
of link-state-flooding algorithm for the ON to be able to determine which
subsequent links in the path will be allowed.

4.8     Conclusions/Recommendations

The conclusions/recommendations reached in this ANNEX are as follows:

*       Because of the much lower routing table management overhead
requirements, per-VNET bandwidth allocation is preferred to per-flow
allocation. Per-VNET bandwidth allocation is essentially equivalent to
per-flow bandwidth allocation in network performance and efficiency, as
discussed in ANNEX 3.

*       Modeling results show EDR TE methods can lead to a large reduction
in ALB flooding overhead without loss of network throughput performance.
While SDR TE models typically use ALB flooding for TE path selection, EDR TE
methods do not require ALB flooding.  Rather, EDR TE methods typically
search out capacity by learning models, as in the STT method.  ALB flooding
can be very resource intensive, since it requires link bandwidth to carry
LSAs, processor capacity to process LSAs, and the overhead can limit
area/autonomous system (AS) size.

*       Because of lower routing table management overhead requirements,
larger administrative areas can be achieved through use of EDR-based TE
methods as compared to SDR-based TE methods. This can help achieve
single-area flat topologies which, as discussed in ANNEX 3, exhibit better
network performance and, as discussed in ANNEX 6, greater design
efficiencies in comparison with multi-area hierarchical topologies.

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ANNEX 5
Dynamic Transport Routing Methods

Traffic Engineering & QoS Methods for IP-, ATM-, & TDM-Based Multiservice
Networks


5.1     Introduction

This ANNEX describes and analyzes transport network architectures in light
of evolving technology for integrated broadband networks. Dynamic transport
routing offers advantages of simplicity of design and robustness to load
variations and network failures.  Dynamic transport routing can combine with
dynamic traffic routing to shift transport bandwidth among node pairs and
services through use of flexible transport switching technology.  Dynamic
transport routing can provide automatic link provisioning, diverse link
routing, and rapid link restoration for improved transport capacity
utilization and performance under stress.

Cross-connect devices, such as optical cross-connects (OXCs), are able to
node transport channels, for example OC48 channels, onto different
higher-capacity transport links such as an individual WDM channel on a
fiberoptic cable.  Transport paths can be rearranged at high speed using
OXCs, typically within tens of milliseconds switching times.  These OXCs can
reconfigure logical transport capacity on demand, such as for peak day
traffic, weekly redesign of link capacity, or emergency restoration of
capacity under node or transport failure.  Re-arrangement of logical link
capacity involves reallocating both transport bandwidth and node
terminations to different links.  OXC technology is amenable to centralized
traffic management.

There is recent work in extending MPLS control capabilities to the setup of
layer 2 logical links through OXCs, this effort dubbed multiprotocol lambda
switching, after the switching of wavelengths in dense wavelength division
multiplexer (DWDM) technology [ARDC99].

5.2     Dynamic Transport Routing Principles

An important element of network architecture is the relationship between the
transport network and the traffic network. An illustration of a transport
network is shown in Figure 5.1, and Figure 5.2 illustrates the mapping of
layer-2 logical links in the traffic network onto the layer-1 physical
transport network of Figure 5.1.  Some logical links overlay two or more
fiber-backbone links. For example, in Figure 5.1, logical link AD traverses
fiber-backbone links AB, BC, and CD.

Figure 5.1  Transport Networo Model

Figure 5.2 further illustrates the difference between the physical transport
network (layer 1) and the logical transport network (layer 2).  Logical
transport links are individual logical connections between network nodes,
which make up the logical link connections and are routed on the physical
transport network. Logical links can be provisioned at given rates, such as
T1, OC3, OC12, OC48, OC192, etc., and is dependent on the level of traffic
demand between nodes.

Figure 5.2  Logical (Layer 2) & Physical (Layer 1) Transport Networks

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Figure 5.2 indicates that a direct logical transport link is obtained by
cross-connecting through a transport switching location. Thus, the traffic
network is a logical network overlaid on a sparse physical one.  A
cross-connect device is traversed at each network node on a given logical
transport link path, as illustrated in Figure 5.2. This is particularly
promising when such a device has low cost.

It is clear from Figures 5.1 and 5.2 that in a highly interconnected traffic
network, or logical transport network, many node pairs may have a "direct"
logical link connection where none exists in the physical transport network.
In this case a direct logical transport link is obtained by cross-connecting
through a transport switching location, such as an OXC. This is distinct
from the traffic routing situation, in which a bearer connection is actually
switched at an intermediate location.  This distinction between
cross-connecting and switching is a bit subtle, but it is fundamental to
traffic routing of calls and transport routing of logical links. Referring
to Figure 5.2, we illustrate one of the logical inconsistencies we encounter
when we design the traffic network to be essentially separate from the
transport network. On the alternative traffic path from node B to node D
through A, the physical path is, in fact, up and back from B to A (a
phenomenon known as "backhauling") and then across from B to D. The sharing
of capacity by various traffic loads in this way actually increases the
efficiency of the network because the backhauled capacity to and from B and
A is only used when no direct A-to-B or A-to-D traffic wants to use it. It
is conceivable that under certain conditions, capacity could be put to more
efficient use, and this is studied in this ANNEX.

Hence a logical transport link connection is obtained by cross-connecting
through transport switching devices, such as OXCs, and this is distinct from
per-flow routing, which switches a call on the logical links at each node in
the call path. In this way, the logical transport network is overlaid on a
sparser physical transport network.  In ANNEX 2 we discussed a wide variety
of dynamic traffic routing methods. Dynamic transport routing methods
incorporate dynamic path selection which seeks out and uses idle network
capacity by using frequent, perhaps call-by-call, traffic and transport
routing table update decisions.  The trend in both traffic and transport
routing architecture is toward greater flexibility in resource allocation,
which includes transport and switching resource allocation. A fixed
transport routing architecture may have dynamic traffic routing but fixed
transport routing of logical link capacity. In a dynamic transport routing
architecture, however, the logical transport link capacities can be rapidly
rearranged ---that is, they are not fixed.

With dynamic transport routing, the logical transport bandwidth is shifted
rapidly at layer 2 among node pairs and services through the use of dynamic
cross-connect devices. In this case, the layer-1 physical fiber-link
bandwidth is allocated among the layer-2 logical links.  Bandwidth
allocation at layer 3 also creates the equivalent of direct links, and we
refer to these links as traffic trunks, which in turn comprise virtual
networks (VNETs) as described in ANNEX 3.  Traffic trunks can be
implemented, for example, by using MPLS label switched paths (LSPs).
Bandwidth is allocated to traffic trunks in accordance with traffic demands,
and normally not all logical transport link bandwidth is assigned; thus,
there is a pool of unassigned bandwidth. In cases of traffic overload for a
given node pair, the node first sets up calls on the traffic trunk that
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on the available pool of bandwidth. If there is available bandwidth, then
the bandwidth is allocated to the traffic trunk and used to set up the call.
If bandwidth is not available, then the layer-2 logical transport link
bandwidth might be dynamically increased by the bandwidth broker, and then
allocated to the traffic trunk and finally the call.  In a similar manner,
in the event that bandwidth is underutilized in a traffic trunk, excess
bandwidth is released to the available pool of bandwidth and then becomes
available for assignment to other node pairs. If logical transport link
bandwidth is sufficiently underutilized, the bandwidth might be returned to
the available pool of layer-1 fiber-link bandwidth.  The bandwidth broker
reassigns network resources on a dynamic basis, through analysis of traffic
data collected from the individual nodes.

In the dynamic transport architecture, we allow logical transport link
between the various nodes to be rearranged rapidly, such as by hour of the
day, or perhaps in real time. Dynamic transport routing capability enables
rearrangement of the logical link capacities on demand. This capability
appears most desirable for use in relatively slow rearrangement of capacity,
such as for busy-hour traffic, weekend traffic, peak-day traffic, weekly
redesign of logical link capacities, or for emergency restoration of
capacity under node or transport failure. At various times the demands for
node and transport capacity by the various node pairs and services that ride
on the same optical fibers will differ. In this network, if a given demand
for logical link capacity between a certain node pair decreases and a second
goes up, we allow the logical link capacity to be reassigned to the second
node pair. The ability to rearrange logical link capacity dynamically and
automatically results in cost savings. Large segments of bandwidth can be
provided on fiber routes, and then the transport capacity can be allocated
at will with the rearrangement mechanism. This ability for simplified
capacity management is discussed further in ANNEX 6.

Figure 5.3 illustrates the concept of dynamic traffic (layer 3) and
transport routing (layer 2) from a generalized switching node point of view.

Figure 5.3  Dynamic Transport (Layer 2) & Dynamic Connection (Layer 3)
            Routing

Figure 5.3 illustrates the relationship of the call-level and
transport-level dynamic routing methods used in the dynamic transport
routing network.  Dynamic connection routing, such as discussed in ANNEX 2,
is used to route calls comprising the underlying traffic demand. Traffic
trunk capacity allocations are made for each VNET on the transport link
capacity. For each call the originating node analyzes the called number and
determines the terminating node, class-of-service, and virtual network. The
originating node tries to set up the call on the traffic trunk to the
terminating node and, if unavailable, dynamic routing is used at to
rearrange the traffic trunk capacity as required to match the traffic
demands and to achieve inter-node diversity, access diversity, and traffic
trunk restoration following node, OXC, or fiber transport failures. The
traffic trunk capacities are allocated by the traffic router to the logical
transport link bandwidth, and the logical transport link bandwidth allocated
by the bandwidth broker to the fiber-link bandwidth, such that the bandwidth
is efficiently used according to the level of traffic demand between the
nodes.

At the traffic demand level in the transmission hierarchy, flow requests are
switched using dynamic traffic routing on the logical transport link network

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by node routing logic. At the OC3 and higher demand levels in the
transmission hierarchy, logical transport link demands are switched using
OXC systems, which allow dynamic transport routing to route transport
demands in accordance with traffic levels.  Real-time logical transport link
and real-time response to traffic congestion can be provided by OXC dynamic
transport routing to improve network performance.

As illustrated in Figure 5.4, the dynamic transport routing network concept
includes backbone routers (BRs), access routers (ARs), and OXCs.  Access
routers could route traffic from local offices, access tandems, customer
premises equipment, and overseas international switching centers. Here a
logical transport link transmission channel could consist, for example, of
OC3-, OC12-, OC48-, or OCx-level bandwidth allocation.  An OXC can
cross-connect (or "switch") a logical transport link transmission channel
within one terminating fiber wavelength channel in a dense wavelength
division multiplex (DWDM) system to a like-channel within another fiber DWDM
system. In the example illustrated, access routers connect to the OXC by
means of transport links such as link AX1, and BRs connect to OXCs by means
of transport links such as BX1. A number of backbone fiber/DWDM transport
links interconnect the OXC network elements, such as links XX1 and XX2.
Backbone logical transport links are terminated at each end by OXCs and are
routed over fiber/DWDM spans on the physical transport network on the
shortest physical paths. Inter-BR logical transport links are formed by
cross-connecting the bandwidth channels through OXCs between a pair of BRs.

Figure 5.4  Dynamic Transport Routing Network

For example, the backbone logical transport link B2 from BR1 to BR3 is
formed by connecting between BR1 and BR3 through fiber/DWDM links BX1, XX1,
XX2, and BX3 by making appropriate cross-connects through OXC1, OXC2, and
OXC3. Logical transport links have variable bandwidth capacity controlled by
the bandwidth broker implementing the dynamic transport routing network.
Access logical transport links are formed by cross-connecting between ARs
and BRs---for example, access router AR1 connected on fiber/DWDM links AX1
and BX1 through OXC1 to BR1 or, alternatively, access router AR1 connected
on fiber/DWDM links AX1, XX1, and BX2 cross-connected through OXC1 and OXC2
to BR2. For additional network reliability, backbone routers and access
routers may be dual-homed to two OXCs, possibly in different building
locations.

