Performance and stability bounds for dynamic networks

  • Authors:
  • Dimitrios Koukopoulos;Marios Mavronicolas;Paul Spirakis

  • Affiliations:
  • Research and Academic Computer Technology Institute, P.O. Box 1122, 261 10 Patras, Greece;Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus;Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Rion, 265 00 Patras, Greece & Research and Academic Computer Technology Institute, P.O. Box 1122, 261 10 Patras, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this work, we study the impact of dynamically changing link capacities on the delay bounds of LIS (Longest-In-System) and SIS (Shortest-In-System) protocols on specific networks (that can be modelled as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)) and stability bounds of greedy contention-resolution protocols running on arbitrary networks under the Adversarial Queueing Theory. Especially, we consider the model of dynamic capacities, where each link capacity may take on integer values from [1,C] with C1, under a (w,@r)-adversary. We show that the packet delay on DAGs for LIS is upper bounded by O(iw@rC) and lower bounded by @W(iw@rC) where i is the level of a node in a DAG (the length of the longest path leading to node v when nodes are ordered by the topological order induced by the graph). In a similar way, we show that the performance of SIS on DAGs is lower bounded by @W(iw@rC), while the existence of a polynomial upper bound for packet delay on DAGs when SIS is used for contention-resolution remains an open problem. We prove that every queueing network running a greedy contention-resolution protocol is stable for a rate not exceeding a particular stability threshold, depending on C and the length of the longest path in the network.