Personal Profile

Benjamin Niven-Jenkins (ben@niven-jenkins.co.uk) is an expert in global telecommunications standards, content and network architectures and various technologies including HTTP, RTMP, IP, MPLS, GMPLS, VPNs, CDNs, multicast and optical networks.

Papers

• 2010
  • MPLS & Ethernet Infrastructure & Services: BT's Perspective, MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2010, Paris, France, February 9-12, 2010. [PPT] [PDF]
  • Enabling Efficient Packet Transport with MPLS-TP, Technical Tutorial (Presented by Matthew Bocci & Luyuan Fang), MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2010, Paris, France, February 9-12, 2010. [PPT] [PDF]
• 2009
  • BT: Solutions for efficient delivery of Multicast over VPLS, MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2009, Paris, France, February 10-13, 2009. [PPT] [PDF]
• 2006
  • MPLS-based multicast - A Service Provider perspective, MPLS 2006 conference, Washington DC, USA, October 15-18, 2006. [PPT] [PDF]
• 2005
  • An introduction to functional architecture, Issue 2, November 2005. [PDF]
  • Standardisation of Protocols for Next Generation Networks, published by The Bolin Group in The Standards Edge: Future Generation. [PDF]
  • Physically-Constrained Lightpath-Setup in Dynamic WDM Networks, Invited Paper (Presented by Dominic Schupke), 10th European Conference on Networks & Optical Communications (NOC), London, UK, July 5-7, 2005. [PDF]
• 2003
  • Network Convergence onto an All-Optical Backbone, published by The Communications Network in The Journal of The Communications Network, Volume 2 Part 4, October-December 2003. [PDF]
    Errata: In Figure 2, Step 3, the red all-optical connection should be across the top link in the network, not the bottom one as shown.

Standardisation

I have been substantially involved (as the editor and/or as a major contributor) in the development of the following telecommunications standards and Internet drafts.

• IETF
  • RFC6425, Operations, Administration, and Maintenance Framework for MPLS-Based Transport Networks. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC5994, Application of Ethernet Pseudowires to MPLS Transport Networks, October 2010. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC5860, Requirements for Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) in MPLS Transport Networks, May 2010. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC5654, Requirements for an MPLS Transport Profile, September 2009. [TXT] [PDF]
  • draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpms-frmwk-requirements, Framework and Requirements for Virtual Private Multicast Service (VPMS). [TXT]
  • draft-ietf-l3vpn-mvpn-considerations, Mandatory Features in a Layer 3 Multicast BGP/MPLS VPN Solution. [TXT]
  • draft-ietf-mpls-tp-rosetta-stone, A Thesaurus for the Terminology used in Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) drafts/RFCs and ITU-T's Transport Network Recommendations. [TXT]
  • draft-ietf-mpls-tp-security-framework, Security Framework for MPLS-TP. [TXT]
  • draft-jenkins-alto-cdn-use-cases, Use Cases for ALTO within CDNs. [TXT]
  • draft-jenkins-cdni-names, Thoughts on Naming and Referencing of Data Objects within Content Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI) solutions. [TXT]
  • draft-jenkins-cdni-problem-statement, Content Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI) Problem Statement. [TXT]
  • Expired
    • draft-jenkins-mpls-tp-bt-requirements, BT Requirements for MPLS-TP features. [TXT]
• ITU-T
  • Recommendation Y.1401, Principles of interworking, February 2008. [PDF] [DOC (not free) [Other languages PDF & DOC]
  • Recommendation Y.2601, Fundamental characteristics and requirements of future packet based networks, December 2006. [PDF] [DOC (not free)] [Other languages PDF & DOC]
  • Recommendation Y.2611, High level architecture of future packet based networks, December 2006. [PDF] [DOC (not free)] [Other languages PDF & DOC]

I have been involved (reviewing, providing comments or otherwise contributed) in the development of the following RFCs and Internet drafts.

• IETF
  • RFC6425, Detecting Data Plane Failures in Point-to-Multipoint MPLS - Extensions to LSP Ping. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC6138, LDP IGP Synchronization for Broadcast Networks, February 2011. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC5951, Network Management Requirements for MPLS-based Transport Networks, September 2010. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC5885, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for the Pseudowire Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification (VCCV), June 2010. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC5718, An Inband Data Communication Network For the MPLS Transport Profile, January 2010. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC5501, Requirements for Multicast Support in Virtual Private LAN Services, March 2009. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC5439, An analysis of scaling issues in MPLS-TE Core networks, February 2009. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC5129, Explicit Congestion Marking in MPLS, January 2008. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC4875, Extensions to Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) for Point-to-Multipoint TE Label Switched Paths (LSPs), May 2007. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC4834, Requirements for Multicast in Layer 3 Provider-Provisioned Virtual Private Networks (PPVPNs), April 2007. [TXT] [PDF]
  • RFC4687, Operations and Management (OAM) Requirements for Point-to-Multipoint MPLS Networks, September 2006. [TXT] [PDF]
  • draft-bertrand-cdni-use-cases Use Cases for Content Distribution Network Interconnection. [TXT]
  • draft-farrel-mpls-tp-mib-management-overview, Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) MIB-based Management Overview. [TXT]
  • draft-farrel-mpls-tp-recommendation-review-01, IETF Expectations of Participation in Development and Review of ITU-T Recommendations on MPLS-TP. [TXT]
  • draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-p2mp, Label Distribution Protocol Extensions for Point-to-Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths. [TXT]
  • draft-ietf-mpls-loss-delay, Packet Loss and Delay Measurement for MPLS Networks. [TXT]
  • draft-ietf-mpls-mp-ldp-reqs, Requirements for Point-To-Multipoint Extensions to the Label Distribution Protocol. [TXT]
  • draft-ietf-mpls-p2mp-te-mib, Point-to-Multipoint Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Traffic Engineering (TE) Management Information Base (MIB) module. [TXT]
  • draft-ietf-mpls-tp-process, IETF Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) Document Process. [TXT]
  • draft-lefaucheur-cdni-requirements, Content Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI) Requirements. [TXT]
  • draft-watson-cdni-use-cases, CDN Interconnect Use Cases. [TXT]
  • draft-wu-http-streaming-optimization-ps, CDN Interconnect Use Cases. [TXT]
  • Expired
    • draft-willis-pwe3-requirements, Service Provider requirements for PWs, September 2004. [TXT]

Patents

• Pending, Streamed Content Distribution Service. [PDF]
• Pending, A Lightweight Method of QoS Control on Customer Premises Equipment through DNS. [PDF]
• Pending, Service Logic Constrained Content Delivery. [PDF]
• Pending, Accessing a content distribution network. [PDF]
• Pending, Content distribution network. [PDF]
• Pending, Operation of a content distribution network. [PDF]
• Pending, Path and wavelength selection algorithm for all optical networks. [PDF]
• Pending, Path viability check for all optical networks. [PDF]