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Re: Dijkstra Simulator

  • From: Jim Boyle
  • Date: Thu Jun 11 09:30:21 1998

At 10:49 PM 4/5/98 -0400, Daniel O. Awduche wrote:
>The WANDL network planning and analysis software can be used
>for this purpose (and much more).
>
>Alternatively, you can trivially write an all "pairs shortest
>path" program, using, for example, the Floyd-Warshall dynamic 
>programming algorithm (See "Introduction to Algorithms," by
>Corman, Leiserson, and Rivest). The same result can be gotten
>by running Dijkstra's algorithm |V| times (once for each node), 
>where |V| is the cardinality of the set of nodes in your network 
>graph.

and ospf spec gives a step by step description - took me about 100 lines of
perl code in 90 minutes to get it working.

sorry for this blast from the past.

Jim

p.s. - how is that ip navigator treating you - is there any other than the
big C? (oops -that's little c, isn't it?).

>
>/Dan.
>
>Alan Hannan said:
>> 
>>   Could someone provide a reference for a Dijkstra simulator?
>> 
>>   Ideally this would take three sets of inputs (links, nodes,
>>   metrics) and produce edge-pair traffic flows.
>> 
>>   Any suggestions appreciated, especially for GPL stuff that has
>>   code.
>> 
>>   -a
>
>