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Re: Intelligent IGP Link Costing Algorithms?

  • From: Bradley Dunn
  • Date: Fri Jan 11 03:29:42 2002 


An added twist appears to be that a full demand matrix
is difficult to build without large systems of flow
collection. I'm curious if the problem can easily be
approached without full insight in to this data.
(per link usage yes, but without end-to-end flows)




Methods for reducing the number of flow collection points are discussed in
this paper:

http://www.research.att.com/~jrex/papers/sigcomm00.pdf



Then there's always the MPLS as measurement platform approach. Set up a
mesh of LSPs and you have edge-to-edge (or perhaps POP-to-POP to reduce the
number of LSPs) traffic demands. Less ambitious variations on this can be
used to classify limited amounts of traffic for tactical TE.



Something like Juniper's DCU might provide enough info, if 16 buckets is
granular enough.




I've seen a few modeling applications, but nothing that
attempts to solve the general optimization problem.




There have been a couple of interesting papers on the topic recently. See,
for example, work by Thorup et. al. and Ben-Ameur et. al. I'm not aware of
released code that actually implements these papers, though.



Bradley