Authors: János Tapolcai
Publish Date: 2012/02/25
Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 723-730
Abstract
Providing fully distributed fault tolerant hopbyhop routing is one of the key challenges for intradomain IP networks This can be achieved by storing two nexthops for each destination node in the forwarding table of the routers and the packets are forwarded to primary nexthop PNH unless PNH is unreachable and secondary nexthop SNH is used instead We follow the architecture by Kwong et al in On the feasibility and efficacy of protection routing in IP networks University of Pennsylvania 2010 where the routing tables are configured in a centralized way while the forwarding and failure recovery is in a fully distributed way without relying on any encapsulation and signaling mechanisms for failure notification to meet the standard IP forwarding paradigm A network is protected if no single link of node failure results in forwarding loops Kwong et al On the feasibility and efficacy of protection routing in IP networks University of Pennsylvania 2010 conjectured that network node connectivity is not sufficient for a network to be protectable In this paper we show that this conjecture is in contradiction with a conjuncture by Hasunuma Discrete Math 2341–3149–157 2001 in GraphTheoretic Concepts in Computer Science Springer Berlin pp 235–245 2002 and show that every four connected maximal planar graph and every underlying graph of a 2connected line digraph has feasible protection routing
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