Network services and traffic engineering methods for supporting applications on the VTHD experimental gigabit network

vthd is a high-performanceip experimental network. This network and associated research projects have been partially funded by the French government through the French Research Network for Telecommunications (rnrt) in order to support the development of leading-edge network services on the one hand, and test a wide-scale deployment of advanced Internet applications on the other hand. This paper describes the network services that were deemed necessary to support the deployment of innovative applications, as well as several of the applications that have been experimented on the network. It also presents a selection of the traffic engineering methods and experiments that have been developed in the course of thevthd related research projects. This article describes the collective works of members of the project partners, which are represented by the set of authors for the present paper.