Experimental evaluation on optimality of multiagent-based backup VP reservation method

Author

Ohta, Tomoyuki ; Inoue, Shinji ; Kakuda, Yoshiaki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Hiroshima City Univ., Japan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

110

Lastpage

115

Abstract

In order to enhance the reliability of ATM networks, recently (Y. Kakuda, 1998), the virtual path (VP) reservation method using multiple agents (MA) has been proposed. In this MA method, given a primary VP and multiple backup VP candidates between each source node/destination node pair, then for each such pair, a backup VP is selected from the given multiple backup VP candidates, and a primary VP and a backup VP are reserved so that, when some nodes and links in the primary VPs fail, the primary VPs are able to be changed to the corresponding backup VPs rapidly. This paper describes an experimental evaluation of the MA method with respect to optimality. The experimental results show that the MA method has good optimality, along with an increase in the number of backup VP candidates

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; fault tolerance; multi-agent systems; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network routing; ATM network reliability; backup virtual path candidates; link failure; multi-agent-based virtual path reservation method; node failure; optimality; primary virtual path; source node/destination node pairs; Bandwidth; Computer network reliability; Computer networks; Reliability engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6575-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWADS.2000.880895

Filename

880895