5.3     Dynamic Transport Routing Examples

There are significant network design opportunities with dynamic transport
routing, and in this Section we give examples of dynamic transport routing
over different time scales.  These examples illustrate the network
efficiency and performance improvements possible with seasonal, weekly,
daily, and real-time transport rearrangement.

An illustration of dynamic transport routing for varying seasonal traffic
demands is given in Figure 5.5. As seasonal demands shift, the dynamic
transport network is better able to match demands to routed transport
capacity, thus gaining efficiencies in transport requirements.  Figure 5.5
illustrates how dynamic transport routing achieves network capacity
reductions, and shows how transport demand is routed according to varying
seasonal requirements. As seasonal demands shift, the dynamic transport
network is better able to match demands to routed transport capacity, thus
gaining efficiencies in transport requirements. The figure illustrates the

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variation of winter and summer capacity demands. With fixed transport
routing, the maximum termination capacity and transport capacity are
provided across the seasonal variations, because in a manual environment
without dynamic transport rearrangement it is not possible to disconnect and
reconnect capacity on such short cycle times. When transport rearrangement
is automated with dynamic transport routing, however, the termination and
transport design can be changed on a weekly, daily, or, with high-speed
packet switching, real-time basis to exactly match the termination and
transport design with the actual network demands. Notice that in the fixed
transport network there is unused termination and transport capacity that
cannot be used by any demands; sometimes this is called "trapped capacity,"
because it is available but cannot be accessed by any actual demand.  The
dynamic transport network, in contrast, follows the capacity demand with
flexible transport routing, and together with transport network design it
reduces the trapped capacity.

Figure 5.5  Dynamic Transport Routing vs. Fixed Transport Routing

Therefore, the variation of demands leads to capacity-sharing efficiencies,
which in the example of Figure 5.5 reduce termination capacity requirements
by 50 node terminations, or approximately 10 percent compared with the fixed
transport network, and by 50 transport capacity requirements, or
approximately 14 percent.  Therefore, with dynamic transport routing
capacity utilization can be made more efficient in comparison with fixed
transport routing, because with dynamic transport network design the link
sizes can be matched to the network load.

With dynamic traffic routing and dynamic transport routing design models,
reserve capacity can be reduced in comparison with fixed transport routing.
In-place capacity that exceeds the capacity required to exactly meet the
design loads with the objective performance is called reserve capacity.
Reserve capacity comes about because load uncertainties, such as forecast
errors, tend to cause capacity buildup in excess of the network design that
exactly matches the forecast loads.  Reluctance to disconnect and rearrange
traffic trunk and transport capacity contributes to this reserve capacity
buildup. Typical ranges for reserve capacity are from 15 to 25 percent or
more of network cost. Models show that dynamic traffic routing compared with
fixed traffic routing provides a potential 5 percent reduction in reserve
capacity while retaining a low level of short-term capacity design [A98].

With dynamic transport network design the link sizes can be matched to the
network load. With dynamic transport routing, the link capacity disconnect
policy becomes, in effect, one in which link capacity is always disconnected
when not needed for the current traffic loads. Models given in [FHH79]
predict reserve capacity reductions of 10~percent or more under this policy,
and the results presented in Section 5.4 based on weekly dynamic transport
design substantiate this conclusion.

Weekly design and rearrangement of logical transport link capacity can
approach zero reserve capacity designs.  Figures 5.6 and 5.7 illustrate the
changing of routed transport capacity on a weekly basis between node pairs
A--B, C--D, and B--E, as demands between these node pairs change on a weekly
basis.

Figure 5.6  Dynamic Transport Routing Network Weekly Arrangement
            (Week 1 Load Pattern)


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Figure 5.7  Dynamic Transport Routing Network Weekly Arrangement
            (Week 2 Load Pattern)

These transport routing and capacity changes are made automatically in the
dynamic transport network, in which diverse transport routing of logical
transport links A--B and C--D is maintained by the dynamic transport routing
network.  Logical transport link diversity achieves additional network
reliability.

Daily design and rearrangement of transport link capacity can achieve
performance improvements for similar reasons, due to noncoincidence of
transport capacity demands that can change daily. An example is given in
Figures 5.8 and 5.9 for traffic noncoincidence experienced on peak days such
as Christmas Day. In Figure 5.8, we illustrate the normal business-day
routing of access demands and inter-BR demands. On Christmas Day, however,
there are many busy nodes and many idle nodes. For example, node BR2 may be
relatively idle on Christmas Day (for example, if it were a downtown
business node), while BR1 may be very busy. Therefore, on Christmas Day, BR2
demands to everywhere else in the network are reduced, and through dynamic
transport routing these transport capacity reductions can be made
automatically. Similarly, BR1 demands are increased on Christmas Day. Access
demands such as those from AR1 can be redirected to freed-up termination
capacity on BR2, as illustrated in Figure 5.9, which also frees up
termination capacity on BR1 to be used for inter-BR demand increases. By
this kind of access demand and inter-BR demand rearrangement, based on
noncoincident traffic shifts, more traffic to and from BR1 can be completed
because inter-BR logical transport link capacity is increased, now using
freed-up transport capacity from the reduction in the transport capacity
needed by BR2. On a peak day such as Christmas Day, the busy nodes are often
limited by inter-BR logical transport link capacity; this rearrangement
reduces or eliminates this bottleneck, as is illustrated in the Christmas
Day dynamic transport network design example in Section 5.4.

The balancing of access and inter-BR capacity throughout the network can
lead to robustness to unexpected load surges. This load-balancing design is
illustrated in Section 5.4 with an example based on a Hurricane-caused
focused overload in the northeastern United States. Capacity addition
rearrangements based on instantaneous reaction to unforeseen events such as
earthquakes could be made in the dynamic transport network.

Figure 5.8  Dynamic Transport Routing Peak Day Design

Figure 5.9  Dynamic Transport Routing Peak Day Design

Dynamic transport routing can provide dynamic restoration of failed
capacity, such as that due to fiber cuts, onto spare or backup transport
capacity. Dynamic transport routing provides a self-healing network
capability to ensure a networkwide path selection and immediate adaptation
to failure.

Figure 5.10  Fiber Cut Example with Dynamic Traffic Routing & Dynamic
             Transport Routing

FASTAR [CED91], for example, implements central automatic control of
transport switching devices to quickly restore service following a transport
failure. As illustrated in Figure 5.10, a fiber cut can disrupt large
traffic trunk capacities, and dynamic transport restoration can quickly
restore transport capacity.  Dynamic transport routing provides a
self-healing network capability to ensure a networkwide path selection and
immediate adaptation to failure. As illustrated in Figure 5.10, a fiber cut
near the Nashville node severed 8.576 Gbps of traffic trunk capacity of
switched-network traffic (there was also private-line traffic), and after
dynamic transport restoration a total of 3.84 Gbps of traffic trunk capacity
was still out of service in the switched network.  In the example dynamic
transport restoration is implemented by centralized automatic control of
transport cross-connect devices to quickly restore service following a
transport failure, such as caused by a cable cut. Over the duration of this
event, more than 12,000 calls were blocked in the switched network, almost
all of them originating or terminating at the Nashville node, and it is
noteworthy that the blocking in the network returned to zero after the 4.736
Gbps of traffic trunk capacity was restored in the first 11 minutes, even
though there was still 3.84 Gbps of traffic trunk capacity still out of
service.

Dynamic traffic routing was able to find paths on which to complete traffic
even though there was far less logical transport link capacity than normal
even after the dynamic transport restoration. Hence dynamic traffic routing
in combination with dynamic transport restoration provides a self-healing
network capability, and even though the cable was repaired two hours after
the cable cut, degradation of service was minimal.  In this example, dynamic
traffic routing also provided priority routing for selected customers and
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in preference to other calls, and blocking of the priority services is
essentially zero throughout the whole event.

Over the duration of an event, calls are blocked until sufficient capacity
is restored for the network to return to zero blocking.  That is, both
dynamic transport routing and dynamic traffic routing are able to find
available paths on which to restore the failed traffic. Hence, this example
clearly illustrates how real-time dynamic traffic routing in combination
with real-time dynamic transport routing can provide a self-healing network
capability, and even if the cable is repaired two hours after the cut,
degradation of service is minimal. This improved network performance
provides additional service revenues as formerly blocked calls are
completed, and it improves service quality to the customer.

These examples illustrate that implementation of dynamic transport routing
provides better network performance at reduced cost. These benefits are
similar to those achieved by dynamic traffic routing, and, as shown, the
combination of dynamic traffic and transport routing provides synergistic
reinforcement to achieve these network improvements.

The implementation of a dynamic transport routing network allows significant
reductions in capital costs and network management and design expense with
rearrangeable transport capacity design methods. Automated logical transport
link provisioning and rearrangement lead to annual operations expense
savings.  Other network management and design impacts, leading to additional
reduction in operations expense, are to simplify logical transport link
provisioning systems; automate preservice logical-transport-link testing and
simplify maintenance systems; integrate logical-transport-link capacity
forecasting, administration, and bandwidth allocation into capacity planning
and delivery; simplify node and transport planning; and automate inventory
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5.4      Modeling of Traffic Engineering Methods

In this Section we give modeling results for dynamic transport routing
capacity design, performance under network failure, and performance under
various network overload scenarios.

5.4.1   Dynamic Transport Routing Capacity Design

Design for traffic loads with week-to-week traffic variation. Dynamic
transport routing network design allows more efficient use of node capacity
and transport capacity and can lead to a reduction of network reserve trunk
capacity by about 10~percent, while improving network performance. Table 5.1
illustrates a comparative forecast of a national intercity network's
normalized logical-transport-link capacity requirements for the base case
without dynamic transport routing and the network requirements with dynamic
transport routing network design.  When week-to-week traffic variations,
which reflect seasonal variations, are taken into account, as in this
analysis, the dynamic transport routing design can provide a reduction in
network reserve capacity.  As shown in the table, the traffic trunk savings
always exceed 10~percent, which translates into a significant reduction in
capital expenditures.

Table 5.1
Dynamic Transport Routing Capacity Savings with
Week-to-Week Seasonal Traffic Variations
(normalized capacity)

Dynamic transport routing network design for transport capacity achieves
higher fiber link fill rates, which further reduces transport costs. The
dynamic transport routing network implements automated inter-BR and access
logical-transport-link diversity, logical-transport-link restoration, and
node backup restoration to enhance the network survivability over a wide
range of network failure conditions. We now illustrate dynamic transport
routing network performance under design for normal traffic loads, fiber
transport failure events, unpredictable traffic load patterns, and peak-day
traffic load patterns.

5.4.2   Performance for Network Failures

Simulations are performed for the fixed transport and dynamic transport
network performance for a fiber cut in Newark, New Jersey, in which
approximately 8.96 Gbps of traffic trunk capacity was lost. The results are
shown in Table 5.2. Here, a threshold of 50 percent or more node-pair
blocking is used to identify node pairs that are essentially isolated;
hence, the rearrangeable transport network design eliminates all isolations
during this network failure event.

Table 5.2
Network Performance for Fiber Cut in Newark, NJ

An analysis is also performed for the network performance after transport
restoration, in which the fixed and dynamic transport network designs are
simulated after 29 percent of the lost trunks are restored. The results are
shown in Table 5.3. Again, the dynamic transport network design eliminates
all network isolations, some of which still exist in the base network after
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Table 5.3
Network Performance for Fiber Cut in Newark, NJ
(after Logical-Transport-Link Restoration)

>From this analysis we conclude that the combination of dynamic traffic
routing, logical-transport-link diversity design, and transport restoration
provides synergistic network survivability benefits.  Dynamic transport
network design automates and maintains logical-transport-link diversity, as
well as access network diversity in an efficient manner, and provides
automatic transport restoration after failure.

