Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) introduced by ITU-T G.8032 Recommendation is a new type of packet-switched network protection technology, which can provide ring automatic protection switch. However, the Filtering Datab...Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) introduced by ITU-T G.8032 Recommendation is a new type of packet-switched network protection technology, which can provide ring automatic protection switch. However, the Filtering Database (FDB) flush method adopted in the current ERP standard has the drawback of introducing a large amount of transient traffic overshoot caused by flooded Ethernet frames right after protection switching. In this article, we propose a G.8032 ERP scheme that uses FDB flush based on area to resolve this issue and investigate how the proposed scheme deals with the traffic flooding problem. The theoretical analysis and simulation show that the proposed scheme can effectively improve the performance of the Ethernet ring by decreasing the unnecessary FDB flush in comparison with the existing approaches.展开更多
基金supported partially by National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant No.2011ZX03005-004-03 a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions-Information and Communication Engineering,Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province,China under Grant No.10KJA510037+1 种基金 Open Research Fund of Key Lab of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology（Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications）,Ministry of Education under Grant No.NYKL201108 Natural Science Foundation of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications under Grant No.NY209002
文摘Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) introduced by ITU-T G.8032 Recommendation is a new type of packet-switched network protection technology, which can provide ring automatic protection switch. However, the Filtering Database (FDB) flush method adopted in the current ERP standard has the drawback of introducing a large amount of transient traffic overshoot caused by flooded Ethernet frames right after protection switching. In this article, we propose a G.8032 ERP scheme that uses FDB flush based on area to resolve this issue and investigate how the proposed scheme deals with the traffic flooding problem. The theoretical analysis and simulation show that the proposed scheme can effectively improve the performance of the Ethernet ring by decreasing the unnecessary FDB flush in comparison with the existing approaches.
