18. Glossary

API; Application Programming Interface

Programming interface offered by an application.

BGP; Border Gateway Protocol

Routing protocol used between autonomous systems.

BRPC; Backward-Recursive PCE-based Computation

Technique for calculating constrained paths in inter-domain or inter-area environments using collaboration between PCEs.

DSCP; Differentiated Services Code Point

IP packet field used to identify the class of service associated with the packet.

ERO ; Explicit Route Object

Object used in PCEP or RSVP-TE signaling protocols, for example, to represent a path in the network.

GMPLS; Generalized MPLS

Generalization...