A final network reliability example is given for dual-homing transport
demands on various OXC transport nodes. In one example, an OXC failure at
the Littleton, MA node, in the model illustrated in Figure 5.1 is analyzed,
and results given in Table 5.4.  Because transport demands are diversely
routed between nodes and dual-homed between access nodes and OXC devices,
this provides additional network robustness and resilience to traffic node
and transport node failures. When the network is designed for load balancing
between access and internode demands, and traffic trunk restoration is
performed, the performance of the dynamic transport routing network is
further improved.

Table 5.4
Dynamic Transport Network Performance under OXC Failure

5.4.3   Performance for General Traffic Overloads

The national network model is designed for dynamic transport routing with
normal engineered traffic loads using the discrete event flow optimization
(DEFO) model described in ANNEX 6, and it results in a 15 percent savings in
reserve trunk capacity over the fixed transport routing model. In addition
to this large savings in network capacity, the network performance under a
10 percent overload results in the performance comparison illustrated in
Table 5.5. Hence, dynamic transport routing network designs achieve
significant capital savings while also achieving superior network
performance.

Table 5.5
Network Performance for 10% Traffic Overload

5.4.4   Performance for Unexpected Overloads

Dynamic transport routing network design provides load balancing of node
traffic load and logical-transport-link capacity so that sufficient reserve
capacity is provided throughout the network to meet unexpected demands on
the network. The advantage of such design is illustrated in Table 5.6, which
compares the simulated network blocking for the fixed transport routing
network design and dynamic transport routing network design during an
hurricane-caused focused traffic overload in the northeastern United States.
Such unexpected focused overloads are not unusual in a switched network, and
the additional robustness provided by dynamic transport routing network
design to the unexpected traffic overload patterns is clear from these
results.

Table 5.6
Network Performance for Unexpected Traffic Overload
(focused overload in Northeastern US caused by hurricane)

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Another illustration of the benefits of load balancing is given in Figure
5.11, in which a 25~percent traffic overload is focused on a node in
Jackson, Mississippi. Because the dynamic transport network is load balanced
between access demands and inter-BR demands, this provides additional
network robustness and resilience to unexpected traffic overloads, even
though the dynamic transport routing network in this model has more than 15
percent less capacity than the fixed transport routing network. In this
example, blocking-triggered rearrangement is allowed in the dynamic
transport network. That is, as soon as node-pair blocking is detected,
additional logical-transport-link capacity is added to the affected links by
cross-connecting spare node-termination capacity and spare
logical-transport-link capacity, which has been freed up as a result of the
more efficient dynamic transport network design. As can be seen from the
figure, this greatly improves the network response to the overload.

Figure 5.11  Dynamic Transport Routing Performance for 25% Overload on
             Jackson, Mississippi Node

5.4.5   Performance for Peak-Day Traffic Loads

A dynamic transport network design is performed for the Christmas traffic
loads, and simulations performed for the base network and rearrangeable
transport network design for the Christmas Day traffic. Results for the
inter-BR blocking are summarized in Table 5.7. Clearly, the rearrangeable
transport network design eliminates the inter-BR network blocking, although
the access node to BR blocking may still exist but is not quantified in the
model.  In addition to increased revenue, customer perception of network
quality is also improved for these peak-day situations.

Table 5.7
Network Performance for Christmas Day Traffic Overload

5.5     Conclusions/Recommendations

In this ANNEX, we present and analyze dynamic transport network
architectures. Dynamic transport routing is a routing and bandwidth
allocation method, which combines dynamic traffic routing with dynamic
transport routing and for which we provide associated network design
methods.  We find that networks benefit more in efficiency and performance
as the ability to reassign transport bandwidth is increased, and can
simplify network management and design. We present results of a number of
analysis, design, and simulation studies related to dynamic transport
network architectures.

Models are used to measure the performance of the network for dynamic
transport routing network design in comparison with the fixed transport
network design, under a variety of network conditions including normal daily
load patterns, unpredictable traffic load patterns such as caused by a
hurricane, known traffic overload patterns such as occur on Christmas Day,
and a network failure conditions such as a large fiber cut.

The conclusions/recommendations reached in this ANNEX are as follows:

*       Dynamic transport routing network design improves network
performance in comparison with fixed transport routing for all network
conditions simulated, which include abnormal and unpredictable traffic load

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patterns.

*       The ability of the dynamic transport routing network design to
enhance network performance under failure arises from automatic
inter-backbone-router and access logical-transport-link diversity in
combination with the dynamic traffic routing and transport restoration of
logical transport links.

*       Higher network throughput and enhanced revenue should accrue from
deployment of a dynamic transport routing network, and at the same time
capital savings should result, as discussed in ANNEX 6.

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ANNEX 6
Capacity Management Methods

Traffic Engineering & QoS  Methods for IP-, ATM-, & TDM-Based Multiservice
Networks


6.1     Introduction

In this ANNEX we discuss capacity management principles, as follows:
a)      Link Capacity Design Models.  These models find the optimum tradeoff
between traffic carried on a shortest network path (perhaps a direct link)
versus traffic carried on alternate network paths.
b)      Shortest Path Selection Models.  These models enable the
determination of shortest paths in order to provide a more efficient and
flexible routing plan.
c)      Multihour Network Design Models.  Three models are described
including i) discrete event flow optimization (DEFO) models, ii) traffic
load flow optimization (TLFO) models, and iii) virtual trunking flow
optimization (VTFO) models.
d)      Day-to-day Load Variation Design Models.  These models describe
techniques for handling day-to-day variations in capacity design.
e)      Forecast Uncertainty/Reserve Capacity Design Models.  These models
describe the means for accounting for errors in projecting design traffic
loads in the capacity design of the network.

6.2     Link Capacity Design Models

As illustrated in Figure 6.1, link capacity design requires a tradeoff of
the traffic load carried on the link and traffic that must route on
alternate paths.

Figure 6.1  Tradeoff Between Direct Link Capacity and Alternate Path Capacity

High link occupancy implies more efficient capacity utilization, however
high occupancy leads to link congestion and the resulting need for some
traffic not to be routed on the direct link but on alternate paths.
Alternate paths may entail longer, less efficient paths.  A good balance can
be struck between link capacity design and alternate path utilization.  For
example, consider Figure 6.1, which illustrates a network where traffic is
offered on link A-B connecting node A and node B.

Some of the traffic can be carried on link A-B, however when the capacity of
link A-B is exceeded, some of the traffic must be carried on alternate paths
or be lost.  The objective is to determine the direct A-B link capacity and
alternate routing path flow such that all the traffic is carried at minimum
cost.  A simple optimization procedure is used to determine the best
proportion of traffic to carry on the direct A-B link and how much traffic
to alternate route to other paths in the network.  As the direct link
capacity is increased, the direct link cost increases while the alternate
path cost decreases as more direct capacity is added, because the overflow
load decreases and therefore the cost of carrying the overflow load
decreases. An optimum, or minimum, cost condition is achieved when the
direct A-B link capacity is increased to the point where the cost per
incremental unit of bandwidth capacity to carry traffic on the direct link
is just equal to the cost per unit of bandwidth capacity to carry traffic on
the alternate network.  This is a design principle used in many design

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models, be they sparse or meshed networks, fixed hierarchical routing
networks or dynamic nonhierarchical routing networks.

6.3     Shortest Path Selection Models

Some routing methods such as hierarchical routing, limits path choices and
provides inefficient design.  This limits flexibility and reduces
efficiency. If we choose paths based on cost and relax constraints such as a
hierarchical network structure, a more efficient network results. Additional
benefits can be provided in network design by allowing a more flexible
routing plan that is not restricted to hierarchical routes but allows the
selection of the shortest nonhierarchical paths. Dijkstra's method [Dij59],
for example, is often used for shortest path selection. Figure 6.2
illustrates the selection of shortest paths between two network nodes, SNDG
and BRHM.

Figure 6.2  Shortest Path Routing

Longer paths, such as SNDG-SNBO-ATLN-BRHM, which might arise through
hierarchical path selection, are less efficient than shortest path
selection, such as SNDG-PHNX-BRHM, SNDR-TCSN-BRHM, or SNDG-MTGM-BRHM.  There
are really two components to the shortest path selection savings. One
component results from eliminating link splintering.  Splintering occurs,
for example, when more than one node is required to satisfy a traffic load
within a given area, such as a metropolitan area.  Multiple links to a
distant node could result, thus dividing the load among links which are less
efficient than a single large link. A second component of shortest path
selection savings arises from path cost.  Routing on the least costly, most
direct, or shortest paths is often more efficient than routing over longer
hierarchical paths.

6.4     Multihour Network Design Models

Dynamic routing design improves network utilization relative to fixed
routing design because fixed routing cannot respond as efficiently to
traffic load variations that arise from business/residential phone use, time
zones, seasonal variations, and other causes. Dynamic routing design
increases network utilization efficiency by varying routing tables in
accordance with traffic patterns and designing capacity accordingly. A
simple illustration of this principle is shown in Figure 6.3, where there is
afternoon peak load demand between nodes A and B but a morning peak load
demand between nodes A and C and nodes C and B.

Figure 6.3  Multihour Network Design

Here a simple dynamic route design is to provide capacity only between nodes
A and C and nodes C and B but no capacity between nodes A and B. Then the
A--C and C--B morning peak loads route directly over this capacity in the
morning, and the A--B afternoon peak load uses this same capacity by routing
this traffic on the A--C--B path in the afternoon. A fixed routing network
design provides capacity for the peak period for each node pair and thus
provides capacity between nodes A and B, as well as between nodes A and C
and nodes C and B.

The effect of multihour network design is illustrated by a national
intercity network design model illustrated in Figure 6.4.  Here it is shown
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designing for time-varying loads.

As illustrated in the figure, the 17 hourly networks are obtained by using
each hourly load, and ignoring the other hourly loads, to size a network
that perfectly matches that hour's load.  Each hourly network represents the
hourly traffic load capacity cost referred to in Table 1.1 in the draft.
The 17 hourly networks show that three network busy periods are visible,
where we see morning, afternoon, and evening busy periods, and the noon-hour
drop in load and the early-evening drop as the business day ends and
residential calling begins in the evening. The hourly network curve
separates the capacity provided in the multihour network design into two
components: Below the curve is the capacity needed in each hour to meet the
load; above the curve is the capacity that is available but is not needed in
that hour. This additional capacity exceeds 20 percent of the total network
capacity through all hours of the day, which represents the multihour
capacity cost referred to in Table 1.1.  This gap represents the capacity of
the network to meet noncoincident loads.

Figure 6.4  Hourly versus Multihour Network Design

We now discuss the three types of multihour network design models---
discrete event flow optimization models, virtual trunking flow optimization
models, and traffic flow optimization models -- and illustrate how they are
applied to various fixed and dynamic network designs. For each model we
discuss steps that include initialization, routing design, capacity design,
and parameter update.

6.4.1   Discrete Event Flow Optimization (DEFO) Models

Discrete event flow optimization (DEFO) models are used for fixed and
dynamic traffic network design.  These models optimize the routing of
discrete event flows, as measured in units of individual connection
requests, and the associated link capacities. Figure 6.5 illustrates steps
of the DEFO model.

