Extensions to LMP for Flooding-based Fault Notification
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd
This draft describes extensions to the Link Management Protocol (LMP) for use in flooding-based fault notification in optical networks. We focus on networks that use a common control plane (e.g, Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching or GMPLS). These extensions implement the Fault Notification Protocol, a flooding-based approach to notifying faults to nodes in the network. We motivate the use of LMP extensions for flooding, define message formats and explain the communication messages that occur using LMP.