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A multipath analysis of biswapped networks.
Biswapped networks of the form have recently been proposed as interconnection networks to be implemented as optical transpose interconnection systems. We provide a systematic construction of vertex-disjoint paths joining any two distinct vertices in , where is the connectivity of . In doing so, we obtain an upper bound of on the -diameter of , where is the diameter of and the -diameter. Suppose that we have a deterministic multipath source routing algorithm in an interconnection network that finds mutually vertex-disjoint paths in joining any distinct vertices and does this in time polynomial in , and (and independently of the number of vertices of ). Our constructions yield an analogous deterministic multipath source routing algorithm in the interconnection network that finds mutually vertex-disjoint paths joining any distinct vertices in so that these paths all have length bounded as above. Moreover, our algorithm has time complexity polynomial in , and . We also show that if is Hamiltonian then is Hamiltonian, and that if is a Cayley graph then is a Cayley graph
Scalable Traffic Engineering for Higher Throughput in Heavily-loaded Software Defined Networks
Existing traffic engineering (TE) solutions performs well for software
defined network (SDN) in average cases. However, during peak hours, bursty
traffic spikes are challenging to handle, because it is difficult to react in
time and guarantee high performance even after failures with limited flow
entries.
Instead of leaving some capacity empty to guarantee no congestion happens due
to traffic rerouting after failures or path updating after demand or topology
changes, we decide to make full use of the network capacity to satisfy the
demands for heavily-loaded peak hours. The TE system also needs to react to
failures quickly and utilize the priority queue to guarantee the transmission
of loss and delay sensitive traffic. We propose TED, a scalable TE system that
can guarantee high throughput in peak hours. TED can quickly compute a group of
maximum number of edge-disjoint paths for each ingress-egress switch pair. We
design two methods to select paths under the flow entry limit. We then input
the selected paths to our TE to minimize the maximum link utilization. In case
of large traffic matrix making the maximum link utilization larger than 1, we
input the utilization and the traffic matrix to the optimization of maximizing
overall throughput under a new constrain. Thus we obtain a realistic traffic
matrix, which has the maximum overall throughput and guarantees no traffic
starvation for each switch pair. Experiments show that TED has much better
performance for heavily-loaded SDN and has 10% higher probability to satisfy
all (> 99.99%) the traffic after a single link failure for G-Scale topology
than Smore under the same flow entry limit.Comment: The 8 pages double column version of the paper is submitted to NOMS
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Joint dimensioning of server and network infrastructure for resilient optical grids/clouds
We address the dimensioning of infrastructure, comprising both network and server resources, for large-scale decentralized distributed systems such as grids or clouds. We design the resulting grid/cloud to be resilient against network link or server failures. To this end, we exploit relocation: Under failure conditions, a grid job or cloud virtual machine may be served at an alternate destination (i.e., different from the one under failure-free conditions). We thus consider grid/cloud requests to have a known origin, but assume a degree of freedom as to where they end up being served, which is the case for grid applications of the bag-of-tasks (BoT) type or hosted virtual machines in the cloud case. We present a generic methodology based on integer linear programming (ILP) that: 1) chooses a given number of sites in a given network topology where to install server infrastructure; and 2) determines the amount of both network and server capacity to cater for both the failure-free scenario and failures of links or nodes. For the latter, we consider either failure-independent (FID) or failure-dependent (FD) recovery. Case studies on European-scale networks show that relocation allows considerable reduction of the total amount of network and server resources, especially in sparse topologies and for higher numbers of server sites. Adopting a failure-dependent backup routing strategy does lead to lower resource dimensions, but only when we adopt relocation (especially for a high number of server sites): Without exploiting relocation, potential savings of FD versus FID are not meaningful
Exploiting the power of multiplicity: a holistic survey of network-layer multipath
