[spring] SR-MPLS traffic engineering Survey

Dekinder Florian <Florian.Dekinder@uliege.be> Tue, 24 February 2026 13:54 UTC

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Hello community,

I’m Ph. D. Student at University de Liège, Belgium, and I’m conducting a survey as part of my researches on Segment Routing (SR) traffic engineering practices among network operators.


We have a technique, called ArEST, allowing us to discriminate SR-MPLS and regular MPLS traffic.  See https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/337150/1/paper.pdf and our Git https://gitlab.uliege.be/segment-routing.

If you are involved in the management of SR in your network, I would greatly appreciate your input.  The survey should take no more than 5 minutes to complete.

Link to the survey<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0vz9hX5VF_Ii2bprgC1neZwVnaA5tGS3fcoVI2Jv_jPnq6g/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=117740394913700139682>

Best regards,

Florian Dekinder
Université de Liège