Performance of traffic engineering in operational IP networks – an experimental study

  • Authors:
  • Anders Gunnar;Henrik Abrahamsson;Mattias Söderqvist

  • Affiliations:
  • SICS – Swedish Institute of Computer Science;SICS – Swedish Institute of Computer Science;SICS – Swedish Institute of Computer Science

  • Venue:
  • IPOM'05 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Operations and Management in IP-Based Networks
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Today, the main alternative for intra-domain traffic engineering in IP networks is to use different methods for setting the weights (and so decide upon the shortest-paths) in the routing protocols OSPF and IS-IS. In this paper we study how traffic engineering perform in real networks. We analyse different weight-setting methods and compare performance with the optimal solution given by a multi-commodity flow optimization problem. Further, we investigate their robustness in terms of how well they manage to cope with estimated traffic matrix data. For the evaluation we have access to network topology and traffic data from an operational IP network.