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Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering
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Network Working Group D. Awduche
Request for Comments: 3272 Movaz Networks
Category: Informational A. Chiu
Celion Networks
A. Elwalid
I. Widjaja
Lucent Technologies
X. Xiao
Redback Networks
May 2002
Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo describes the principles of Traffic Engineering (TE) in the
Internet. The document is intended to promote better understanding
of the issues surrounding traffic engineering in IP networks, and to
provide a common basis for the development of traffic engineering
capabilities for the Internet. The principles, architectures, and
methodologies for performance evaluation and performance optimization
of operational IP networks are discussed throughout this document.
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction...................................................3
1.1 What is Internet Traffic Engineering?.......................4
1.2 Scope.......................................................7
1.3 Terminology.................................................8
2.0 Background....................................................11
2.1 Context of Internet Traffic Engineering....................12
2.2 Network Context............................................13
2.3 Problem Context............................................14
2.3.1 Congestion and its Ramifications......................16
2.4 Solution Context...........................................16
2.4.1 Combating the Congestion Problem......................18
2.5 Implementation and Operational Context.....................21
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