Title
A Methodology to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Traffic Balancing Algorithms
Abstract
Traffic balancing algorithms represent a cost-effective alternative to balance traffic in high performance interconnection networks. The importance of these algorithms is increasing since most of the current network technologies for clusters are either based on source routing or use deterministic routing. In source-routed networks, the host is responsible for selecting the suitable path among the set of paths provided by the routing algorithm. The selection of an optimal path that maximizes the channel utilization is not trivial because of the huge amount of combinations. Traffic balancing algorithms are based on heuristics in order to find an optimal solution. In this paper, we propose a new methodology based on the use of metaheuristic algorithms to evaluate the effectiveness of traffic balancing algorithms. Preliminary results show that the set of paths provided by current traffic balancing algorithms are still far from an optimized solution. Thus, it is worth continuing to design more efficient traffic balancing algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/978-3-540-27866-5_118
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
source routing,cost effectiveness
Simulated annealing,Deterministic routing,Hill climbing,Computer science,Algorithm,Heuristics,Source routing,Deterministic system (philosophy),Virtual channel,Metaheuristic,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
3149
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. E. Villalobos100.34
J. L. Sánchez241.42
José A. Gámez364061.05
José Carlos Sancho438229.97
Antonio Robles548130.40