The event generator converts traffic demands to discrete connection-request
events. The discrete event model provides routing logic according to the
particular routing method and routes the connection-request events according
to the routing table logic. DEFO models use simulation models for path
selection and routing table management to route discrete-event demands on
the link capacities, and the link capacities are then optimized to meet the
required flow. We generate initial link capacity requirements based on the
traffic load matrix input to the model. Based on design experience with the
model, an initial node-termination capacity is estimated based on a maximum
design occupancy in the node busy hour of 0.93, and the total network
occupancy (total traffic demand/total link capacity) in the network busy
hour is adjusted to fall within the range of 0.84 to 0.89.  Network
performance is evaluated as an output of the discrete event model, and any
needed link capacity adjustments are determined. Capacity is allocated to
individual links in accordance with the Kruithof allocation method [Kru37],
which distributes link capacity in proportion to the overall demand between
nodes.

Figure 6.5  Diescrete Event Flow OPtimization (DEFO) Model

Kruithof's technique is used to estimate the node-to-node requirements pij
from the originating node i to the terminating node j under the condition

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that the total node link capacity requirements may be established by adding
the entries in the matrix p = [pij]. Assume that a matrix q = [qij],
representing the node-to-node link capacity requirements for a previous
iteration, is known. Also, the total link capacity requirements bi at each
node i and the total link capacity requirements dj at each node j are
estimated as follows:

bi  = ai/gamma

dj = aj/gamma

where ai is the total traffic at node i, aj is the total traffic at node j,
and gamma is the average traffic-carrying capacity per trunk, or node design
occupancy, as given previously.  The terms pij can be obtained as follows:

faci = bi/(sum-j qij)

facj = dj/(sum-i qij)

Eij = (faci + facj)/2

pij = qij x Eij

After the above equations are solved iteratively, the converged steady state
values of pij are obtained.

The DEFO model can generate connection-request events according to a Poisson
arrival distribution and exponential holding times, or with more general
arrival streams and arbitrary holding time distributions, because such
models can readily be implemented in the discrete routing table simulation
model. Connection-request events are generated in accordance with the
traffic load matrix input to the model.  These events are routed on the
selected path according to the routing table rules, as modeled by the
routing table simulation, which determines the selected path for each call
event and flows the event onto the network capacity.

The output from the routing design is the fraction of traffic lost and
delayed in each time period. From this traffic performance, the capacity
design determines the new link capacity requirements of each node and each
link to meet the design performance level. From the estimate of lost and
delayed traffic at each node in each time period, an occupancy calculation
determines additional node link capacity requirements for an updated link
capacity estimate. Such a link capacity determination is made based on the
amount of blocked traffic. The total blocked traffic delta-a is estimated at
each of the nodes, and an estimated link capacity increase delta-T for each
node is calculated by the relationship

delta-T = delta-a/gamma

where again gamma is the average traffic-carrying capacity per trunk. Thus,
the (T for each node is distributed to each link according to the Kruithof
estimation method described above. The Kruithof allocation method [Kru37]
distributes link capacity in proportion to the overall demand between nodes
and in accordance with link cost, so that overall network cost is minimized.
Sizing individual links in this way ensures an efficient level of
utilization on each link in the network to optimally divide the load between
the direct link and the overflow network. Once the links have been resized,

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the network is re-evaluated to see if the performance objectives are met,
and if not, another iteration of the model is performed.

We evaluate in the model the confidence interval of the engineered
blocking/delay.  For this analysis, we evaluate the binomial distribution
for the 90th percentile confidence interval. Suppose that for a traffic load
of A in which calls arrive over the designated time period of stationary
traffic behavior, there are on average m blocked calls out of n attempts.
This means that there is an average observed blocking/delay probability of

p1 = m/n

where, for example, p1 = .01 for a 1 percent average blocking/delay
probability.  Now, we want to find the value of the 90th percentile
blocking/delay probability p such that

E(n,m,p) = sum(r=m-to-n) {Crn pr qn-r >= .90

where

Crn = n!/(n-r)!r!

is the binomial coefficient, and

q = 1 - p

Then the value p represents the 90th percentile blocking/delay probability
confidence interval. That is, there is a 90 percent chance that the observed
blocking/delay will be less than or equal to the value p. Methods given in
[Wei63] are used to numerically evaluate the above expressions.

As an example application of the above method to the DEFO model, suppose
that network traffic is such that 1 million calls arrive in a single
busy-hour period, and we wish to design the network to achieve 1 percent
average blocking/delay or less. If the network is designed in the DEFO model
to yield at most .00995 probability of blocking/delay---that is, at most
9,950 calls are blocked out of 1 million calls in the DEFO model---then we
can be more than 90 percent sure that the network has a maximum
blocking/delay probability of .01. For a specific switch pair where 2,000
calls arrive in a single busy-hour period, suppose we wish to design the
switch pair to achieve 1 percent average blocking/delay probability or less.
If the network capacity is designed in the DEFO model to yield at most .0075
probability of blocking/delay for the switch pair---that is, at most 15
calls are blocked out of 2,000 calls in the DEFO model---then we can be more
than 90 percent sure that the switch pair has a maximum blocking/delay
probability of .01. These methods are used to ensure that the blocking/delay
probability design objectives are met, taking into consideration the
sampling errors of the discrete event model.

The greatest advantage of the DEFO model is its ability to capture very
complex routing behavior through the equivalent of a simulation model
provided in software in the routing design module. By this means, very
complex routing networks have been designed by the model, which include all
of the routing methods discussed in ANNEX 2, TDR, SDR, and EDR methods, and
the multiservice QoS resource allocation models discussed in ANNEX 3.  A
flow diagram of the DEFO model, in which DC-SDR logical blocks described in
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Figure 6.6  Discrete Event Flow Optimization Model with Multilink
            Success-to-the-Top Event Dependent Routing (M-STT-EDR)

6.4.2   Traffic Load Flow Optimization (TLFO) Models

Traffic load flow optimization (TLFO) models are used for fixed and dynamic
traffic network design. These models optimize the routing of traffic flows
and the associated link capacities. Such models typically solve mathematical
equations that describe the routing of traffic flows analytically and, for
dynamic network design, often solve linear programming flow optimization
models. Various types of traffic flow optimization models are distinguished
as to how flow is assigned to links, paths, and routes. In fixed network
design, traffic flow is assigned to direct links and overflow from the
direct links is routed to alternate paths through the network, as described
above.  In dynamic network design, traffic flow models are often path based,
in which traffic flow is assigned to individual paths, or route based, in
which traffic flow is assigned to routes.

As applied to fixed and dynamic routing networks, TLFO models do network
design based on shortest path selection and linear programming traffic flow
optimization. An illustrative traffic flow optimization model is illustrated
in Figure 6.7.

There are two versions of this model: route-TLFO and path-TLFO models.
Shortest least-cost path routing gives connections access to paths in order
of cost, such that connections access all direct circuits between nodes
prior to attempting more expensive overflow paths. Routes are constructed
with specific path selection rules. For example, route-TLFO models construct
routes for multilink or two-link path routing by assuming crankback and
originating node control capabilities in the routing. The linear programming
flow optimization model strives to share link capacity to the greatest
extent possible with the variation of loads in the network. This is done by
equalizing the loads on links throughout the busy periods on the network,
such that each link is used to the maximum extent possible in all time
periods. The routing design step finds the shortest paths between nodes in
the network, combines them into candidate routes, and uses the linear
programming flow optimization model to assign traffic flow to the candidate
routes.

Figure 6.7  Traffic Load Flow Optimization (TLFO) Model

The capacity design step takes the routing design and solves a fixed-point
traffic flow model to determine the capacity of each link in the network.
This model determines the flow on each link and sizes the link to meet the
performance level design objectives used in the routing design step. Once
the links have been sized, the cost of the network is evaluated and compared
to the last iteration.  If the network cost is still decreasing, the update
module (1) computes the slope of the capacity versus load curve on each
link, which reflects the incremental link cost, and updates the link
"length" using this incremental cost as a weighting factor and (2)
recomputes a new estimate of the optimal link overflow using the method
described above. The new link lengths and overflow are fed to the routing
design, which again constructs route choices from the shortest paths, and so
on. Minimizing incremental network costs helps convert a nonlinear
optimization problem to a linear programming optimization problem. Yaged

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[Yag71, Yag73] and Knepley [Kne73] take advantage of this approach in their
network design models. This favors large efficient links, which carry
traffic at higher utilization efficiency than smaller links. Selecting an
efficient level of blocking/delay on each link in the network is basic to
the route/path-TLFO model. The link overflow optimization model [Tru54] is
used in the TLFO model to optimally divide the load between the direct link
and the overflow network.

6.4.3   Virtual Trunking Flow Optimization (VTFO) Models

Virtual trunk flow optimization (VTFO) models are used for fixed and dynamic
traffic and transport network design.  These models optimize the routing of
"virtual trunking (VT)" flows, as measured in units of VT bandwidth demands
such as 1.5 mbps, OC1, OC12, etc.  For application to network design, VTFO
models use mathematical equations to convert traffic demands to VT capacity
demands, and the VT flow is then routed and optimized. Figure 6.8
illustrates the VTFO steps.  The VT model converts traffic demands directly
to VT demands.  This model typically assumes an underlying traffic routing
structure.

Figure 6.8  Virtual Trunking Flow Optimization (VTFO) Model

A linear programming VT flow optimization model can be used for network
design, in which hourly traffic demands are converted to hourly VT demands
by using, for example, TLFO network design methods described above for each
hourly traffic pattern.  The linear programming VT flow optimization is then
used to optimally route the hourly node-to-node VT demands on the shortest,
least-cost paths and size the links to satisfy all the VT demands.
Alternatively, node-to-node traffic demands are converted to node-to-node VT
demands by using the approach described above to optimally divide the
traffic load between the direct link and the overflow network, but in this
application of the model we obtain an equivalent VT demand, by hour, as
opposed to an optimum link-overflow objective.

6.5     Day-to-day Load Variation Design Models

In network design we use the forecast traffic loads, which are actually mean
loads about which there occurs a day-to-day variation, characterized, for
example, by a gamma distribution with one of three levels of variance
[Wil58]. Even if the forecast mean loads are correct, the actual realized
loads exhibit a random fluctuation from day to day. Studies have established
that this source of uncertainty requires the network to be augmented in
order to maintain the required performance objectives.  Accommodating
day-to-day variations in the network design procedure can use an equivalent
load technique that models each node pair in the network as an equivalent
link designed to meet the performance objectives.  On the basis of
day-to-day variation design models, such as [HiN76, Wil58], the link
bandwidth N required in the equivalent link to meet the required objectives
for the forecasted load R with its specified instantaneous-to-mean ratio
(IMR) and specified level of day-to-day variation phi is determined.
Holding fixed the specified IMR value and the calculated bandwidth capacity
N, we calculate what larger equivalent load Re requires bandwidth N to meet
the performance objectives if the forecasted load had had no day-to-day
variation.  The equivalent traffic load Re is then used which in place of R,
since it produces the same equivalent bandwidth when designed for the same
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6.6     Forecast Uncertainty/Reserve Capacity Design Models

Network designs are made based on measured traffic loads and estimated
traffic loads that are subject to error. In network design we use the
forecast traffic loads because the network capacity must be in place before
the loads occur. Errors in the forecast traffic reflect uncertainty about
the actual loads that will occur, and as such the design needs to provide
sufficient capacity to meet the expected load on the network in light of
these expected errors. Studies have established that this source of
uncertainty requires the network to be augmented in order to maintain the
blocking/delay probability grade-of-service objectives [FHH79].

