Performance Metric of Convergence Time of Information Flooding in Multi- Domain GMPLS Networks
To keep the information of topology and links resource synchronized at each control node, massive messages are necessary to be flooded in the control plane of General Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) based multi-domain networks. The convergence time of information flooding will have a significant impact on the performance of the networks. So measuring and analyzing the convergence time of information flooding in multi-domains becomes very important. A performance metric of convergence time of information flooding is proposed to characterize the ability of information synchronization in multi-domain networks.