Policy-Driven Reconfiguration Incorporating Multi-objective Optimization for Performance Management in a Ship Backbone Network

The ship backbone network considering the only current traffic demand may lead to the costly disruption of traffic routing to adapt a new traffic demand change because it is independent of the next traffic demand change. The proposed reconfiguration technique is to minimize costly changes of forwarding paths in terms of network cost and minimize the average hop distance of traffic in terms of network performance simultaneously. A case study based on simulation experiments is conducted to illustrate the application and efficiency of the proposed technique.