Network topology redesigns through a soft computing

  • Authors:
  • Sami J. Habib

  • Affiliations:
  • Kuwait University, Computer Engineering Department, Safat, Kuwait

  • Venue:
  • ACST'06 Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED international conference on Advances in computer science and technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a soft computing methodology that automatically redesigns a multilevel network topology. The network redesign problem is formulated as an optimization problem, subject to a set of design and performance constraints while minimizing the redesign cost. In this paper, we have used a uniform growth of the network load as the main factor for topology redesign; moreover, our methodology attempts to maintain as many as possible of the network devices within the original topology while satisfying the extra growth of the clients' loads. A soft computing is used to search the design space. The experimental results for a 3-level network redesign problem described here demonstrate how valuable with respect to redesign cost and time such a methodology in the capacity planning of enterprise networks, which is consisting of 65 client nodes.