NDLI: Performance comparisons of optimal routing by pipe, hose, and intermediate models

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Author	Oki, E. Iwaki, A.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo Japan (Oki, E.; Iwaki, A.)
Abstract	This paper compares performances of optimal routing by the pipe, hose, and intermediate models. The pipe model, which is specified by the exact traffic matrix, provides the best routing performance, while the traffic matrix is difficult to measure and predict accurately. On the other hand, the hose model is specified by the traffic as just the total outgoing/incoming traffic from/to each node, but it has a problem that its routing performance is degraded compared to the pipe model, due to insufficient traffic information. The intermediate model, where the upper and lower bounds of traffic demands for source-destination pairs are added as constraints, is a construction that lies between the pipe and hose models. The intermediate model, which lightens the difficulty of the pipe model, but narrows the range of traffic conditions specified by the hose model, enhances the routing performance compared to the hose model. An optimal-routing formulation extended from the pipe model to the intermediate model can not be solved as a regular linear programming (LP) problem. Our solution, the introduction of a duality theorem, turns our problem into an LP formulation that can be easily solved. Numerical results show that the network congestion ratio for the pipe model is much lower than that of hose model. The differences of network congestion ratios between the pipe and hose models lie in the range from 27% to 45% for the various examined network topologies. The intermediate model offers better routing performance than the hose model. The reduction effect of the network congestion ratio by the intermediate model is 26% compared to the hose model, when the upper-bound margin is set 25%.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	5
File Size	115335
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424433810
DOI	10.1109/SARNOF.2009.4850317
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-03-30
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Routing Hoses Traffic control Telecommunication traffic Linear programming Predictive models Degradation Network topology Resource management Throughput
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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