This document discusses a topology abstraction (TA) service that enables VPN service providers to share core topology information with IP-VPNs in a practical and scalable way. The TA service provides tunable visibility of the service provider's network, leading to better performance for VPNs. Three decentralized schemes are developed for generating abstracted topologies with different performance characteristics. Simulation results validate the TA service concept and study the performance of the proposed techniques across various scenarios and network topologies.
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