A New Routing Policy for Load Balancing in Communication Networks

  • Authors:
  • Martin Heusse;Yvon Kermarrec

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • AICCSA '01 Proceedings of the ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: We present in this paper a distributed path selection procedure which objective is to balance the load in the network. It is used here in a connection oriented framework and is based on selecting, at each hop along a partially computed path, any one of the available routes to the destination. As far as we know, our approach is the first distributed multi-path routing algorithm guaranteed to be loop-free after convergence, while at the same time basing its route computation on the actual load on the links of the network, as opposed to using some administrative, static, metrics.