Implementation and Experimental Evaluation of On-Line Simulation Server for OSPF-TE

Abstract

As the amount of traffic transferee! on the Internet are increasing, dynamic traffic engineering (TE) becomes important to avoid link congestion. In open shortest path fast(OSPF)-based networks, link costs are statically set according to its long-term utilization for reducing traffic on some congested nodes, hence temporary performance degradation may occur due to short-term traffic fluctuation. For dynamic IE on OSPF-based networks, measurement of the utilization of links / nodes, inferring the set of link costs for improving transmission behavior and setting the cost set to routers are necessary and so-called on-line simulation (OLS) system can operate these functions autonomously and periodically. In this paper, we construct the server prototype in OLS system, and evaluate its scalability and control performance in our testbed network. Experimental results show that the server succeeds in providing low-cost network management and real-time control even if there is the large amount of traffic on the network. Furthermore, the total throughput over the network was greatly improved by the OLS.