Local Fast Rerouting with Low Congestion: A Randomized Approach

Local Fast Rerouting with Low Congestion: A Randomized Approach

Abstract

Most modern communication networks include fast rerouting mechanisms, implemented entirely in the data plane, to quickly recover connectivity after link failures. By relying on local failure information only, these data plane mechanisms provide very fast reaction times, but at the same time introduce an algorithmic challenge in case of multiple link failures: failover routes need to be robust to additional but locally unknown failures downstream. This paper presents local fast rerouting algorithms which not only provide a high degree of resilience against multiple link failures, but also ensure a low congestion on the resulting failover paths. We consider a randomized approach and focus on networks which are highly connected before the failures occur. Our main contribution are three simple algorithms which come with provable guarantees and provide interesting resilienceload tradeoffs, significantly outperforming any deterministic fast rerouting algorithm with high probability.

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Authors
  • Bankhamer, Gregor
  • Elsässer, Robert
  • Schmid, Stefan
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Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings (Paper)
Event Title
27th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)
Divisions
Communication Technologies
Subjects
Informatik Allgemeines
Event Location
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Event Type
Conference
Event Dates
October 7-10, 2019
Date
2019
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