Label switch router
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A label switch router (LSR) (sometimes called transit router), is a type of a router located in the middle of a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. It is responsible for switching the labels used to route packets.
When an LSR receives a packet, it uses the label included in the packet header as an index to determine the next hop on the Label Switched Path (LSP) and a corresponding label for the packet from a look-up table. The old label is then removed from the header and replaced with the new label before the packet is routed forward.
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- Zheng Wang (2001), Internet QoS: Architectures and Mechanisms for Quality of Service, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN 1-55860-608-4
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