Measurements of the Performance of the RSVP Protocol

RSVP (Resource ReSerVation Protocol) is an Internet protocol designed to allow applications reserving network resources. RSVP is used in the QoS context but also as a general purpose signaling control in the MPLS and Traffic Engineering areas. The acceptance of the protocol has been slowed mainly by concerns about its overhead and scalability. This paper describes then the most meaningful techniques standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to overcome this problem, that we imple- mented extending a widespread daemon, and it analyses the results of ex- perimental measurements, comparing them with those of the original RSVP