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Combining Multipath Routing and Congestion Control for Robustness
Overview Flexible routing schemes mitigate some of the problems associated with uncertain traffic patterns and workloads by making the exact location of capacity less important: if there is available capacity the routing scheme will find it. This paper proposes a combined multipath routing and congestion control architecture that can provide performance improvements to the end user and simplifies network dimensioning for operators. The paper describes a flow-level model, able to handle streaming and file transfer traffic, with stochastic arrivals, and look at a fluid limit. It describes a congestion controller and path selection algorithm that automatically balances traffic across the lowest cost paths, and the authors suggest ways in which just two paths may be used, with a random selection policy.
| Publisher | Microsoft | File Format | |
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| Date Published | February 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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