[Nets-seminars] Talk today 16:00 GS/302 Christopher Pluntke

[Richard G. Clegg]

Valiant load-balancing and a glimpse beyond

Core networks have been working on the same principles for decades without 
major modifications. Recent research developments suggest a significant 
change  in the way in which backbone routing should work: Load-balancing 
traffic across many backbone routers using randomised algorithms has been 
shown to be efficiently able to handle highly variable traffic where 
traditional routing  schemes cannot compete. The first part of the talk 
will explore novel, randomised load-balancing algorithms which yield better 
performance in terms of delay and stability than previously known 
approaches. The second part will give a first insight into the performance 
of randomised load-balancing in practice.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/