Real-time bandwidth encapsulation for IP/MPLS Protection Switching

Bandwidth reservation and bandwidth allocation are needed to guarantee the protection of voice traffic during network failure. Since voice calls have a time constraint of 50 ms within which the traffic must be recovered, a real-time bandwidth management scheme is required. Such bandwidth allocation scheme that prioritizes voice traffic will ensure that the voice traffic is guaranteed the necessary bandwidth during the network failure. Additionally, a mechanism is also required to provide the bandwidth to voice traffic when the reserved bandwidth is insufficient to accommodate voice traffic. This mechanism must be able to utilise the working bandwidth or bandwidth reserved for lower priority applications and allocate it to the voice traffic when a network failure occurs.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Electrical Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Lubasi, Mampi Nakutoma

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Murgu, Alexandru

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11816

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11816