The following list of topics is not exhaustive and authors may propose other subjects in keeping within the thematic framework.
Abstracts may be submitted by email at: info@upperside.fr or remi.scavenius@wanadoo.fr
Deadline for turning in abstracts: July 15, 2011
Feedback from committee members: July 30, 2011
Service Providers Deployments Reports:
• MPLS TP OAM Issues
• VPLS Multicast Deployment
• VPN deployments
• Experience in MPLS Services scalability
• Experience in managing MPLS networks
• VPLS vs LAN Emulation: what makes the
former more successful than the latter
• Experiences with FRR, Diff-Serv aware TE
• Deployment of hierarchical LSPs
• Operational challenges of running MPLS networks
• Migrating legacy services to MPLS
• Transition efforts case studies
• Emulating ATM over MPLS
• Deployment of Layer 2 VPNs
• Deployment of MPLS Point-to-multipoint LSPs
• VPN Multicast Deployment
MPLS-TP:
• ICC and Global-IDs in MPLS-TP Identifiers
• MPLS-TP OAM and Resilency mechanisms
• OTM – (MPLS way or Ethernet way)
• Ring protection
MPLS in Mobile Backhaul:
• MPLS and WiMAX/LTE
• Motivation for MPLS in the RAN
• Scaling MPLS and Pseudowires
• Lightweight MPLS and Pseudowire based aggregation
• Options for packet timing and synchronisation
• Role of MPLS in cellular mobile networks
MPLS in the Enterprise:
• Enterprise best-practices
• Deployment experiences
• Should Enterprise have more control over
paths
their traffic take in Service Provider network?
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Multicast Issues:
• MPLS Architecture enhancements for multicast
• MPLS point-to-multipoint LSPs
• MPLS point-to-multipoint OAM
• MPLS point-to-multipoint LSP Hierarchy
• Multicast in L3 VPNs - challenges,
new solutions
• Multicast in VPLS - challenges, new solutions
• Multicast in L2 VPNs - challenges,
new solutions
• Can LDP and RSVP-TE multicast co-exist in same network?
Access & Core: Packet Transport Technologies
• Lightweight MPLS to the CE
• Role of MPLS pseudo-wires in the access
• Role of MPLS in access broadband networks (MPLS to the DSLAM)
• Packet transport in the aggregation
infrastructure
• Packet transport in core networks
• Technical challenges in packet transport -- performance monitoring, provisioning, QoS, resilience
• Technologies for overcoming the above challenges
MPLS VPNs and Pseudo-Wires:
• MPLS for offering L2 and L3 pseudo-wires
VPNs
• Traffic Engineering issues
• Ethernet services using MPLS
• Scalability
• VPN security
• Future trends : new architectures
• Mixed or Hybrid VPN environments:
how to integrate IPSEC VPN & MPLS VPN?
Quality of Service and Resiliency:
• QoS strategies for L2/L3 VPNs
• Fault tolerance/graceful restart
• MPLS guaranteed bandwidth
• Fault isolation and resource partitioning in
multi-service MPLS networks
Video over MPLS:
• Video Transport in Metro/Aggregation
• Video aware Networks
• Improving Video Quality of Experience
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Management and Planning for MPLS:
• Application of policy management to MPLS
• Provisioning/monitoring/trouble-shooting
• LSP provisioning management
• LSP verification tools/procedures
• SLA verification/monitoring
• Planning tools for designing, modeling, and
simulating MPLS-based networks and services
• Network management for MPLS - practices
and tools
• Billing in MPLS networks
• Setting accurate SLAs,
• Verifying negotiated SLAs
• SLAs for MPLS-based Layer2 VPNs
GMPLS and Optical Networking:
• Current standard issues
• Lambda switching
• Optical VPNs
• Signaling at the edge between optical access
devices/metro DWDM devices
• Applicability of GMPLS in non-optical
technology areas
Performance Issues:
• Scaling requirements for systems and protocols
• Impact of current infrastructure or system
limitations
• Experience in Multicast MPLS deployment
performance
Inter-provider and Inter-domain Case Studies:
• Inter-domain and inter-provider 2547 VPNs
• Inter-domain and inter-provider VPLS
• Inter-domain and inter-provider pseudo-wires
• Inter-domain and inter-provider L2 VPNs
Reports from Interoperability Testing:
• Lessons learnt
• Issues found
• Guidance for MPLS development going forward - for standards, vendors, and providers |
