Online multi-path routing in a maze

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Rührup;Christian Schindelhauer

  • Affiliations:
  • Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Germany;Computer Networks and Telematics, University of Freiburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'06 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We consider the problem of route discovery in a mesh network with faulty nodes. The number and the positions of the faulty nodes are unknown. It is known that a flooding strategy like expanding ring search can route a message linear in the minimum number of steps d while it causes a traffic (i.e. the total number of messages) of ${\mathcal O}(d^2)$. For optimizing traffic a single-path strategy is optimal producing traffic ${\mathcal O}(d+p)$, where p is the number of nodes that are adjacent to faulty nodes. We present a deterministic multi-path online routing algorithm that delivers a message within ${\mathcal O}(d)$ time steps causing traffic ${\mathcal O}(d + p \log^2 d)$. This algorithm is asymptotically as fast as flooding and nearly traffic-optimal up to a polylogarithmic factor.