Towards decentralized and adaptive network resource management

  • Authors:
  • D. Tuncer;M. Charalambides;G. Pavlou;N. Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • University College London, London, UK;University College London, London, UK;University College London, London, UK;University of Surrey, Surrey, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Network and Services Management
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Current practices for managing resources in fixed networks rely on off-line approaches, which can be sub-optimal in the face of changing or unpredicted traffic demand. To cope with the limitations of these off-line configurations new traffic engineering (TE) schemes that can adapt to network and traffic dynamics are required. In this paper, we propose an intradomain dynamic TE system for IP networks. Our approach uses multi-topology routing as the underlying routing protocol to provide path diversity and supports adaptive resource management operations that dynamically adjust the volume of traffic sent across each topology. Re-configuration actions are performed in a coordinated fashion based on an in-network overlay of network entities without relying on a centralized management system. We analyze the performance of our approach using a realistic network topology, and our results show that the proposed scheme can achieve near-optimal network performance in terms of resource utilization in a responsive manner.