Contents

• Proforma
  • Aim of the project
  • Work completed
  • Special difficulties
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • Motivation
  • The Resource ReSerVation Protocol
  • Devolved Control ATM Networks
  • Running RSVP on an ATM network
• Preparation
  • Presentation of the RSVP protocol
    • General characteristics
    • RSVP messages
    • The reservation styles
    • The different states
  • Simplifications
  • The structure of the control architecture
  • Options and tools for development and testing of the RSVP agent
• Implementation
  • Choosing a programming language
  • Overview
  • RSVP message support
    • Raw form
    • Logical form
    • Objects
  • Routing interface
  • Parsing and processing of RSVP messages
    • Path message processing
    • Resv message processing
    • Path Teardown message processing
    • Resv Teardown message processing
    • Processing Path Error and Confirmation messages
    • An incomplete implementation
  • RSVP State implementation
    • The different RSVP states
    • Time-out handler
    • Monitoring the state
  • Switch simulator: RSVP message generation
  • Switch interface: traffic and control operations
    • Receiving RSVP messages
    • Traffic Control: setting up connections
  • Summary
• Evaluation
  • Testing of the proposed solution
    • Establishment of a reservation
    • Adaptation to a change of reservation
    • Deletion of reservations
    • Summary
  • Performance
  • Comparison with standard ATM signalling
  • Comparison with another RSVP implementation
  • Integrating the control architecture in a real network
    • Rewriting the switch interface
    • A traffic control module communicating with the Ariel server
• Conclusion
• Sample code
  • rsvp.object.RsvpSession class
  • Extract of the parser.Parser class
  • state.TrafficControlState class
• Project Proposal
  • Introduction
    • The Devolved Control ATM Networks Project
    • The Resource ReSerVation Protocol
  • Work to be undertaken
  • Variants
  • Resources
  • Start Point
  • Timetable and Milestones
• Bibliography
• About this document ...