Nowadays, MPLS VPN has become a widely used solution on the issue of QoS guarantees against unexpected changes of network environments. This thesis investigates the system performance of the BGP-based MPLS VPN, which supports per class differentiated services. The results are compared with those without VPN.
In this study, the target network is simulated through the OPNET simulator. Through adjusting the network parameters and creating different scenarios, such as network congestion and disconnection, we make statistical analyses based on the simulation results. It is observed that in addition to increasing the labels contained in each packet, MPLS VPN require PE routers be capable of supporting more protocols, such as searching for IP tables, and transferring various tables for the use of routing. Therefore, introducing VPN may increase processing load and overhead for data transmission.
On the other hand, MPLS VPN may take longer convergence time in establishing entire routing messages than Non-VPN. However, when network disconnection occurs, the former has better throughput than the latter due to the shorter convergence time in the search of new routes. Also, if the networks become congested, the transmission delay of EF traffic in MPLS VPN is smaller since the alternative LSP for it is pre-established. For the same disconnected LSP route, MPLS VPN network also achieves better throughput, because the guaranteed EF traffic can be rerouted via different LSP routes. According to our simulation results, the background traffic has the largest throughput decrease, while the EF Traffic has the least.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0810104-095725 |
| Date | 10 August 2004 |
| Creators | Wu, Jung-Chieh |
| Contributors | Tsang-Ling Sheu, Wei-Kucng Lai, Cheng-Shong Wu, Ren-Hung Hwang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0810104-095725 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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