Figure 6.9  Design Model Illustrating Forecast Error & Reserve Capacity
            Trade-Off

The capacity management process accommodates the random forecast errors in
the procedures. When some realized node-to-node performance levels are not
met, additional capacity and/or routing changes are provided to restore the
network performance to the objective level. Capacity is often not
disconnected in the capacity management process even when load forecast
errors are such that this would be possible without performance degradation.
Capacity management, then, is based on the forecast traffic loads and the
link capacity already in place. Consideration of the in-service link
capacity entails a transport routing policy that could consider (1) fixed
transport routing, in which transport is not rearranged; and (2) dynamic
transport routing, as discussed in ANNEX 5, which allows periodic transport
rearrangement including some capacity disconnects.

The capacity disconnect policy may leave capacity in place even though it is
not called for by the network design.  In-place capacity that is in excess
of the capacity required to exactly meet the design loads with the objective
performance is called reserve capacity.  There are economic and service
implications of the capacity management strategy. Insufficient capacity
means that occasionally link capacity must be connected on short notice if
the network load requires it. This is short-term capacity management. There
is a trade-off between reserve capacity and short-term capacity management.
Reference [FHH79] analyzes a model that shows the level of reserve capacity
to be in the range of 6--25 percent, when forecast error, measurement error,
and other effects are present. In fixed transport routing networks, if links
are found to be overloaded when actual loads are larger than forecasted
values, additional link capacity is provided to restore the objective
performance levels, and, as a result, the process leaves the network with
reserve capacity even when the forecast error is unbiased. Operational
studies in fixed transport routing networks have measured up to 20 percent
and more for network reserve capacity. Methods such as the Kalman filter
[PaW82], which provides more accurate traffic forecasts and rearrangeable
transport routing, can help reduce this level of reserve capacity. On
occasion, the planned design underprovides link capacity at some point in
the network, again because of forecast errors, and short-term capacity
management is required to correct these forecast errors and restore service.

The model illustrated in Figure 6.9 is used to study network design of a
network on the basis of forecast loads, in which the network design accounts
for both the current network and the forecast loads in capacity management.
Capacity management can make short-term capacity additions if network
performance for the realized traffic loads becomes unacceptable and cannot
be corrected by routing adjustments.  Capacity management tries to minimize

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reserve capacity while maintaining the design performance objectives and an
acceptable level of short-term capacity additions. Capacity management uses
the traffic forecast, which is subject to error, and the existing network.
The model assumes that the network design is always implemented, and, if
necessary, short-term capacity additions are made to restore network
performance when design objectives are not met.

Figure 6.10  Trade-off of Reserve Capacity vs. Rearrangement Activity

With fixed traffic and transport routing, link capacity augments called for
by the design model are implemented, and when the network design calls for
fewer trunks on a link, a disconnect policy is invoked to decide whether
trunks should be disconnected. This disconnect policy reflects a degree of
reluctance to disconnect link capacity, so as to ensure that disconnected
link capacity is not needed a short time later if traffic loads grow. With
dynamic traffic routing and fixed transport routing reduction in reserve
capacity is possible while retaining a low level of short-term capacity
management. With dynamic traffic routing and dynamic transport routing,
additional reduction in reserve capacity is achieved.  With dynamic traffic
routing and dynamic transport routing design, as illustrated in Figure 6.10,
reserve capacity can be reduced in comparison with fixed transport routing,
because with dynamic transport network design the link sizes can be matched
to the network load.

6.7     Meshed, Sparse, and Dynamic-Transport Design Models

In the meshed network designs we assume an overlay network structure, such
as for example MPLS traffic trunk formed by label switched paths (LSPs) or
ATM virtual paths (VPs).  Such LSPs are formed through use of label switched
routers (LSRs) to establish the paths.  VPs are formed through use of ATM
switches, or perhaps might involve the use of ATM cross-connect device.  In
the meshed network case, traffic is aggregated to many logical transport
links, and the links therefore need to have a bandwidth granularity below
OC3 level.  Such an overlay network cross-connecting capability is able to
establish of mesh of layer-2 logical links, which are multiplexed onto the
higher capacity fiber backbone links.  With the highly connected mesh of
logical transport links, 1- and 2-link routing methods, such as 2-link
STT-EDR and 2-link DC-SDR, can be employed if VPs or LSPs can be used in
tandem.

For the sparse network case, as illustrated in Figure 6.11, logical
transport links are established by use of cross-connect switching, such as
with optical cross connects (OXCs), as discussed in ANNEX 5.  In the sparse
network case the traffic is aggregated to a fewer number of logical
transport links, in which case the links have larger bandwidth granularity,
OC3, OC12, OC48, and higher. For the dynamic transport network design, the
traffic is aggregated to an even smaller number of fiber backbone links, and
in that case the bandwidth granularity is larger, OC48, OC192, and larger,
corresponding to a single wavelength on a DWDM fiber channel.

Figure 6.11  Mesh Logical Network Topology with Logical-Transport-Link
             Layer-2 Switching & Call-Level Layer-3 Switching

For design of the dynamic transport routing network, as described in ANNEX
5, the logical transport links are controlled dynamically within the OXC
network by switching bandwidth on the fiber backbone links to the logical
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networks can be relatively simple. The traffic demands of the various node
pairs are aggregated to the backbone fiber transport links, which overlay
the logical transport links, and then each transport link is sized to carry
the total traffic demand from all node pairs that use the backbone fiber
transport link for voice, data, and broadband traffic. As illustrated in
Figure 6.12, one subtlety of the design procedure is deciding what
performance objectives (e.g., blocking objective) to use for sizing the
backbone transport links. The difficulty is that many node pairs send
traffic over the same backbone transport link, and each of these node pairs
has a different number of backbone transport links in its path. This means
that for each traffic load, a different level of performance (e.g.,
blocking) on a given backbone transport link is needed to ensure, say, a
1~percent level of blocking end to end. With many kinds of traffic present
on the link, we are guaranteed an acceptable blocking probability
grade-of-service objective if we identify the path through each transport
link that requires the largest number of links, n, and size the link to a
1/n blocking objective. In Figure 6.12, link L1 has a largest number n equal
to 6, and link L2 has a largest number n equal to 4. If the end-to-end
blocking objective is 1~percent, then the link-blocking objectives are
determined as given in the figure. We show that the dynamic transport
routing network sized in this simple manner still achieves significant
efficiencies.

Figure 6.12  Dynamic Transport Routing Network Design Model

6.8     Modeling of Traffic Engineering Methods

In this Section, we again use the full-scale national network model
developed in ANNEX 2 to study various TE scenarios and tradeoffs.  The
135-node national model is illustrated in Figure 2.6, the multiservice
traffic demand model is summarized in Table 2.1, and the cost model is
summarized in Table 2.2.

Here we illustrate the use of the DEFO model to design for a per-flow
multiservice network design and a per-virtual-network design, and to provide
comparisons of these designs.  The per-flow and per-virtual network designs
for the flat 135-node model are summarized in Table 6.1.

Table 6.1
Design Comparison of Per-Virtual-Network & Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation
Multilink STT-EDR Connection Routing
Sparse Single-Area Flat Topology
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model; DEFO Design Model)

We see from the above results that the per-virtual network design compared
to the per-flow design yields the following results:

*       the per-flow design has 0.996 of the total termination capacity of
the per-virtual-network design
*       the per-flow design has 0.991 of the total transport capacity of the
per-virtual-network design
*       the per-flow design has 0.970 of the total network cost of the
per-virtual-network design

These results indicate that the per-virtual-network design and per-flow
design are quite comparable in terms of capacity requirements and design
cost.  In ANNEX 3 we showed that the performance of these two designs was

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also quite comparable under a range of network scenarios.

The comparative designs for separate and integrated network designs under
multilink, STT-EDR, per-flow routing are given in Table 6.2 for the
following cases:

*       voice/ISDN-only traffic (VNETs 1-8 in Table 2.1)
*       data-only traffic (VNETs 9-11 in Table 2.1)
*       integrated voice/ISDN and data design (VNETs 1-11 in Table 2.1)

Table 6.2
Comparison of Voice/ISDN-Only Design (VNETs 1-8), Data-Only Design (VNETs
9-11), &
Integrated Voice/ISDN & Data Design (VNETs 1-11)
Multilink STT-EDR Connection Routing; Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation
Sparse Single-Area Flat Topology
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model; DEFO Design Model)

We see from the above results that the separate voice/ISDN and data designs
compared to the integrated design yields the following results:

*       the integrated design has 0.937 of the total termination capacity as
the separate voice/ISDN & data designs
*       the integrated design has 0.963 of the total transport capacity as
the separate voice/ISDN & data designs
*       the integrated design has 0.947 of the total cost as the separate
voice/ISDN & data designs

These results indicate that the integrated design is somewhat more efficient
in design owing to the economy-of-scale of the higher-capacity network
elements, as reflected in the cost model given in Table 2.2.

In Table 6.3 we illustrate the use of the DEFO model to design for a
per-flow hierarchical multiservice network design and a hierarchical
per-virtual-network design, and to provide comparisons of these designs.
Recall that the hierarchical model, illustrated in Figure 3.7, consisted of
135-edge-nodes and 21 backbone-nodes.  The edge-nodes are homed onto the
backbone nodes in a hierarchical relationship.  The per-flow and per-virtual
network designs for the hierarchical 135-edge-nodeand 21-backbone-node model
are summarized in Table 6.3.

Table 6.3
Design Comparison of Per-Virtual-Network & Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation
Multilink STT-EDR Connection Routing
135-Edge-Node and 21-Backbone-Node Sparse Multi-Area 2-Level Hierarchical
Topology
(Multiservice Network Model; DEFO Design Model)

We see from the above results that the hierarchical per-virtual network
design compared to the hierarchical per-flow design yields the following
results:

*       the hierarchical per-flow design has 0.956 of the total termination
capacity of the hierarchical per-virtual-network design
*       the hierarchical  per-flow design has 0.992 of the total transport
capacity of the hierarchical per-virtual-network design
*       the hierarchical per-flow design has 0.971 of the total network cost
of the hierarchical per-virtual-network design

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These results indicate that the hierarchical per-virtual-network design and
hierarchical per-flow designs are quite comparable in terms of capacity
requirements and design cost.  In ANNEX 3 we showed that the performance of
these two designs was also quite comparable under a range of network
scenarios.

By comparing Tables 6.1 and 6.3, we can find the relative capacity of the
single-area flat network design and the multiple-area, 2-level hierarchical
network design (per-flow case):

*       the single-area flat has 0.776 of the total termination capacity of
the multi-area 2-level hierarchical design
*       the single-area flat has 0.937 of the total transport capacity of
the multi-area 2-level hierarchical design
*       the single-area flat has 1.154 of the total network cost of the
multi-area 2-level hierarchical design

In this model the single-area flat designs have less total termination and
transport capacity as the multi-area hierarchical designs, and are therefore
more efficient in engineered capacity.  However, the hierarchical designs
appear to be less expensive than the flat designs.  This is because of the
larger percentage of OC48 links in the hierarchical designs, which is also
considerably sparser than the flat design and therefore the traffic loads
are concentrated onto fewer, larger, links.  As discussed in ANNEX 2, there
is an economy of scale built into the cost model which affords the higher
capacity links (e.g., OC48 as compared to OC3) a considerably lower
per-unit-of-bandwidth cost, and therefore a lower overall network cost is
achieved as a consequence.  However, the performance analysis results
discussed in ANNEX 3 show that the flat designs perform better than the
hierarchical designs under the overload and failure scenarios that were
modeled.  This also is a consequence of the sparser hierarchical network and
lesser availability of alternate paths for more robust network performance.

Next we examine the meshed network designs for the 2-link STT-EDR network
and the 2-link DC-SDR network, which were discussed in Section 6.7. The
designs for the 2-link STT-EDR and 2-link DC-SDR connection routing
networks, with per-flow QoS resource management, are given in Table 6.4,
which again are obtained using the DEFO model on the 135-node model.

