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Signaling RSVP-TE tunnels on a shared MPLS forwarding plane
draft-sitaraman-mpls-rsvp-shared-labels-03

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (mpls WG)
Expired & archived
Authors Harish Sitaraman , Vishnu Pavan Beeram , Tejal Parikh , Tarek Saad
Last updated 2017-12-18 (Latest revision 2017-12-08)
Replaced by draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-shared-labels
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Intended RFC status Proposed Standard
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Document shepherd Loa Andersson
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Abstract

As the scale of MPLS RSVP-TE networks has grown, so the number of Label Switched Paths (LSPs) supported by individual network elements has increased. Various implementation recommendations have been proposed to manage the resulting increase in control plane state. However, those changes have had no effect on the number of labels that a transit Label Switching Router (LSR) has to support in the forwarding plane. That number is governed by the number of LSPs transiting or terminated at the LSR and is directly related to the total LSP state in the control plane. This document defines a mechanism to prevent the maximum size of the label space limit on an LSR from being a constraint to control plane scaling on that node. That is, it allows many more LSPs to be supported than there are forwarding plane labels available. This work introduces the notion of pre-installed 'per Traffic Engineering (TE) link labels' that can be shared by MPLS RSVP-TE LSPs that traverse these TE links. This approach significantly reduces the forwarding plane state required to support a large number of LSPs. This couples the feature benefits of the RSVP-TE control plane with the simplicity of the Segment Routing MPLS forwarding plane. This document also introduces the ability to mix different types of label operations along the path of an LSP, thereby allowing the ingress router or an external controller to influence how to optimally place a LSP in the network.

Authors

Harish Sitaraman
Vishnu Pavan Beeram
Tejal Parikh
Tarek Saad

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