VPN customer Broadband VPN Services

We present an architecture for customer management and control of a broadband VPN service.The architecture is aimed at giving the VPN customer a high level of control over the traffic onthe VPN, such that end-to-end requirements for the customer's enterprise network can be met.We describe how different control and management objectives can be achieved with this architecture. Its design includes a generic resource controller, which can be specialized in order torealize a large class of control schemes, following a customer's specific requirements. We haveimplemented a prototype of this architecture on a high-performance emulation platform. Theprototype allows us to validate the management and control functionality of the customer control system and to demonstrate the performance characteristics of different realizations of thearchitecture.