Title
Optimal Routing for Delay-Sensitive Traffic in Overlay Networks.
Abstract
We design dynamic routing policies for an overlay network which meet delay requirements of real-time traffic being served on top of an underlying legacy network, where the overlay nodes do not know the underlay characteristics. We pose the problem as a constrained MDP, and show that when the underlay implements static policies such as FIFO with randomized routing, then a decentralized policy, that can be computed efficiently in a distributed fashion, is optimal. Our algorithm utilizes multi-timescale stochastic approximation techniques, and its convergence relies on the fact that the recursions asymptotically track a nonlinear differential equation, namely the replicator equation. Extensive simulations show that the proposed policy indeed outperforms the existing policies.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Networking and Internet Architecture
Multipath routing,Link-state routing protocol,Dynamic Source Routing,Computer science,Hierarchical routing,Policy-based routing,Static routing,Overlay network,Routing protocol,Distributed computing
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1703.07419
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rahul Singh15411.60
Eytan Modiano23714314.44