Maximum Load Balancing with Optimized Link Metrics

Touraj Shabanian, Massoud Reza Hashemi, Ahmad Askarian

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2012.512B003                

Abstract

Traffic engineering helps to use network resources more efficiently. Network operators use TE to obtain different objectives such as load balancing, congestion avoidance and average delay reduction. Plane IP routing protocols such as OSPF, a popular intradomain routing protocol, are believed to be insufficient for TE. OSPF is based on the shortest path algorithm in which link weights are usually static value without considering network load. They can be set using the inverse proportional bandwidth capacity or certain value. However, Optimization theory helps network researchers and operators to analyze the network behavior more precisely. It is not a practical approach can be implemented in traditional protocol .This paper proposes that to address the feasibility requirements, a weight set can be extracted from optimization problem use as a link metric in OSPF. We show the routes that selected in OSPF with these metric distribute the traffic more close to optimal situation than routes from OSPF with default metric.

Keywords

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Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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