Title
On the benefits of time-varying routing in realistic mobile backhaul networks
Abstract
Since traffic load in mobile networks typically changes significantly over time, time-varying routing, where routing changes in certain time intervals, seems an obvious solution. Yet multiple researchers have claimed independently in the past, that time-varying routing does not lead to worthwhile benefits given its overhead. In this paper, we study this issue in a systematic way. We argue that previous claims are due to focusing on too narrow optimization metrics and demonstrate the poor expressiveness of such metrics using real mobile backhaul topologies. We propose a novel traffic engineering metric, capacity variation, and on that basis, prove that time-varying routing can in fact have great benefits, particularly in terms of infrastructure CAPEX costs. A quantitative evaluation on the benefits is provided based on real mobile backhaul data from a European operators.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICCW.2015.7247155
2015 IEEE International Conference on Communication Workshop (ICCW)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
traffic engineering,capacity waste,time-varying routing,mobile backhaul
Conference
2164-7038
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Johannes Lessmann113414.73
Yong Cheng200.34
Stefan Pfeiffer300.34
Xavier Costa-Pérez444146.50