Table 6.4
Design Comparison of 2-Link STT-EDR & 2-Link DC-SDR Connection Routing
Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation
Meshed Single-Area Flat Topology
 (135-Edge-Node Multiservice Network Model; DEFO Design Model)

We note that the designs given in Table 6.4 are quite comparable to each
other and have approximately the same total network costs as the multilink
STT-EDR designs given in Table 6.1.

The comparative designs for separate and integrated network designs under
2-link STT-EDR connection routing with per-flow QoS resource management are
given in Table 6.5 for the following cases:

*       voice/ISDN-only traffic (VNETs 1-8 in Table 2.1)
*       data-only traffic (VNETs 9-11 in Table 2.1)
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Table 6.5
Comparison of Voice/ISDN-Only Design (VNETs 1-8), Data-Only Design (VNETs
9-11), &
Integrated Voice/ISDN & Data Design (VNETs 1-11)
2-Link STT-EDR Connection Routing; Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation
Sparse Single-Area Flat Topology
 (135-Node Multiservice Network Model; DEFO Design Model)


We see from the above results that the separate voice/ISDN and data designs
compared to the integrated design yields the following results:

*       the integrated design has 0.948 of the total termination capacity as
the separate voice/ISDN & data designs
*       the integrated design has 0.956 of the total transport capacity as
the separate voice/ISDN & data designs
*       the integrated design has 0.804 of the total cost as the separate
voice/ISDN & data designs

These results indicate that the integrated design is somewhat more efficient
in design termination and transport capacity.  It is about 20 percent more
efficient in cost owing to the economy-of-scale of the higher-capacity
network elements, as reflected in the cost model given in Table 2.2.

The comparative designs for separate and integrated network designs under
2-link DC-SDR connection routing with per-flow QoS resource management are
given in Table 6.6 for the following cases:

*       voice/ISDN-only traffic (VNETs 1-8 in Table 2.1)
*       data-only traffic (VNETs 9-11 in Table 2.1)
*       integrated voice/ISDN and data design (VNETs 1-11 in Table 2.1)



Table 6.6
Comparison of Voice/ISDN-Only Design (VNETs 1-8), Data-Only Design (VNETs
9-11), &
Integrated Voice/ISDN & Data Design (VNETs 1-11)
2-Link DC-SDR Connection Routing; Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation
Sparse Single-Area Flat Topology
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model; DEFO Design Model)


We see from the above results that the separate voice/ISDN and data designs
compared to the integrated design yields the following results:

*       the integrated design has 0.951 of the total termination capacity as
the separate voice/ISDN & data designs
*       the integrated design has 0.958 of the total transport capacity as
the separate voice/ISDN & data designs
*       the integrated design has 0.806 of the total cost as the separate
voice/ISDN & data designs

These results indicate that the integrated design is somewhat more efficient
in design termination and transport capacity.  It is about 20 percent more

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efficient in cost owing to the economy-of-scale of the higher-capacity
network elements, as reflected in the cost model given in Table 2.2.

Finally we examine the design comparisons of dynamic transport routing
compared with the fixed transport routing.  In the model we assume multilink
STT-EDR connection routing with per-flow QoS resource management, and once
again use the DEFO design model for the flat 135-node network model.  The
results are summarized in Table 6.7.

Table 6.7
Design Comparison of Fixed Transport Routing & Dynamic Transport Routing
 Multilink STT-EDR Connection Routing; Per-Flow Bandwidth Allocation
Sparse Single-Area Flat Topology
(135-Node Multiservice Network Model; DEFO Design Model)


We see from the above results that the fixed transport network design
compared to the dynamic transport design yields the following results:

*       the dynamic transport design has 1.097 of the total termination
capacity of the fixed-transport-network design
*       the dynamic transport design has 1.048 of the total transport
capacity of the fixed-transport-network design
*       the dynamic transport design has 0.516 of the total network cost of
the fixed-transport-network design

These results indicate that the dynamic transport design has more
termination capacity and transport capacity than the fixed transport network
design, but substantially lower cost.  The larger capacity comes about
because of the larger fiber backbone link bandwidth granularity compared to
the logical transport link granularity in the fixed transport routing case.
The lower cost of the dynamic transport network comes about, however,
because of the economies of scale of the higher capacity transport and
termination elements, as reflected in Table 2.2.  In ANNEX 3 we showed that
the performance of these two designs was also quite comparable under a range
of network scenarios.

6.9     Conclusions/Recommendations

The conclusions/recommendations reached in this ANNEX are as follows:

*       Discrete event flow optimization (DEFO) design models are shown to
be able to capture very complex routing behavior through the equivalent of a
simulation model provided in software in the routing design module. By this
means, very complex routing networks have been designed by the model, which
include all of the routing methods discussed in ANNEX 2 (FR, TDR, SDR, and
EDR methods) and the multiservice QoS resource allocation models discussed
in ANNEX 3.

*       Capital cost advantages may be attributed to the sparse topology
options, such as the multilink STT-EDR/DC-SDR/DP-SDR options, but may not be
significant compared to operational costs, and are subject to the particular
switching and transport cost assumptions. Operational issues are further
detailed in ANNEX 7.

*       Voice and data integration can provide capital cost advantages, but
may be more important in achieving operational simplicity and cost
reduction.

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*       Single-area flat topologies exhibit greater design efficiencies and,
as discussed and modeled in ANNEX 3, better network performance in
comparison with multi-area hierarchical topologies.   As illustrated in
ANNEX 4, larger administrative areas can be achieved through use of
EDR-based TE methods as compared to SDR-based TE methods.

*       Dynamic transport routing networks achieve capital savings by
concentrating capacity on fewer, high-capacity physical fiber links and, as
discussed in ANNEX 5, achieve higher network throughput and enhanced revenue
by their ability to flexibly allocate bandwidth on the logical transport
links serving the access and inter-node traffic.

*       If IP-telephony takes hold and a significant portion of voice calls
use voice compression technology, this could lead to more efficient
networks.

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ANNEX 7
Traffic Engineering Operational Requirements

Traffic Engineering & QoS Methods for IP-, ATM-, & TDM-Based Multiservice
Networks



7.1 Introduction

As discussed in the draft, Figure 1.1 illustrates a model for network
routing and network management and design. The central box represents the
network, which can have various configurations, and the traffic routing
tables and transport routing tables within the network. Routing tables
describe the route choices from an originating node to a terminating node
for a connection request for a particular service. Hierarchical,
nonhierarchical, fixed, and dynamic routing tables have all been discussed
in the draft. Routing tables are used for a multiplicity of services on the
telecommunications network, such as an MPLS/TE-based network used for
illustration in this ANNEX.

Traffic engineering functions include traffic management, capacity
management, and network planning. Figure 1.1 illustrates these functions as
interacting feedback loops around the network. The input driving the network
is a noisy traffic load, consisting of predictable average demand components
added to unknown forecast error and other load variation components. The
feedback controls function to regulate the service provided by the network
through traffic management controls, capacity adjustments, and routing
adjustments. Traffic management provides monitoring of network performance
through collection and display of real-time traffic and performance data and
allows traffic management controls such as code blocks, connection request
gapping, and reroute controls to be inserted when circumstances warrant.
Capacity management includes capacity forecasting, daily and weekly
performance monitoring, and short-term network adjustment. Forecasting
operates over a multiyear forecast interval and drives network capacity
expansion. Daily and weekly performance monitoring identify any service
problems in the network. If service problems are detected, short-term
network adjustment can include routing table updates and, if necessary,
short-term capacity additions to alleviate service problems. Updated routing
tables are sent to the switching systems either directly or via an automated
routing update system. Short-term capacity additions are the exception, and
most capacity changes are normally forecasted, planned, scheduled, and
managed over a period of months or a year or more. Network design embedded
in capacity management includes routing design and capacity design. Network
planning includes longer-term node planning and transport network planning,
which operates over a horizon of months to years to plan and implement new
node and transport capacity.

In Sections 7.2 to 7.5, we focus on the steps involved in traffic management
of the MPLS/TE-based network (Section 7.2), capacity forecasting in the
MPLS/TE-based network (Section 7.3), daily and weekly performance monitoring
(Section 7.4), and short-term network adjustment in the MPLS/TE-based
network (Section 7.5). For each of these three topics, we illustrate the
steps involved with examples.

Monitoring of traffic and performance data is a critical issue for traffic
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and short-term network adjustment.  This topic is receiving attention in
IP-based networks [FGLRR99] where traffic and performance data has been
somewhat lacking, in contrast to TDM-based networks where such TE monitoring
data has been developed to a sophisticated standard over a period of time
[A98].  The discussions in this ANNEX intend to point out the kind and
frequency of TE traffic and performance data required to support each
function.

7.2 Traffic Management

In this section we concentrate on the surveillance and control of the
MPLS/TE-based network. We also discuss the interactions of traffic managers
with other work centers responsible for MPLS/TE-based network operation.
Traffic management functions should be performed at a centralized work
center, and be supported by centralized traffic management operations
functions (TMOF), perhaps embedded in a centralized bandwidth-broker
processor (here denoted TMOF-BBP). A functional block diagram of TMOF-BBP is
illustrated in Figure 7.1.

7.2.1 Real-time Performance Monitoring

The surveillance of the MPLS/TE-based network should be performed through
monitoring the highest bandwidth-overflow/delay-count node-pair, preferably
on a geographical display, which is normally monitored at all times. This
display should be used in the auto-update mode, which means that every five
minutes TMOF-BBP automatically updates the exceptions shown on the map
itself and displays the node pairs with the highest bandwidth overflow/delay
count. TMOF-BBP also should have displays that show the high
bandwidth-overflow/delay-percent pairs within threshold values.

Figure 7.1  Traffic Management Operations Functions within
            Bandwidth-Broker Processor

Traffic managers are most concerned with what connection requests can be
rerouted and therefore want to know the location of the heaviest
concentrations of blocked call routing attempts. For that purpose,
overflow/delay percentages can be misleading. From a service revenue
standpoint, the difference between 1 percent and 10 percent blocking/delay
on a node pair may favor concentration on the 1 percent blocking/delay
situation, because there are more connection requests to reroute. TMOF-BBP
should also display all the exceptions that there are with the auto
threshold display, which displays everything exceeding the present
threshold--- for example either 1 percent bandwidth-overflow/delay or 1 or
more blocked connection requests, in 5 minutes.  In the latter case, this
display then shows the total blocked connection requests and not just the
highest pairs.

For peak-day operation, or operation on a high day (such as a Monday after
Thanksgiving), traffic managers should work back and forth between the auto
threshold display and the highest blocked-connection-count pair display.
They can spend most of their time with the auto threshold display, where
they can see everything that is being blocked.  Then, when traffic managers
want to concentrate on clearing out some particular problem, they can look
at the highest blocked-connection-count pair display, an additional feature
of which is that it allows the traffic manager to see the effectiveness of
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The traffic manager can recognize certain patterns from the surveillance
data. For example, a focused overload on a particular city/node such as
caused by a flooding situation discussed further in Sections 7.3, 7.4, and
7.5.  The typical traffic pattern under a focused overload is that most
locations show heavy overflow/delay into and out of the focus-overload node.
Under such circumstances, the display should show the bandwidth
overflow/delay percent for any node pair in the MPLS/TE-based network that
exceeds 1 percent bandwidth overflow/delay percent.

One of the other things traffic managers should be able to see with TMOF-BBP
using the highest bandwidth-overflow/delay-count pair display is a node
failure. Transport failures should also show on the displays, but the
resulting display pattern depends on the failure itself.

