Paper Info
Title
A Closed-Loop Control Traffic Engineering System for the Dynamic Load Balancing of Inter-AS Traffic
Abstract
Inter-AS outbound traffic engineering (TE) is a set of techniques for controlling inter-AS traffic exiting an autonomous system (AS) by assigning the traffic to the best egress points (i.e. routers or links) from which the traffic is forwarded to adjacent ASes towards the destinations. In practice, changing network conditions such as inter-AS traffic demand variation, link failures and inter-AS routing changes occur dynamically. These changes can make fixed outbound TE solutions inadequate and may subsequently cause inter-AS links to become congested. In order to overcome this problem, we propose the deployment of a closed-loop control traffic engineering system that makes outbound traffic robust to inter-AS link failures and adaptive to changing network conditions. The objective is to keep the inter-AS link utilization balanced under unexpected events while reducing service disruptions and reconfiguration overheads. Our evaluation results show that the proposed system can successfully achieve better load balancing with less service disruption and re-configuration overhead in comparison to alternative approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s10922-009-9142-4
J. Network Syst. Manage.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Traffic engineering,Load balancing,Inter-domain traffic,Closed-loop control system
Traffic generation model,Computer science,Internet traffic engineering,Floating car data,Computer network,InSync adaptive traffic control system,Traffic shaping,Traffic engineering,Traffic policing,Network traffic simulation,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
4
1064-7570
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
17
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mina Amin1163.15
Kin-Hon Ho27410.24
George Pavlou31903157.00
Michael Howarth414810.82