A scalable algorithm for link-state QoS-based routing with three metrics
Luís Henrique M. K. Costa, Serge Fdida, Otto Carlos M. B. Duarte · 2002
Quality of service (QoS) based routing provides QoS guarantees to multimedia applications and an efficient utilization of the network resources. Nevertheless, QoS routing is likely to be a costly process that does not scale when the number of nodes increases. Thus, the routing algorithm must be simple. This paper proposes and analyses the performance of a link-state QoS routing algorithm that takes into account three metrics: propagation delay, available bandwidth, and loss probability. A heuristic based on the residual loss probability and metric-combination is used to turn the algorithm scalable and solvable in polynomial time. The simulation results show that our algorithm is a promising solution to construct paths constrained on three metrics.