A Network Architecture with High Availability for Real-time Premium Traffic over the Internet

Real-time traffic will be a predominant traffic type in the next generation networks, and networks with 100% reliability and availability will be required by real-time premium traffic. It is believed that QoS guarantees could be better provided by connection oriented networks such as Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS). These connection oriented networks are more vulnerable to network failure. Conventional path protection methods perform re-routing to cope with this. However, re-routing always causes packet losses and results in service outage. These losses are bursty in nature and highly degrade the QoS of the real-time premium traffic. Thus, 100% availability cannot be achieved by conventional methods. The novel path protection proposed in this paper recovers the bursty packet losses due to re-routing by using forward error correction (FEC) path. Therefore, it can provide network architecture with no service outage for such traffic. The numerical results show that the proposed method can achieve a very high availability for real-time premium traffic in future IP/MPLS networks.

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Mitsuo Hayasaka   received B.E. and M.E. degrees from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests involve QoS controls of real-time multimedia communications, and reliable network architecture. He is a member of IEEE, IEICE and IPSJ. Tetsuya Miki   received the B.E. degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan in 1965, the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan in 1967 and 1970, respectively. He joined the Electrical Communication Laboratories of NTT in 1970, where he engaged in the research and development of high-speed digital transmission systems using coaxial cable, fiber-optical transmission systems including the initial WDM technologies, fiber-to-the-home systems, ATM systems, network management systems, and broadband network architecture. He is currently a Professor at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, and is interested in photonic networks, community networks, access networks, and dependable networks. A fellow of the IEEE and IEICE, he also served as vice-president of the IEEE Communications Society in 1998 and 1999 and as vice-president of IEICE in 2003 and 2004.