Traffic engineering and bandwidth management of bundled links

摘要

Traffic engineering and bandwidth management of bundled links may, at times, require the selection of one of a plurality of component links in a bundled link to use in admitting a connection requiring admission. While performing the selection it may be determined that more than one of the component links has the resources required to admit the connection. An admission policy may then be selected from among a plurality of admission policies. Based on the selected admission policy, a particular component link may then be selected. Such bandwidth management, based on admission policies, may be seen to be well suited to balancing and component link recovery in traffic engineered, connection-oriented MPLS networks.

主权项

1. A method performed in a communication network for selecting one of a plurality of component links in a bundled link for use in admitting a connection requesting admission to the network, the method comprising:
receiving an indication of resources required by the connection; determining that the required resources are available on a plurality of the component links; determining a value of a characteristic of the connection; selecting at least one admission policy from a plurality of admission policies based on the value of the characteristic of the connection; and selecting at least one component link from the plurality of the component links based on the selected at least one admission policy.