Abstract
The need to provide differentiated levels of service for e-commerce and
other applications over the internet has led to the advent of Network tech-
nologies such as MPLS and Diffserv which allow us to shape traffic over a
given network. However, translating the needs of an application in terms of
network resources to specific network configurations still remains difficult and
the task is accomplished mostly in a manual way. This is not scalable when
there are many applications demanding different QoS levels of the network
and these needs are changing dynamically. Our effort is focused on algo-
rithms that can automate the translation of application needs to network
configurations in MPLS networks.