Stable routing under the Spanning Tree Protocol

Fabrizio Grandoni, Gaia Nicosia, Gianpaolo Oriolo, Laura Sanità

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Abstract

The Spanning Tree Protocol routes traffic on shortest path trees. If some edges fail, the traffic has to be rerouted consequently, setting up alternative trees. In this paper we design efficient algorithms to compute polynomial-size integer weights so as to enforce the following stability property: if q=O(1) edges fail, traffic demands that are not affected by the failures are not redirected. Stability is a goal pursued by network operators in order to minimize transmission delays due to the restoration process.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)399-404
Number of pages6
JournalOperations Research Letters
Volume38
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2010

Keywords

  • Randomized algorithms
  • Spanning Tree Protocol
  • Stable routing

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