Title
Comparison of Single and Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Robust Link-State Routing.
Abstract
Traffic Engineering (TE) approaches are increasingly important in network management to allow an optimized configuration and resource allocation. In link-state routing, the task of setting appropriate weights to the links is both an important and a challenging optimization task. A number of different approaches has been put forward towards this aim, including the successful use of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). In this context, this work addresses the evaluation of three distinct EAs, a single and two multi-objective EAs, in two tasks related to weight setting optimization towards optimal intra-domain routing, knowing the network topology and aggregated traffic demands and seeking to minimize network congestion. In both tasks, the optimization considers scenarios where there is a dynamic alteration in the state of the system, in the first considering changes in the traffic demand matrices and in the latter considering the possibility of link failures. The methods will, thus, need to simultaneously optimize for both conditions, the normal and the altered one, following a preventive TE approach towards robust configurations. Since this can be formulated as a bi-objective function, the use of multi-objective EAs, such as SPEA2 and NSGA-II, came naturally, being those compared to a single-objective EA. The results show a remarkable behavior of NSGA-II in all proposed tasks scaling well for harder instances, and thus presenting itself as the most promising option for TE in these scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-15892-1_39
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms,Traffic engineering,NSGA,SPEA,Intra-domain routing,OSPF
Open Shortest Path First,Mathematical optimization,Link-state routing protocol,Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Network topology,Resource allocation,Artificial intelligence,Network congestion,Network management,Traffic engineering,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9019
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vitor Pereira194.78
Pedro Sousa217425.25
Paulo Cortez336021.71
Miguel Rio4214.69
Miguel Rocha551154.06