Flow Trees: A Lower Bound Computation Tool with Applications to Rearrangeable Multihop Lightwave Network Optimization
Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: This paper presents a new method for computing the lower bounds for multihop network design problems which is particularly well suited to optical networks. More specifically, given N stations each with d transceivers and pairwise average traffic values of the stations, the method provides a lower bound for the combined problem of finding optimum (i) allocation of wavelengths to the stations to determine a configuration, and (ii) routing of the traffic on this configuration while minimizing congestion – defined as the maximum flow assigned on any link. The lower bounds can be computed in time polynomial in the network size. Consequently, the results in this work yield a tool which can be used in (i) evaluating the quality of heuristic design algorithms, and (ii) determining a termination criteria during minimization. The lower bound computation is based on first building flow trees to find a lower bound on the total flow, and then distributing the total flow over the links to minimize the congestion.
Source: Journal of High Speed Networks
Authors: Bülent Yener, Terrance E. Boult
Institution: Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1506463944