Robust routing made easy

Christoph Lenzen, Moti Medina

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Abstract

Designing routing schemes is a multidimensional and complex task that depends on the objective function, the computational model (centralized vs. distributed), and the amount of uncertainty (online vs. offline). We showcase simple and generic transformations that can be used as a blackbox to increase resilience against (independently distributed) faults. Given a network and a routing scheme, we determine a reinforced network and corresponding routing scheme that faithfully preserves the specification and behavior of the original scheme. We show that reasonably small constant overheads in terms of size of the new network compared to the old one are sufficient for substantially relaxing the reliability requirements on individual components. The main message in this paper is that the task of designing a robust routing scheme can be decoupled into (i) designing a routing scheme that meets the specification in a fault-free environment, (ii) ensuring that nodes correspond to fault-containment regions, i.e., fail (approximately) independently, and (iii) applying our transformation to obtain a reinforced network and a robust routing scheme that is fault-tolerant.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems - 19th International Symposium, SSS 2017, Proceedings
EditorsPhilippas Tsigas, Paul Spirakis
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages187-202
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783319690834
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2017 - Boston, United States
Duration: 5 Nov 20178 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10616 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period5/11/178/11/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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