Macro-routing: a new hierarchical routing protocol
Dragos, Sanda-Maria and Collier, Martin
(2004)
Macro-routing: a new hierarchical routing protocol.
In: GLOBECOM 2004 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 29 November - 3 December 2004, Dallas, Texas, USA.
ISBN 0-7803-8794-5
In a continually evolving Internet, tools such as quality of service routing must be used in order to accommodate user demands. QoS routing raises scalability issues within very large networks, which can he avoided by using hierarchical routing strategies. However, such strategies can lead to inaccurate path selection due to the aggregation process. To avoid such problems, we propose a hierarchical routing protocol, called macro-routing, which can distribute the route computation more efficiently throughout the network using mobile agents. It processes more detailed information than conventional hierarchical routing protocols, so is more likely to find the best path between source and destination. Also, by using mobile agents, more than one available path can be found. This provides a fast recovery mechanism, where no protocol restart is needed in a failure situation.
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Item Type:
Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:
Conference
Refereed:
Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:
mobile agents; quality of service; routing protocols; telecommunication computing;