Communication Networks

Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (BIER)

Working group: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/bier

Publications

  1. D. Merling, Thomas Stüber, and M. Menth: Efficiency of BIER Multicast in Large Networks, (preprint), in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Managment, accepted, IEEE 
  2. S. Lindner, D. Merling, and M. Menth: Learning Multicast Patterns for Efficient BIER Forwarding with P4, (preprint), in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Managment, accepted, IEEE 
  3. D. Merling, S. Lindner, and M. Menth: Hardware-based Evaluation of Scalable and Resilient Multicast with BIER in P4, in IEEE Access, vol. 9, p. 34500 - 34514, March 2021, IEEE
  4. D. Merling, S. Lindner, and M. Menth: P4-Based Implementation of BIER and BIER-FRR for Scalable and Resilient Multicast, (preprint), in Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), vol. 196, Nov. 2020, Elsevier
  5. D. Merling, M. Menth, N. Warnke, and T. Eckert: An Overview of Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER), in IETF Journal, March 21st 2018, The Internet Society
  6. Merling, S. Lindner, and M. Menth: Comparison of Fast-Reroute Mechanisms for BIER-Based IP Multicast, preprint, in Prodeedings of the International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS), Apr. 2020, Paris, France
  7. W. Braun, M. Albert, T. Eckert, and M. Menth: Performance Comparison of Resilience Mechanisms for Stateless Multicast Using BIER, (preprint), in Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), May 2017, Lisbon, Portugal
  8. W. Braun, J. Hartmann, and M. Menth: Demo: Scalable and Reliable Software-Defined Multicast with BIER and P4, (preprint), in Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), May 2017, Lisbon, Portugal

Internet Drafts & RFCs

  1. H. Chen et al.: BIER Egress Protection, Dec. 2022
  2. T. Eckert, M. Menth, X. Geng, X. Zheng, R. Meng, and F. Li: Recursive BitString Structure (RBS) Addresses for BIER and MSR6, Oct. 2022
  3. T. Eckert, Ed., M. Menth and G. Cauchie: RFC 9262: Tree Engineering for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER-TE), Oct. 2022
  4. H. Chen et al.: BIER Fast Reroute, slides, talk, July 2021
  5. D. Merling and M. Menth: BIER Fast Reroute, March 2019
  6. T. Eckert, G. Cauchie, W. Braun, and M. Menth: Fast ReRoute (FRR) Extensions for BIER-TE, June 2017