To be effective, applications such as streaming multimedia require both a more stable and more reliable service than the default best effort service from the underlying computer network. To guarantee steady data transmission despite the unpredictability of the network, a single reserved path for each traffic flow is used. However, a single dedicated path suffers from single link failures. To allow for continuous service inexpensively, unreserved backup paths are used in this thesis. While there are no wasted resources using unreserved backup paths, recovery from a failure may not be perfect. Thus, a goal for this approach is to design algorithms that compute backup paths to mask the failure for all traffic, and failing that, to maximize the number of flows that can be unaffected by the failure. Although algorithms are carefully designed with the goal to provide perfect recovery, when using only unreserved backup paths, re-routing of all affected flows, at the same service quality as before the failure, may not be possible under some conditions, particularly when the network was already fully loaded prior to the failure. Alternate strategies that trade off service quality for continuous traffic flow to minimize the effects of the failure on traffic should be considered. In addition, the actual backup path calculation can be problematic because finding backup paths that can provide good service often requires a large amount of information regarding the traffic present in the network, so much that the overhead can be prohibitive. Thus, algorithms are developed with trade-offs between good performance and communication overhead. In this thesis, a family of algorithms is designed such that as a whole, inexpensive, scalable, and effective performance can be obtained after a failure. Simulations are done to study the trade-offs between performance and scalability and between soft and hard service guarantees. Simulation results show that some algorithms in this thesis yield competitive or better performance even at lower overhead. The more reliable service provided by unreserved backup paths allows for better performance by current applications inexpensively, and provides the groundwork to expand the computer network for future services and applications.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/1412 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Chen, Ing-Wher |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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