Overlay auxiliary routing: achieving near minimum delay routing solutions for overlay networks.

Zhang Li.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-74).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Abstract --- p.ii摘要 --- p.ivAcknowledgments --- p.vContents --- p.viChapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter Chapter 2 --- Internet Routing and Performance Studies --- p.5Chapter 2.1 --- Border Gateway Protocol Version 4 (BGP4) --- p.5Chapter 2.2 --- Internet Performance Studies --- p.6Chapter 2.3 --- Improve Routing Performance --- p.8Chapter 2.3.1 --- Traffic Engineering --- p.8Chapter 2.3.2 --- Network-layer Techniques --- p.9Chapter 2.3.3 --- Minimum Delay Routing --- p.11Chapter Chapter 3 --- Overlay-based Techniques --- p.15Chapter 3.1 --- Content Distribution Network --- p.16Chapter 3.2 --- Relative Overlay Techniques --- p.16Chapter Chapter 4 --- Overlay Minimum Delay Routing --- p.19Chapter 4.1 --- Minimum Delay Routing in Overlay Network --- p.21Chapter 4.1.1 --- Problem Formulation --- p.21Chapter 4.1.2 --- Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Distributed Computing --- p.25Chapter 4.1.3 --- Optimal Overlay Auxiliary Routing (00AR) Algorithm --- p.29Chapter 4.2 --- Performance Comparing with Optimal IP routing --- p.31Chapter Chapter 5 --- Sub-Optimal Overlay Auxiliary Routing Algorithm --- p.39Chapter 5.1 --- Approximation Conditions to Optimal Overlay Routing --- p.40Chapter 5.2 --- SOAR algorithm Overview --- p.44Chapter 5.3 --- Distributing Traffic over Multiple Paths --- p.49Chapter 5.3.1 --- Adaptive load Adjustment --- p.50Chapter 5.3.2 --- Per-flow Routing Control --- p.53Chapter 5.4 --- Discussion on Marginal Delay of an OAR Link --- p.55Chapter Chapter 6 --- Performance Evaluation of Sub-Optimal Overlay Auxiliary Routing --- p.57Chapter 6.1 --- Experiment Method Description --- p.57Chapter 6.2 --- Comparison of overall delay --- p.61Chapter 6.3 --- Effect of the Routing update interval parameters xx and yy --- p.64Chapter 6.4 --- Comparison of packet loss rate --- p.66Chapter 6.5 --- Comparison of potential maximum data transmission rate --- p.68Chapter 6.6 --- Stability of the OAR load-balancing heuristics algorithm --- p.69References --- p.71Appendix --- p.7