Network Routing

M. Faloutsos

• Experiments with real CISCO routers
• Setup and configuration
• Execution of simple experiments
• Performance measurement
• Simulations with BGP SSFNet, DaSSFNet
• Evaluate finetune BGp performance
• Evaluate convergence of BGP
• Identify pathological cases
• Suggested reading: Premore, Griffin, ICNP 2001 paper
• Analyze and characterize the BGP graph ("directed")
• Identify proeprties - datamine for patterns and abnormalities
  
• Generate realistic BGP graphs
  
• Suggested reading:
• On the Hierarchical Structure of the Logical Internet Graph, ,
  Z. Ge, D.R. Figueiredo, S. Jaiwal, L.Gao
  ITCOM'2001.
  
• Lixin Gao, "On Inferring Autonomous System Relationships in the Internet "
  
• Global Internet Symposium in Globecom 2001
• V. Krishnamurhty et al, Sampling Internet Topologies: How Small Can We Go? International Conference of Internet Computing Proceedings, June 2003  (talk to Vaishnavi for more info: www.cs.ucr.edu/~vkrish/)
  
• Analyze and model real BGP updates
• Suggested reading: Realistic BGP   Traffic for Test Labs. Olaf Maennel   and Anja Feldmann
  
• http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2002/papers/bgplab.html
• Siganos and Faloutsos. "BGP Routing: A study at Large Time Scale"
• Analyze and model real BGP tables
• Find patterns regularities etc
• Suggested: Felmsann's paper above.
  
• Slowing Routing Table Growth by Filtering Based on Address Allocation Policies (2001)  
  Steve Bellovin, Randy Bush, Timothy G. Griffin, Jennifer Rexford
  

• The idea and feasibility of  dynamic addresses in ad hoc
• Examine the behavior of dynamic addressing: how often do address need to change etc
• Propose solutions for making dyn addressing feasible
• Theoretical analysis and bounds
  
• Suggested reading: "Scalable Ad Hoc Routing: The Case for Dynamic Addressing "
  J. Eriksson, M. Faloutsos, S. V. Krishnamurthy
  IEEE INFOCOM 2004, Hong Kong, 2004.
  
• Use of hiearchical cluster-based routing in ad hoc networks
• Use of multiple frequencies for routing in ad hoc networks
• Can this increase the performance
• How can I allocate frequencies to nodes or packets
• Survey on ad hoc routing protocols
  
• Multicast and broadcast routing in ad hoc
• Suggested reading: "Power Adaptive Broadcasting with Local Information in Ad Hoc Networks"
  Chen, X., Faloutsos, M., and Krishnamurthy S.V.,
  IEEE ICNP 2003
  
• S.Y.Ni, Y.C.Tseng, Y.S.Chen and J.P.Sheu, “The Broadcast
  Storm Problem in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network”, Proc. of ACM MOBICOM,
  1999.
  
  

• Introduction: "A survey on sensor networks" - IEEE Communications Magazine
  I.F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, E. Cayirci
• A good site for starting out:
  http://www.glue.umd.edu/~yychen/literature.html
• Efficient reporting - Data fusion
• Suggested reading: Yuan W., Krishnamurthy S.V ., and Tripathi, S.K.,  -- Synchronization of Multiple Levels of Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE GLOBECOM 2003

• The cost of application layer multicast routing
• Kou Markovsky and Berman, A Fast Algorithm for {S}teiner Trees",  ^M  
     "Acta Informatica, Springer-Verlag" volume 15, 1981
• Talk to me for more...