Service Automation and Dynamic Provisioning Techniques in IP / MPLS Environments

PART I - ARCHITECTURES AND PROTOCOLS FOR SERVICE AUTOMATION AND APPLICATION EXAMPLES OF SERVICE AUTOMATION AND DYNAMIC RESOURCE PROVISIONING TECHNIQUES

2 What is a policy?

3 The Radius Protocol and its Extensions

4 The Diameter Protocol

5 The Common Open Policy Service (COPS) Protocol

6 NETCONF

7 Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP)

PART II - DYNAMIC RESOURCE PROVISIONING TECHNIQUES

8 Dynamic Enforcement of QoS Policies

9 Dynamic Enforcement of IP Traffic Engineering Policies in IP/MPLS

Infrastructures

10 Automated Production of BGP/MPLS-Based VPN Networks

11 Dynamic Enforcement of Security Policies in IP/MPLS Environments

12 Future Challenges

Appendices

A XML Schema for NETCONF RPCS and Operations

B XML Schema for NETCONF Notifications

C Example of an IP Traffic Engineering Policy Information Base (IP TE PIB)

D Example of an IP TE Accounting PIB

E Description of Classes of an IP VPN Information Model

Index