Label switching

Label switching

Label switching is a technique of network relaying to overcome the problems perceived by traditional IP-table switching (also known as traditional layer 3 hop-by-hop routing [ [http://www.linktionary.com/l/label_switching.html Label Switching (Linktionary term) ] ] ). Here, the switching of network packets occurs at a lower level, namely the data link layer rather than the traditional network layer.

Each packet is assigned a label number and the switching takes place after examination of the label assigned to each packet. The switching is much faster than IP-routing. New technologies such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) use label switching. ATMs which have been around for some time also use label switching at their core.

According to RFC 2475 (An Architecture for Differentiated Services, December 1998):"Examples of the label switching (or virtual circuit) model include Frame Relay, ATM, and MPLS. In this model path forwarding state and traffic management or QoS state is established for traffic streams on each hop along a network path. Traffic aggregates of varying granularity are associated with a label switched path at an ingress node, and packets/cells within each label switched path are marked with a forwarding label that is used to lookup the next-hop node, the per-hop forwarding behavior, and the replacement label at each hop. This model permits finer granularity resource allocation to traffic streams, since label values are not globally significant but are only significant on a single link; therefore resources can be reserved for the aggregate of packets/cells received on a link with a particular label, and the label switching semantics govern the next-hop selection, allowing a traffic stream to follow a specially engineered path through the network."

A related topic is "Multilayer Switching," which discusses silicon-based wire-speed routing devices that examine not only layer 3 packet information, but also layer 4 (transport) and layer 7 (application) information.

References

* [http://www.linktionary.com/l/label_switching.html linktionary.com]

* [http://www.linktionary.com/l/label_switching.html] , “Label Switching”, copyright 2001, by Tom Sheldon and Big Sur Multimedia, accessed on June 29th, 2008.


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