RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MPLS VPN PROTOCOL BASED ON NETWORK PROCESSOR

Wang YongJun, Huang QingYuan

2006

Abstract

MPLS VPN is one of popular protocols in next generation internet. In general, it would be implemented in modern routers. In this paper, the implementation technology of MPLS VPN was studied in high performance router based on network processor. The programming view of NPs is studied and a flexible protocol development software framework is proposed, which considers function partition of protocol into two parts for specific NP and general-purpose processor. Making use of properties of flexible programming and high processing capability of network processor, software architecture of MPLS VPN was proposed, the key technology was designed and implemented, which shows the efficiency of protocol extension and exploits the method to software upgrade of network processor.

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YongJun W. and QingYuan H. (2006). RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MPLS VPN PROTOCOL BASED ON NETWORK PROCESSOR . In Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-46-7, pages 156-163. DOI: 10.5220/0001252401560163


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist06,
author={Wang YongJun and Huang QingYuan},
title={RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MPLS VPN PROTOCOL BASED ON NETWORK PROCESSOR},
booktitle={Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2006},
pages={156-163},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001252401560163},
isbn={978-972-8865-46-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MPLS VPN PROTOCOL BASED ON NETWORK PROCESSOR
SN - 978-972-8865-46-7
AU - YongJun W.
AU - QingYuan H.
PY - 2006
SP - 156
EP - 163
DO - 10.5220/0001252401560163