7.2.2 Network Control

The MPLS/TE-based network needs automatic controls built into the node
processing and also has automatic and manual controls that can be activated
from TMOF-BBP. We first describe the required controls and what they do, and
then we discuss how the MPLS/TE-based traffic managers work with these
controls. Two protective automatic traffic management controls are required
in the MPLS/TE-based network: dynamic overload control (DOC), which responds
to node congestion, and dynamic bandwidth reservation (DBR), which responds
to link congestion. DOC and DBR should be selective in the sense that they
control traffic destined for hard-to-reach points more stringently than
other traffic.

The complexity of MPLS/TE networks makes it necessary to place more emphasis
on fully automatic controls that are reliable and robust and do not depend
on manual administration. DOC and DBR should respond automatically within
the node software program. For DBR, the automatic response can be coupled,
for example, with two  bandwidth reservation threshold levels, represented
by the amount of idle bandwidth on an MPLS/TE-based link. DBR bandwidth
reservation levels should be automatic functions of the link size.

DOC and DBR are not strictly link-dependent but should also depend on the
node pair to which a controlled connection request belongs. A connection
request offered to an overloaded via node should either be canceled at the
originating node or advanced to an alternate via node, depending on the
destination of the call. DBR should differentiate between primary (shortest)
path and alternate path connection requests.

DOC and DBR should also use a simplified method of obtaining hard-to-reach
control  selectivity. In the MPLS/TE-based network, hard-to-reach codes can
be detected by the terminating node, which then communicates them to the
originating nodes and via nodes. Because the terminating node is the only
exit point from the MPLS/TE-based network, the originating node should treat
a hard-to-reach code detected by a terminating node as hard to reach on all
MPLS/TE-based links.

DOC should normally be permanently enabled on all links. DBR should
automatically be enabled by an originating node on all links when that
originating node senses general network congestion. DBR is particularly
important in the
MPLS/TE-based network because it minimizes the use of less efficient
alternate path connections and maximizes useful network throughput during
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activation without manual intervention. DOC and DBR should automatically
determine whether to subject a controlled connection request to a cancel or
skip control.  In the cancel mode, affected connection requests are blocked
from the network, whereas in the skip mode such connection requests skip
over the controlled link to an alternate link.  DOC and DBR should be
completely automatic controls. Capabilities such as automatic enabling of
DBR, the automatic skip/cancel mechanism, and the DBR one-link/two-link
traffic differentiation adapt these controls to the MPLS/TE-based network
and make them robust and powerful automatic controls.

Code-blocking controls block connection requests to a particular destination
code. These controls are particularly useful in the case of focused
overloads, especially if the connection requests are blocked at or near
their origination. Code blocking controls need not block all calls, unless
the destination node is completely disabled through natural disaster or
equipment failure. Nodes equipped with code-blocking controls can typically
control a percentage of the connection requests to a particular code. The
controlled E.164 name (dialed number code), for example, may be NPA, NXX,
NPA-NXX, or NPA-NXX-XXXX, when in the latter case one specific customer is
the target of a focused overload.

A call-gapping control, illustrated in Figure 7.2, is typically used by
network managers in a focused connection request overload, such as sometimes
occurs with radio call-in give-away contests.

Call gapping allows one connection request for a controlled code or set of
codes to be accepted into the network, by each node, once every x seconds,
and connection requests arriving after the accepted connection request are
rejected for the next x seconds. In this way, call gapping throttles the
connection requests and prevents the overload of the network to a particular
focal point.

An expansive control is also required. Reroute controls should be able to
modify routes by inserting additional paths at the beginning, middle, or end
of a path sequence. Such reroutes should be inserted manually or
automatically through TMOF-BBP. When a reroute is active on a node pair, DBR
should be prevented on that node pair from going into the cancel mode, even
if the overflow/delay is heavy enough on a particular node pair to trigger
the DBR cancel mode. Hence, if a reroute is active, connection requests
should have a chance to use the reroute paths and not be blocked prematurely
by the DBR cancel mode.

Figure 7.2  Call Gap Control

In the MPLS/TE-based network, a display should be used to graphically
represent the controls in effect. Depending on the control in place, either
a certain shape or a certain color should tell traffic managers which
control is implemented. Traffic managers should be able to tell if a
particular control at a node is the only control on that node. Different
symbols should be used for the node depending on the controls that are in
effect.

7.2.3 Work Center Functions

7.2.3.1 Automatic Controls

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and if there is spare capacity, traffic managers can decide to reroute. In
the example focus-overload situation, the links are occupied sufficiently,
and there is often no network capacity available for reroutes. The DBR
control is normally active at the time. In order to get connection requests
out of focus-overload-node, traffic managers sometimes must manually disable
the DBR control at the focus-overload-node. This gave preference to
connection requests going out of the focus-overload-node. Thereby, the
focus-overload-node gets much better completion of outgoing connection
requests than will the other nodes at completing calls into the
focus-overload node. This control results in using the link capacity more
efficiently.

Traffic managers should be able to manually enable or inhibit DBR and also
inhibit the skip/cancel mechanism for both DBR and DOC. Traffic managers
should monitor DOC controls very closely because they indicate switching
congestion or failure.  Therefore, DOC activations should be investigated
much more thoroughly and more quickly than DBR activations, which are
frequently triggered by normal heavy traffic.

7.2.3.2 Code Controls

Code controls are used to cancel connection requests for very hard-to-reach
codes. Code control is used when connection requests cannot complete to a
point in the network or there is isolation. For example, traffic managers
should use code controls for a focus overload situation, such as caused by
an earthquake, in which there can be isolation. Normal hard-to-reach traffic
caused by heavy calling volumes will be blocked by the DBR control, as
described above.

Traffic managers should use data on hard-to-reach codes in certain
situations for problem analysis. For example, if there is a problem in a
particular area, one of the early things traffic managers should look at is
the hard-to-reach data to see if they can identify one code or many codes
that are hard to reach and if they are from one location or several
locations.

7.2.3.3 Reroute Controls

Traffic managers should sometimes use manual reroute even when an automatic
reroute capability is there. Reroutes are used primarily for transport
failures or heavy traffic surges, such as traffic on heavier than normal
days, where the surge is above the normal capabilities of the network to
handle the load. Those are the two prime reasons for rerouting. Traffic
managers do not usually reroute into a disaster area.

7.2.3.4 Peak-Day Control

Peak-day routing in the MPLS/TE-based network should involve using the
primary (shortest) path (CRLSP) as the only engineered path and then the
remaining available paths as alternate paths all subject to DBR controls.
The effectiveness of the additional alternate paths and reroute capabilities
depends very much on the peak day itself. The greater the peak-day traffic,
the less effective the alternate paths are. That is, on the higher peak
days, such as Christmas and Mother's Day, the network is filled with
connections mostly on shortest paths. On lower peak days, such as Easter or
Father's Day, the use of alternate paths and rerouting capabilities are more
effective. This is because the peaks, although they are high and have an

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abnormal traffic pattern, are not as high as on Christmas or Mother's Day.
So on these days there is additional capacity to complete connection
requests on the alternate paths. Reroute paths are particularly available in
the early morning and late evening. Depending on the peak day, at times
there is also a lull in the afternoon, and TMOF-BBP should normally be able
to find reroute paths that are available.

7.2.4 Traffic Management on Peak Days

A typical peak-day routing method uses the shortest path between node pairs
as the only engineered path, followed by alternate paths protected by DBR.
This method is more effective during the lighter peak days such as
Thanksgiving, Easter, and Father's Day. With the lighter loads, when the
network is not fully saturated, there is a much better chance of using the
alternate paths.  However, when we enter the network busy hour or
combination of busy hours, with a peak load over most of the network, the
routing method at that point drops back to shortest-path routing because of
the effect of bandwidth reservation. At other times the alternate paths are
very effective in completing calls.

7.2.5 Interfaces to Other Work Centers

The main interaction traffic managers have is with the capacity managers.
Traffic managers notify capacity managers of conditions in the network that
are affecting the data that they use in making decisions as to whether or
not to add capacity.   Examples are transport failures and node failures
that would distort traffic data. A node congestion signal can trigger DOC;
DOC cancels all traffic destined to a node while the node congestion is
active. All connection requests to the failed node are reflected as overflow
connection requests for the duration of the node congestion condition. This
can be a considerable amount of canceled traffic.  The capacity manager
notifies traffic managers of the new link capacity requirements that they
are trying to get installed but that are delayed.  Traffic managers can then
expect to see congestion on a daily basis or several times a week until the
capacity is added. This type of information is passed back and forth on a
weekly or perhaps daily basis.

7.3 Capacity Management---Forecasting

In this section we concentrate on the forecasting of MPLS/TE-based
node-to-node loads and the sizing of the MPLS/TE-based network. We also
discuss the interactions of network forecasters with other work centers
responsible for MPLS/TE-based network operations.

Network forecasting functions should be performed from a capacity
administration center and supported by network forecasting operations
functions integrated into the BBP (NFOF-BBP). A functional block diagram of
NFOF-BBP is illustrated in Figure 7.3. In the following two sections we
discuss the steps involved in each functional block.

7.3.1 Load forecasting

7.3.1.1 Configuration Database Functions

As illustrated in Figure 7.3, the configuration database is used in the
forecasting function, and within this database are defined various specific
components of the network itself, for example: backbone nodes, access nodes,

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transport points of presence, buildings, manholes, microwave towers, and
other facilities.

Figure 7.3  Capacity Management Functions within Bandwidth-Broker Processor

Forecasters maintain configuration data for designing and forecasting the
MPLS/TE-based network.  Included in the data for each backbone node and
access node, for example, are the number/name translation capabilities,
equipment type, type of signaling, homing arrangement, international routing
capabilities, operator service routing capabilities, and billing/recording
capabilities.  When a forecast cycle is started, which is normally each
month, the first step is to extract the relevant pieces of information from
the configuration database that are necessary to drive network forecasting
operations functions (NFOF-BBP). One of information items indicates the date
of the forecast view; this is when the configuration files were frozen,
which then represents the network structure at the time the forecast is
generated.

7.3.1.2 Load Aggregation, Basing, and Projection Functions

NFOF-BBP should process data from a centralized message database, which
represents a record of all connection requests placed on the network, over
four study periods within each year, for example, March, May, August, and
November, each a 20-day study period. From the centralized a sampling method
can be used, for example a 5 percent sample of recorded connections for 20
days.  Forecasters can then equate that 5 percent, 20-day sample to one
average business day.  The load information then consists of messages and
traffic load by study period. In the load aggregation step, NFOF-BBP may
apply nonconversation time factors to equate the traffic load obtained from
billed traffic load to the actual holding time traffic load.

The next step in load forecasting is to aggregate all of the
access-node-to-access-node loads up to the backbone node-pair level. This
produces the backbone-node-to-backbone-node traffic item sets. These
node-to-node traffic item sets are then routed to the candidate links.
NFOF-BBP should then project those aggregated loads into the future, using
smoothing techniques to compare the current measured data with the
previously projected data and to determine an optimal estimate of the base
and projected loads. The result is the initially projected loads that are
ready for forecaster adjustments and business/econometric adjustments.

7.3.1.3 Load Adjustment Cycle and View of Business Adjustment Cycle

Once NFOF-BBP smoothes and projects the data, forecasters can then enter a
load adjustment cycle. This should be an online process that has the
capability to go into the projected load file for all the forecast periods
for all the years
and apply forecaster-established thresholds to those loads. For example, if
the forecaster requests to see any projected load that has deviated more
than 15 percent from what it was projected to be in the last forecast cycle,
a load analysis module in NFOF-BBP should search through all the node pairs
that the forecaster is responsible for, sort out the ones that exceed the
thresholds, and print them on a display. The forecaster then has the option
to change the projected loads or accept them.

