Overview of Ms-Spring and GMPLS: Multiplex Section - Shared Protection Ring

Overview of MS-SPRing and GMPLS
 Multiplex Section - Shared Protection Ring
• Prepared by:
– Diego Caviglia – [email protected]
– Huub van Helvoort – [email protected]
• Background reading: draft-caviglia-gmpls-msspring-req
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Overview of MS-SPRing - Introduction
 Multiplex Section - Shared Protection Ring – MS-
SPRing
• Protects the multiplex sections (lines) in a ring configuration.

– 2-fiber sections
– 4-fiber sections
• The protection capability of the ring is shared

– If no protection required it can be used for extra traffic
– The size around the ring is equal to largest working
capability on any section of the ring
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Overview of MS-SPRing - MS-SPRing 2-fiber
A B C
working traffic
protecting traffic
F E D
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A B C
working traffic
protecting traffic
F E D
4
A B C
working traffic
protecting traffic
F E D
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(ring-switching)
A B C
working traffic
protecting traffic
F E D
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(ring-switching)
A B C
working traffic
protecting traffic
F E D
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transoceanic (ring-switching)
A B C
working traffic
protecting traffic
F E D
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(span-switching)
A B C
working traffic
protecting traffic
F E D
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(span-switching)
A B C
working traffic
protecting traffic
F E D
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Overview of MS-SPRing - Provisioning
 Ring topology: every node in the ring is assigned a unique

identifier;
• Used by the APS protocol
 Traffic matrix: represents the allocation of transport entities

in the ring;
• Used to determine required protection capability
 Squelching map: represents the connection matrix of the

ring;
• Used to prevent mis-connections in case of ring node
failure/isolation
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How does this relate to GMPLS?
 GMPLS provides ideally a robust and flexible control plane protocols set
designed for application over generalized transport network;
 A typical application of GMPLS is, among others, the control of transport
networks based on SDH/SONET technology;
 The typical SDH/SONET network topology is made by interconnected rings;
• the main protection scheme for interconnected rings is MS-SPRing;
 Usually network operators:
• Don’t want to dismiss protection scheme they are used to;
• Wants to sell high value services that need recovery time, at least for the first
failure, in order of milliseconds (e.g. 50 ms);
 In this scenario, the introduction of GMPLS based control plane should ensure
support of and/or compatibility with the most important and widely exploited
SDH/SONET features, making possible a seamless interworking with inherent
data plane requirements.
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What signaling/routing problems arise?
 In general, when setting up and configuring a data plane circuit

traversing a MS-SPRing ring (or segments of it) via traditional
management plane control, special constraints, which are
specific to this kind of technology, have to be considered in
order to ensure its correct operation;
 The same constraints have to be carefully taken into account
when the data plane circuit is no more set up in a traditional
way, but through a GMPLS based control plane;
 The specific constraints imposed by MS-SPRing are related
to:
• Time Slot Interchange (TSI)
• Ring Map filling in case of squelching
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What signaling/routing problems arise? - TSI
 TSI is the connection function capability of changing the time
slot position of through-connected traffic (i.e. traffic that is
not added or dropped from the node);
 At present there is no TSI capability specified in nodes
belonging to a MS-SPRing sub network;
 Channels at MS-SPRing node’s egress are nailed to the same
timeslot used by the same channels at node’s ingress;
 From a Control Plane point of view that means that Ring
Ingress Node (first Node of the LSP that is also part of a MS-
SPRing) should know in advance witch labels (Timeslots) are
free on the ring or some crankback mechanism should be
implemented inside the ring.
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What signaling/routing problems arise? - Squelching
 Squelching is defined as the process of inserting AU-AIS in
order to prevent misconnections;
 The squelching process application over traffic results in an all
1’s signal;
 In order to perform squelching each TNEs in the ring should
know, for every LSP, wich TNE is Ring Ingress and witch one
is Ring Egress;
 From a Control Plane point of view that means that during the
LSP set the above information is distributed among the TNEs
that are traversed by the LSP.
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What signaling/routing problems arise? – Data Plane
Control Plane misalignment
 Before failures
• The LSP goes through A, B, C and D;
• The data traffic goes through A, B, C and D;
 After failure
• The LSP goes through A, B, C and D;
• The data traffic goes through A, B, A, F, E, D, C and D
 Control Plane Needs to be re-aligned with data plane
A B C A B C
F E D F E D
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 Questions
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Overview of MS-SPRing and GMPLS

 Multiplex Section - Shared Protection Ring

• Background reading: draft-caviglia-gmpls-msspring-req

• Protects the multiplex sections (lines) in a ring configuration.

• The protection capability of the ring is shared

 Ring topology: every node in the ring is assigned a unique

 Traffic matrix: represents the allocation of transport entities

 Squelching map: represents the connection matrix of the

 In general, when setting up and configuring a data plane circuit

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