. IETF RFCs related to the MPLS Architecture IETF-RFC2205: Braden, R. (Ed.), Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)-Version 1 Functional Specification, September 1997, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2205.txt IETF-RFC2370: Coltun, R. The OSPF Opaque LSA Option, July 1998, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ rfc2370.txt IETF-RFC2748: Durham, D. (Ed.), The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol, January 2000, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2748.txt IETF-RFC2903: Laat de, C., Gross, G., Gommans, L., Vollbrecht, J., Spence, D., Generic AAA Architecture, Experimental, August 2000, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2903.txt IETF-RFC2904: Vollbrecht, J., Calhoun, P., Farrell, S., Gommans, L., Gross, G., de Bruijn, B., de Laat, C., Holdrege, M., Spence, D., AAA Authorization Framework, August 2000, http://www. ietf.org/rfc/rfc2904.txt IETF-RFC3630: Katz, K. (Ed.), Traffic Engineering (TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2, September 2003, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3630.txt IETF-RFC4203: Kompella, K. (Ed.), OSPF Extensions in Support of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching, October 2005 IETF-RFC4204: Lang, J. (Ed.), Link Management Protocol (LMP), October 2005, http://www. ietf.org/rfc/rfc4204.txt IETF-RFC4940: Kompella, K., Fenner, B., IANA Considerations for OSPF, July 2007 33. Griffith, D., Rouil, R., Klink, S., Sriram, K., An analysis of path recovery schemes in GMPLS opti- cal networks with various levels of pre-provisioning [aut. libro]. In Z. Zhang, A. K. Somani (Eds.) Proceedings of SPIE Optical Networking and Communications, Orlando, USA, September 7-11, 2003. 34. Resea, B., Multiple hierarchical protection schemes for differentiated services in GMPLS net- works, Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, ITRE 2003, Newark, NJ, USA, August 10-13, 2003. 35. Aweya, J. IP router architectures: An overview. International Journal of Communication Systems. Whiley, 14 (5), 447-475 (2001). 36. Lawton, G. Routing laces dramatic changes. Computer. IEEE, 42 (9), 15-17 (2009). 37. Csaszar, A., et al. Co