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What is Label Switched Router (LSR)

Chapter 509
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
An LSR is a backbone router in the physical network topology that runs the existing layer 3 IP protocol.
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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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Survivability Mechanisms of Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching
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