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During the last years, MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) has been deployed by most large Service Providers (SP). The main driver for MPLS deployment is the ability to provide new services with stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) such as layer-2 and layer-3 Virtual Private [...]

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This thesis discusses the implications of the traffic characteristics on interdomain traffic engineering with BGP. We first provide an overview of the interdomain traffic control problem. Then, we present results concerning the characteristics of the interdomain traffic, based on [...]

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In a few years, the Internet has quickly evolved from a research network connecting a handful of users to the largest distributed system ever built. The Internet connects more than 20,000 Autonomous Systems (ASs) which are administratively independent networks. While the initial Internet [...]

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The first generation of IGP Link Weight Optimizers (LWOs) was based on presumably invariant intra-domain traffic matrices only, ignoring the fact that updating link weights had a side effect on these traffic matrices due to hot-potato routing, thus result- ing in suboptimal link weight [...]

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Once multihomed, an IPv6 site usually wants to engineer its interdomain traffic. We propose that IPv6 multihomed hosts inquire a so called "Name, Address and ROute System" (NAROS) to determine the source and destination addresses to use to contact a destination node. By selecting [...]