7.9 Further Reading

• Network Recovery: Protection and Restoration of Optical SONET-SDH, IP, and MPLS by Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Mario Pickavet, and Piet Demeester (2004), Morgan Kaufmann, provides a thorough and detailed analysis of many of the techniques for span and path protection in transport networks. In particular, it provides additional information about self-healing rings.

• Further details of GMPLS protection and restoration techniques can be found in the following IETF Internet-Drafts and RFCs.

• draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-recovery-terminology

  • Recovery (Protection and Restoration) Terminology for Generalized Multi- Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)

• draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-recovery-functional

  • Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Recovery Functional Specification

• draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-recovery-analysis

  • Analysis of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)-based

  • Recovery Mechanisms (including Protection and Restoration)

• draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-recovery-e2e-signaling

  • RSVP-TE Extensions in support of End-to-End GMPLS-based Recovery

• draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-segment-recovery

  • GMPLS Based Segment Recovery

• RFC 4201

  • Link Bundling in MPLS Traffic Engineering

• The definition of Notify messages and NotifyRequest objects can be found in the following RFC.

• RFC 3473

  • Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Resource

  • ReserVation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Extensions

• The details of alarm information reporting may be found in the following Internet- Draft.

• draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-alarm-spec

  • GMPLS Communication of Alarm Information

• The Fast Re-Route mechanism used in MPLS controlled packet switching networks is described in the following RFC.

• RFC 4090

  • Fast Reroute Extensions to RSVP-TE for LSP Tunnels