Implementation and Performance Analysis of Traffic Engineered Multiprotocol Label Switching Network for IPv6 Clients

Traffic engineering (TE) is one of the effective methods of IP routing used in Service provider networks when routers are overloaded due to uneven utilization of links. Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a routing technique used in computer networks that guides data packets from one node to other node based on the concept of short path labels and speeding the traffic flows to support multiple customers. This project describes the design and Implementation of MPLS VPN (Virtual Private Network) along with dedicated traffic tunneling known as MPLS-TE with the help of Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), Open Shortest Path First protocol (OSPF) and Border gateway protocol (BGP) for IPv6 customers. The network is designed and simulated in GNS3 platform with Wireshark and various QoS performance metrics of the network are calculated to analyze the operational behavior of the network. A performance comparison of tunnel enabled and disabled MPLS VPN network is executed as an additional objective.