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What is Multi-Protocol Label Switching

Chapter 509
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
A popular protocol for traffic engineering operating in layer 3, in synchronization with the Internet protocol (IP).
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Quality-of-Service Routing
Sudip Misra (Cornell University, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch509
Abstract
The area of quality-of-service (QoS) routing is concerned with selecting routing paths while meeting strict end-toend service requirements involving resource constraints, while achieving optimum throughput in the network. The usefulness of QoS routing is not new. QoS routing is quite popular in the telecommunications industry because of the increased demand for satisfying multiple customer demands and obtaining increased utilization of network resources, while satisfying the varied user requirements.
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