loading...
 This Article 
   
 Share 
   
 Bibliographic References 
   
 Add to: 
 
Digg
Furl
Spurl
Blink
Simpy
Google
Del.icio.us
Y!MyWeb
 
 Search 
   
19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'99)
Search Space Reduction in QoS Routing
Austin, Texas
May 31-June 04
ISBN: 0-7695-0222-9
Liang Guo, Northeastern University
Ibrahim Matta, Northeastern University
To provide real-time service, integrated networks require the underlying routing algorithm to be able to find low-cost paths that satisfy given Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. The problem of constrained shortest (least-cost) path routing is known to be NP-hard, and some heuristics have been proposed to find a near-optimal solution. However, these heuristics either impose relationships among the link metrics to reduce the complexity of the problem which may limit the general applicability of the heuristic, or are too costly in terms of execution time to be applicable to large networks. In this paper, we focus on solving the delay-constrained minimum-cost path problem, and present a fast algorithm to find a near-optimal solution. This algorithm, called DCCR (for Delay-Cost-Constrained Routing), is a variant of the k-shortest path algorithm. DCCR uses a new adaptive path weight function together with an additional constraint imposed on the path cost, to restrict the search space. Thus, DCCR can return a near-optimal solution in a very short time. Furthermore, we use the method proposed by Blokh and Gutin [1] to further reduce the search space by using a tighter bound on path cost. This makes our algorithm more accurate and even faster. We call this improved algorithm SSR+DCCR (for Search Space Reduction+DCCR). Through extensive simulations, we confirm that SSR+DCCR performs very well compared to the optimal but very expensive solution.
Index Terms:
QoS routing; constrained path optimization; simulation
Citation:
Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, "Search Space Reduction in QoS Routing," icdcs, pp.0142, 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'99), 1999
Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use.