After the adjustment cycle is complete and the forecasters have adjusted the
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data, or specifically planned events that cause a change in load,
forecasters should then apply the view of the business adjustments. Up to
this point, the projection of loads has been based on projection models and
network structure changes, as well as the base study period billing data.
The view of the business adjustment is intended to adjust the future network
loads to compensate for the effects of competition, rate changes, and
econometric factors on the growth rate.  This econometric adjustment process
tries to encompass those
factors in an adjustment that is applied to the traffic growth rates. Growth
rate adjustments should be made for each business, residence, and service
category, since econometric effects vary according to service category.

7.3.2 Network Design

Given the MPLS/TE-based node-pair loads, adjusted by the forecasters, and
also adjusted for econometric projections, the network design model should
then be executed by NFOF-BCC based on those traffic loads. The node-to-node
loads are estimated for each hourly backbone-node-to-backbone-node traffic
load, including the minute-to-minute variability and the day-to-day
variation, plus the control parameters.  The access-node-to-backbone-node
links should also be sized in this step.

A list of all the MPLS/TE-based node pairs should then be sent to the
transport planning database, from which is extracted transport information
relative to the transport network between the node pairs on that list. Once
the information has been processed in the design model, NFOF-BBP should
output the MPLS/TE-based forecast report.  Once the design model has run for
a forecast cycle, the forecast file and routing information should be sent
downstream to the provisioning systems, planning systems, and capacity
management system, and the capacity manager takes over from there as far as
implementing the routing and the link capacity called for in the forecast.

7.3.3 Work Center Functions

Capacity management and forecasting operation should be centralized. Work
should be divided on a geographic basis so that the MPLS/TE-based forecaster
and capacity manager for a region can work with specific work centers within
the region. These work centers include the node planning and implementation
organizations and the transport planning and implementation organizations.
Their primary interface should be with the system that is responsible for
issuing the orders to augment link capacity. Another interface is with the
routing organization that processes the routing information coming out of
NFOF-BBP.

NFOF-BBP should provide a considerable amount of automation, and as such
people can spend their time on more productive activities. By combining the
forecasting job and the capacity management job into one centralized
operation, additional efficiencies are achieved from a reduction in
fragmentation. By centralizing the operations, this avoids duplication from
distributing the operation within regional groups. And, with the automation,
time need only be spent to clear a problem or analyze data outliers, rather
than to check and verify everything.

This operation requires people who are able to understand and deal with a
more complex network, and the network complexity will continue to increase
as new technology and services are introduced. Other disciplines can
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planning, equipment ordering, and inventory control.   With centralized
equipment-ordering and inventory control, for example, all equipment
required for the network can be bulk ordered and distributed. This leads to
a much more efficient use of inventory.

7.3.4 Interfaces to Other Work Centers

Network forecasters work cooperatively with node planners, transport
planners, traffic managers, and capacity managers. With an MPLS/TE network,
forecasting, capacity management, and traffic management must tie together
closely. One way to develop those close relationships is by having
centralized, compact work centers. The forecasting process essentially
drives all the downstream construction and planning processes for an entire
network operation.

7.4 Capacity Management---Daily and Weekly Performance Monitoring

In this section we concentrate on the analysis of node-to-node capacity
management data and the design of the MPLS/TE-based network. Capacity
management becomes mandatory at times, as seen from the node-to-node traffic
data, when significant congestion problems are extant in the network or when
it is time to implement a new forecast. We discuss the interactions of
capacity managers with other work centers responsible for MPLS/TE-based
network operation.  Capacity management functions should be performed from a
capacity administration center and should be supported by the capacity
management operations functions embedded, for example, in the BBP (denoted
here as the CMOF-BBP). A functional block diagram of the CMOF-BBP is
illustrated within the lower three blocks of Figure 7.3. In the following
sections we discuss the processes in each functional block.

7.4.1 Daily Congestion Analysis Functions

A daily congestion summary should be used to give a breakdown of the highest
to the lowest node-pair congestion that occurred the preceding day. This is
an exception-reporting function, in which there should be an ability to
change the display threshold. For example, the capacity manager can request
to see only node pairs whose congestion level is greater than 10 percent.
Capacity managers investigate to find out whether they should exclude these
data and, if so, for what reason. One reason for excluding data is to keep
them from downstream processing if they are associated with an abnormal
network condition. This would prevent designing the network for this type of
nonrecurring network condition. In order to find out what the network
condition was, capacity managers consult with the traffic managers. If, for
example, traffic managers indicate that the data is associated with an
abnormal network condition, such as a focused overload due to flooding the
night before, then capacity managers may elect to exclude the data.

7.4.2 Study-week Congestion Analysis Functions

The CMOF-BBP functions should also support weekly congestion analysis.  This
should normally occur after capacity managers form the weekly average using
the previous week's data. The study-week data should then be used in the
downstream processing to develop the study-period average. The weekly
congestion data are set up basically the same way as the daily congestion
data and give the node pairs that had congestion for the week.  This
study-week congestion analysis function gives another opportunity to review
the data to see if there is a need to exclude any weekly data.

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7.4.3 Study-period Congestion Analysis Functions

Once each week, the study-period average should be formed using the most
current four weeks of data. The study-period congestion summary gives an
idea of the congestion during the most current study period, in which node
pairs that experienced average business day average blocking/delay greater
than 1 percent are identified.  If congestion is found for a particular node
pair in a particular hour, the design model may be exercised to solve the
congestion problem. In order to determine whether they should run the design
model for that problem hour, capacity managers should first look at the
study-period congestion detail data.  For the node pair in question they
look at the 24 hours of data to see if there are any other hours for that
node pair that should be investigated. Capacity managers should also
determine if there is pending capacity addition for the problem node pair.

7.5 Capacity Management---Short-Term Network Adjustment

7.5.1 Network Design Functions

There are several features should be available in the design model.  First,
capacity managers should be able to select a routing change option. With
this option, the design model should make routing table changes to utilize
the network capacity that is in place to minimize congestion. The design
model should also design the network to the specified grade-of-service
objectives. If it cannot meet the objectives with the network capacity in
place, it specifies how much capacity to add to which links in order to meet
the performance objectives. The routing table update implementation should
be automatic from the CMOF-BBP all the way through to the network nodes.  An
evaluator option of the design model should be available to determine the
carried traffic per link, or network efficiency, for every link in the
network for the busiest hour.

7.5.2 Work Center Functions

Certain sections of the network should be assigned so that all capacity
managers have an equal share of links that they are responsible for. Each
capacity manager therefore deals primarily with one region. Capacity
managers also need to work with transport planners so that the transport
capacity planned for the links under the capacity manager's responsibility
is available to the capacity manager. If, on a short-term basis, capacity
has to be added to the network, capacity managers find out from the
transport planner whether the transport capacity is available. CMOF-BBP is
highly automated, and the time the capacity manager spends working with
CMOF-BBP system displays should be small compared with other daily
responsibilities. One of the most time-consuming work functions is following
up on the capacity orders to determine status: Are they in the field? Does
the field have them? Do they have the node equipment working? If capacity
orders are delayed, the capacity manager is responsible for making sure that
the capacity is added to the network as soon as possible. With the normal
amount of network activity going on, that is the most time-consuming part of
the work center function.

7.5.3 Interfaces to Other Work Centers

The capacity manager needs to work with the forecasters to learn of network
activity that will affect the MPLS/TE-based network. Of concern are new

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nodes coming into the network capacity management activity that affects the
MPLS/TE-based network. Capacity managers should interact quite frequently
with traffic managers to learn of network conditions such as cable cuts,
floods, or disasters. Capacity managers detect such activities the next day
in the data; the network problem stands out immediately. Before they exclude
the data, however, capacity managers need to talk with the traffic managers
to find out specifically what the problem was in the network. In some cases,
capacity managers will share information with them about something going on
that they may not be aware of. For example, capacity managers may be able to
see failure events in the data, and they can share this type of information
with the traffic managers. Other information capacity managers might share
with traffic managers relates to peak days. Capacity managers are able the
next morning to give the traffic managers the actual reports and information
of the load and congestion experienced in the network.

Capacity managers also work with the data collection work center. If they
miss collecting data from a particular node for a particular day, capacity
managers should discuss this with that work center to get the data into
CMOF-BBP.  In CMOF-BBP, capacity managers should have some leeway in getting
data into the system that may have been missed. So if data are missed one
night on a particular node, the node should be available to be repolled to
pull data into CMOF-BBP.

Capacity managers frequently communicate with the routing work centers
because there is so much activity going on with routing. For example,
capacity mangers work with them to set up the standard numbering/naming
plans so that they can access new routing tables when they are entered into
the network. Capacity managers also work with the people who are actually
doing the capacity order activity on the links. Capacity managers should try
to raise the priority on capacity orders if there is a congestion condition,
and often a single congestion condition may cause multiple activities in the
MPLS/TE network.

7.6 Comparison of Off-line (TDR) versus On-line (SDR/EDR) TE Methods

With an on-line (SDR/EDR-based) MPLS/TE network, as compared to an off-line
(TDR-based) network, several improvements occur in TE functions. Under
TDR-based networks, TMOF-BBP should automatically put in reroutes to solve
congestion problems by looking everywhere in the network for additional
available capacity and adding additional alternate paths to the existing
preplanned paths, on a five-minute basis. With SDR/EDR-based networks, in
contrast, this automatic rerouting function is replaced by real-time
examination of all admissible routing choices.

Hence an important simplification introduced with the SDR/EDR-based networks
is that routing tables need not be calculated by the design model, because
these are computed in real time by the node or BBP. This leads to
simplifications in that the routing tables computed in TDR-based networks
are no longer needed.  Hence simplifications are introduced into the
administration of network routing. With TDR, routing tables must be
periodically reoptimized and downloaded into nodes via the CMOF-BBP process.
Reoptimizing and changing the routing tables in the TDR-based network
represents an automated yet large administrative effort involving perhaps
millions of records. This function is simplified in SDR/EDR-based networks
since the routing is generated in real time for each connection request and
then discarded. Also, because SDR/EDR-based TE adapts to network conditions,
less network churn and short-term capacity additions are required. This is

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one of the operational advantages of SDR/EDR-based MPLS/TE networks---that
is, to automatically adapt TE so as to move the traffic load to where
capacity is available in the network.

7.7     Conclusions/Recommendations

Conclusions/recommendations reached in this ANNEX include the following:

*       Monitoring of traffic and performance data is required for traffic
management, capacity forecasting, daily and weekly performance monitoring,
and short-term network adjustment.

*       Traffic management is required which provides monitoring of network
performance through collection and display of real-time traffic and
performance data and allows traffic management controls such as code blocks,
connection request gapping, and reroute controls to be inserted when
circumstances warrant.

*       Capacity management is required which includes capacity forecasting,
daily and weekly performance monitoring, and short-term network adjustment.

*       Forecasting is required which operates over a multiyear forecast
interval and drives network capacity expansion.

*       Daily and weekly performance monitoring is required to identify any
service problems in the network. If service problems are detected,
short-term network adjustment can include routing table updates and, if
necessary, short-term capacity additions to alleviate service problems.
Updated routing tables are sent to the switching systems either directly or
via an automated routing update system.

*       Short-term capacity additions are required, but as an exception,
whereas most capacity changes are normally forecasted, planned, scheduled,
and managed over a period of months or a year or more.

*       Network design is required, which is embedded in capacity management
and includes routing design and capacity design.

*       Network planning is required, which includes longer-term node
planning and transport network planning, and which operates over a horizon
of months to years to plan and implement new node and transport capacity.

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