Security Analysis of the MPLS Label Distribution Protocol

Since its inception more than a decade ago, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) has become one of the fastest-growing telecommunications infrastructure technologies. The speed, flexibility, sophisticated traffic management and cost savings offered by MPLS have prompted service providers to converge existing and new technologies onto common MPLS backbones. Indeed, much of the world’s data, voice communications, video traffic and military applications traverse an MPLS core at some point.