Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (FANP) for Label Switching

Ken-ichi NAGAMI  Yasuhiro KATSUBE  Yasuro SHOBATAKE  Akiyoshi MOGI  Shigeo MATSUZAWA  Tatsuya JINMEI  Hiroshi ESAKI 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E81-B  No.10  pp.1811-1820
Publication Date: 1998/10/20
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Communication Networks and Services
Keyword: 
label switching,  FANP,  ATM,  CSR,  cut-thru,  TCP/IP, 

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Summary: 
This paper proposes and performs the primary feasibility evaluation on Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (FANP), which is a protocol between neighbor CSR (Cell Switch Router) nodes for the management of cut-through packet forwarding, in order to apply label switching paradigm. In cut-through packet forwarding with label switching, a router doesn't have to perform conventional IP packet processing for the received packets. FANP indicates the mapping information between a data-link connection and a packet flow to the neighbor node. FANP defines two key procedures, i. e. , one is the VCID Notification Procedure, and the other is the Flow-ID Notification Procedure. The VCID Notification Procedure lets the label switching paradigm over the label swapped data-link, such as ATM link, though the other label switch architecture can not work over the label swapped data-link. The primary evaluation of FANP has been performed using the prototype system and with the actual packet statistics. The result shows that, with a corporate backbone level, the label switch router system with FANP would work well.