The Internet is inherently a multipath network: For an underlying network with only a single path, connecting various nodes would have been debilitatingly fragile. Unfortunately, traditional Internet technologies have been designed around the restrictive assumption of a single working path between a source and a destination. The lack of native multipath support constrains network performance even as the underlying network is richly connected and has redundant multiple paths. Computer networks can exploit the power of multiplicity, through which a diverse collection of paths is resource pooled as a single resource, to unlock the inherent redundancy of the Internet. This opens up a new vista of opportunities, promising increased throughput (through concurrent usage of multiple paths) and increased reliability and fault tolerance (through the use of multiple paths in backup/redundant arrangements). There are many emerging trends in networking that signify that the Internet's future will be multipath, including the use of multipath technology in data center computing; the ready availability of multiple heterogeneous radio interfaces in wireless (such as Wi-Fi and cellular) in wireless devices; ubiquity of mobile devices that are multihomed with heterogeneous access networks; and the development and standardization of multipath transport protocols such as multipath TCP. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive survey of the literature on network-layer multipath solutions. We will present a detailed investigation of two important design issues, namely, the control plane problem of how to compute and select the routes and the data plane problem of how to split the flow on the computed paths. The main contribution of this paper is a systematic articulation of the main design issues in network-layer multipath routing along with a broad-ranging survey of the vast literature on network-layer multipathing. We also highlight open issues and identify directions for future work
Topology Adaption for the Quantum Internet
In the quantum repeater networks of the quantum Internet, the varying
stability of entangled quantum links makes dynamic topology adaption an
emerging issue. Here we define an efficient topology adaption method for
quantum repeater networks. The model assumes the random failures of entangled
links and several parallel demands from legal users. The shortest path defines
a set of entangled links for which the probability of stability is above a
critical threshold. The scheme is utilized in a base-graph of the overlay
quantum network to provide an efficient shortest path selection for the demands
of all users of the network. We study the problem of entanglement assignment in
a quantum repeater network, prove its computational complexity, and show an
optimization procedure. The results are particularly convenient for future
quantum networking, quantum-Internet, and experimental long-distance quantum
communications.Comment: 17 pages, Journal-ref: Quant. Inf. Proc. (2018
Multipath routing and QoS provisioning in mobile ad hoc networks
PhDA Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes that can
communicate with each other using multihop wireless links without utilizing any
fixed based-station infrastructure and centralized management. Each mobile node
in the network acts as both a host generating flows or being destination of flows
and a router forwarding flows directed to other nodes.
Future applications of MANETs are expected to be based on all-IP
architecture and be capable of carrying multitude real-time multimedia
applications such as voice and video as well as data. It is very necessary for
MANETs to have an efficient routing and quality of service (QoS) mechanism to
support diverse applications.
This thesis proposes an on-demand Node-Disjoint Multipath Routing protocol
(NDMR) with low broadcast redundancy. Multipath routing allows the
establishment of multiple paths between a single source and single destination
node. It is also beneficial to avoid traffic congestion and frequent link breaks in
communication because of the mobility of nodes. The important components of
the protocol, such as path accumulation, decreasing routing overhead and
selecting node-disjoint paths, are explained. Because the new protocol
significantly reduces the total number of Route Request packets, this results in an
increased delivery ratio, smaller end-to-end delays for data packets, lower control
overhead and fewer collisions of packets.
Although NDMR provides node-disjoint multipath routing with low route
overhead in MANETs, it is only a best-effort routing approach, which is not
enough to support QoS. DiffServ is a standard approach for a more scalable way
to achieve QoS in any IP network and could potentially be used to provide QoS
in MANETs because it minimises the need for signalling. However, one of the
biggest drawbacks of DiffServ is that the QoS provisioning is separate from the
routing process. This thesis presents a Multipath QoS Routing protocol for
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supporting DiffServ (MQRD), which combines the advantages of NDMR and
DiffServ. The protocol can classify network traffic into different priority levels
and apply priority scheduling and queuing management mechanisms to obtain
QoS guarantees
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