Method for establishing a muticast LSP, system for transmitting multicast data

• US 8,005,017 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2008
• Issued: 08/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Guan, Hongguang
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips; Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): SWEET, LONNIE V
• Application Number:
  US12/327,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20090175273A1
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• Field of Search: 370/389, 370/395.2, 370/400
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/04 Interdomain routing, e.g. hierarchical routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/16 Multipoint routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/50 using label swapping, e.g. multi-protocol label switch [MPLS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/15 in relation to multipoint traffic arrangements for broadcast or multicast in data networks H04L12/18

Abstract

The embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for establishing a multicast LSP and a system for transmitting multicast data. The method includes: a MSA node learns and stores multicast stream information; the egress edge node in the MPLS domain obtains the multicast stream information sent by the MSA node by sending a query request message to the MSA node; the egress edge node joins the multicast group, according to the obtained multicast stream information, and establishes a multicast LSP between the ingress edge node and the egress edge node. The technical solution of the present invention supports dynamic implementation of multicast services, and reduces the cost of maintaining a network topology.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a multicast Label Switched Path (LSP) in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) domain, comprising:

learning and storing, by a Multicast Source Agent (MSA) node, multicast stream information, wherein the multicast stream information includes a mapping relationship between a multicast group and a multicast source, and/or the location of an ingress node in the MPLS domain, and wherein the MSA node starts a corresponding aging timer when the MSA node receives a new mapping relationship between the multicast source and the multicast group, and deletes the corresponding aging timer when the MSA node receives a notification about failure of the relationship between the multicast source and the multicast group;

receiving, by the MSA node, a query request message in the MPLS domain, and obtaining and sending corresponding multicast stream information to an egress edge node in the MPLS domain;

joining, by the egress edge node, the multicast group according to the obtained multicast stream information, and establishing a multicast LSP between the ingress edge node and the egress edge node.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein before the MSA node learns and stores the multicast stream information, the method further comprises:

appointing any one of the nodes in the MPLS domain as the MSA node;

wherein the location of the MSA node is statically configured at each node in the MPLS domain;

or

the location of the MSA node is notified to each node in the MPLS domain through a flood message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the procedure, in which the MSA node learns and stores multicast stream information, comprises:

notifying, by a node in the MPLS domain, a change of a statically configured mapping relationship between the multicast source and the multicast group to the MSA node;

or

notifying, by the ingress edge node, a change of a dynamic mapping relationship between the multicast source and the multicast group obtained from the received multicast message to the MSA node.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, upon timeout of the aging timer, the MSA node queries the node that publishes the corresponding multicast stream information on the validity of the multicast stream information;

according to the response from the node that publishes the corresponding multicast stream information, the MSA node updates/clears the multicast stream information, and resets/deletes the aging timer.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein if the MSA node receives no response and detects that the aging timer times out, the MSA node clears the multicast stream information and deletes the aging timer.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the procedure of sending the corresponding multicast stream information to the egress edge node further comprises:

adding application control policy information to the multicast stream information sent by the MSA node;

the application control policy information comprises information on whether to allow the node that sends the query request to access the multicast stream and establish an LSP;

or control information on restricting the node that sends the query request from-accessing the multicast stream or establishing an LSP.

7. A multicast data transmission system in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) domain, comprising an egress edge node, an ingress edge node, and a Multicast Source Agent (MSA) node, multicast, wherein

the MSA node learns and stores multicast stream information, wherein the multicast stream information includes a mapping relationship between a multicast group and a multicast source, and/or the location of the ingress node, starts a corresponding aging timer when the MSA node receives a new mapping relationship between the multicast source and the multicast group, deletes the corresponding aging timer when the MSA node receives a notification about failure of the relationship between the multicast source and the multicast group, receives a query request message sent in the MPLS domain, and obtains and sends the corresponding multicast stream information to the egress edge nod;

the egress edge node joins the multicast group according to the obtained multicast stream information, and establishes a multicast Label Switched Path (LSP) between the ingress edge node and the egress edge node.

8. The multicast data transmission system of claim 7, wherein the multicast stream information sent by the MSA node further comprises application control policy information;

the application control policy information comprises information on whether to allow the node that sends the query request to access the multicast stream and establish an LSP;

or control information on restricting the node that sends the query request from-accessing the multicast stream or establishing an LSP.

9. The multicast data transmission system of claim 7, wherein:

any one of nodes in the MPLS domain is appointed as the MSA node;

the location of the MSA node is configured at each node in the MPLS domain statically;

or

the location of the MSA node is notified to each node in the MPLS domain through a flood message.

10. The multicast data transmission system of claim 7, wherein the ingress edge node notifies a change of a dynamic mapping relationship between the multicast source and the multicast group to the MSA node.

11. A method for establishing a multicast Label Switched Path (LSP) in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) in an MPLS domain, comprising:

notifying, by any one of nodes in the MPLS domain, a change of a static mapping relationship between a multicast source and a multicast group to a multicast source agent (MSA) node, or

notifying, by an ingress edge node in the MPLS domain, a change of a dynamic mapping relationship between the multicast source and the multicast group to the MSA node;

learning and storing, by the MSA node, multicast stream information, wherein the multicast stream information includes;

a mapping relationship between a multicast group and a multicast source, and/or the location of the ingress node, and wherein the ingress node is directly connected with the multicast source;

receiving, by the MSA node, a query request message in the MPLS domain, and obtaining and sending corresponding multicast stream information to an egress edge node in the MPLS domain;

joining, by the egress edge node, the multicast group according to the obtained multicast stream information, and establishing a multicast LSP between the ingress edge node and the egress edge node.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein before the MSA node learns and stores the multicast stream information, the method further comprises:

appointing any one of nodes in the MPLS domain as the MSA node; and

the location of the MSA node is configured statically at each node in the MPLS domain;

or

the location of the MSA node is notified to each node in the MPLS domain through a flood message.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the procedure, in which the MSA node learns and stores multicast stream information, further comprises:

starting a corresponding aging timer when the MSA node receives a new mapping relationship between the multicast source and the multicast group; and

deleting the corresponding aging timer when the MSA node receives a notification about failure of the relationship between the multicast source and the multicast group.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein, upon timeout of the aging timer, the MSA node queries the node that publishes the corresponding multicast stream information on the validity of the multicast stream information;

according to the response from the node that publishes the corresponding multicast stream information, the MSA node updates/clears the multicast stream information, and resets/deletes the aging timer.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein if the MSA node receives no response and detects that the aging timer times out, the MSA node clears the multicast stream information and deletes the aging timer.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the procedure of sending the corresponding multicast stream information to the egress edge node further comprises:

adding application control policy information to the multicast stream information sent by the MSA node;

the application control policy information comprises information on whether to allow the node that sends the query request to access the multicast stream and establish an LSP;

or control information on restricting the node that sends the query request from-accessing the multicast stream or establishing an LSP.