Edge disjoint paths with minimum delay subject to reliability constraint

  • Authors:
  • Ruen Chze Loh;Sieteng Soh;Mihai Lazarescu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia;Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia;Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

  • Venue:
  • APCC'09 Proceedings of the 15th Asia-Pacific conference on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recently, multipaths solutions have been proposed to improve the quality-of-service (QoS) in communication networks (CN). This paper describes a problem, λDP/RD, to obtain the λ-edge-disjoint-path-set such that its reliability is at least R and its delay is minimal, for λ≥1. λDP/RD is useful for applications that require noncompromised reliability while demanding minimum delay. In this paper we propose an approximate algorithm based on the Lagrange-relaxation to solve the problem. Our solution produces λDP that meets the reliability constraint R with delay≤(1+k)Dmin, for k≥1, and Dmin is the minimum path delay of any λDP in the CN. Simulations on forty randomly generated CNs show that our polynomial time algorithm produced λDP with delay and reliability comparable to those obtained using the exponential time brute-force approach.