Everything about Multiprotocol Label Switching

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Multiprotocol Label SwitchingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Multiservice Provisioning Optical Code Switched Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching Optical NetworksInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Computer networkingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Generalized multiprotocol label switching: an overview of routing and management enhancementsCited 219 times
5. Go sideways: RSVP-TEA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Generalized Multi-Protocol Label SwitchingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Generalized multiprotocol label switching: an overview of routing and management enhancements

  A. Banerjee, J. Drake, J.P. Lang · 2001 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 219 citations

• Generalized multiprotocol label switching: an overview of signaling enhancements and recovery techniques

  A. Banerjee, L. Drake, L. Lang · 2001 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 154 citations

• Evolution of multiprotocol label switching

  A. Viswanathan, N. Feldman, Z. Wang · 1998 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 124 citations

• MPLS: the magic behind the myths [multiprotocol label switching]

  G. Armitage · 2000 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 76 citations

• A survey of IP and multiprotocol label switching fast reroute schemes

  Alex Raj, Oliver C. Ibe · 2007 · Computer Networks · 53 citations

• Designing multiprotocol label switching networks

  J. Lawrence · 2001 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 35 citations

• A perspective on photonic multiprotocol label switching

  M. Murata, K. Kitayama · 2001 · IEEE Network · 31 citations

• On Architecture and Limitation of Optical Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks Using Optical-Orthogonal-Code (OOC)/Wavelength Label

  Y.G. Wen, Y. Zhang, L.K. Chen · 2002 · Optical Fiber Technology · 31 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Multiservice Provisioning Optical Code Switched Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching Optical Networks

  Murla Bhumi Reddy, Jaisingh Thangaraj, Vishnu Priye · 2022 · Wireless Personal Communications · 5 citations

• Enzymatic Charge Switching in Asymmetric Dual-Barrel Nanopipettes for Multiplex and Label-Free Bacterial Detection

  Ruyi Wang, Lingfei Han, Mengmeng Hao · 2026 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 5 citations

• An efficient resource provisioning and traffic load balancing in multiprotocol label switched network using optimized gated graph convolution neural network

  M. R. Rajagopal, S. Malathi · 2025 · Wireless Networks · 2 citations

• Operating Characteristic Curves of Optical Packet-Switching Using Optical Code-Division Multiplexing for Label Switching

  Kai-Sheng Chen, Chung-Lien Pan · 2023 · Photonics · 2 citations

• Contribution of Multiprotocol Label Switching Traffic Engineering in Throughput Enhancement

  M M Swami, D P Gaikwad, S S Kolte · 2022 · SAMRIDDHI : A Journal of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Computer networkingJames F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross · 1900
• Big Book of Multiprotocol Label Switching RFCsPeter Loshin · 2000
• The MPLS PrimerSean Harnedy · 2001
• Multi-Protocol Label SwitchingUyless Black · 2000
• The MPLS PrimerSean J. Harnedy · 2002
• 📕Telecommunications Research Associates presents Understanding Multiprotocol Label SwitchingTelecommunications Research Associates · 2001
• 📕Big book of MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) RFCsPeter Loshin · 2001
• 📕Robust Header Compression (Rohc) over Multiprotocol Label Switching (Mpls) NetworksMohammad Ahsan Chishti, Shaima Quershi · 2017

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