Spanning tree method for link state aggregation in large communication networks

  • Authors:
  • W. C. Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • INFOCOM '95 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies (Vol. 1)-Volume - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

We consider a communication network in which dynamic routing is used for establishing connections that support information transfer between end-users. Link state information is exchanged and maintained up-to-date among network nodes for path computation and network resource allocation. When the population of users is large, the amount of link state information can be overwhelming. A common solution is to use a hierarchical structure. In this paper, we present a method for aggregating link state information in a hierarchical network. We assume that each link state parameter associated with a link is symmetrical in both directions of the link. The key idea for the method is to first reduce the original subnetwork topology to a full-mesh representation that consists of a logical link for each pair of border nodes in the subnetwork, and then encode the link state information associated with the full-mesh representation with an appropriate spanning tree.