COPE: traffic engineering in dynamic networks

  • Authors:
  • Hao Wang;Haiyong Xie;Lili Qiu;Yang Richard Yang;Yin Zhang;Albert Greenberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Yale University;Yale University;University of Texas at Austin;Yale University;University of Texas at Austin;AT&T Labs - Research

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Traffic engineering plays a critical role in determining the performance and reliability of a network. A major challenge in traffic engineering is how to cope with dynamic and unpredictable changes in traffic demand. In this paper, we propose COPE, a class of traffic engineering algorithms that optimize for the expected scenarios while providing a worst-case guarantee for unexpected scenarios. Using extensive evaluations based on real topologies and traffic traces, we show that COPE can achieve efficient resource utilization and avoid network congestion in a wide variety of scenarios.