A Hierarchical Service Management System for MPLS Network Services

Kenji KUMAKI  Ikuo NAKAGAWA  Kenichi NAGAMI  Tomohiko OGISHI  Shigehiro ANO  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E90-B   No.10   pp.2764-2771
Publication Date: 2007/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.10.2764
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on New Challenge for Internet Technology and its Architecture)
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Keyword: 
MPLS,  IP-VPN,  correlation,  hierarchical service management system,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes a hierarchical service management system for MPLS network services. Traditionally, general management systems which have been deployed in some service providers control MPLS LSPs (e.g. RSVP-TE, LDP) and services (e.g. L2VPN, L3VPN and IP) separately. If a fault occurs in an MPLS network, the dedicated management system for MPLS LSPs can detect the fault and recognize the state of MPLS LSPs. However, it cannot detect the extent of the impact due to the fault in each service. Furthermore, its own inability to identify the affected customer means it takes some time to identify the affected customers, cooperating manually with the dedicated management system for services. Therefore, this paper proposes a new automatic correlation between MPLS LSPs and each service. In particular, this paper proposes a new algorithm for a correlation between RSVP-TE LSPs and L3VPN services. Simulations are conducted to evaluate the capacity on a correlation table and the performance searching on a correlation table, and results show this system is very scalable within real MPLS production networks. This system, with the automatic correlation, could be sufficiently deployed in real MPLS production networks.