Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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449923 | Computer Communications | 2016 | 11 Pages |
Advance reservation services are being used by a range of applications to schedule connection bandwidth resources at future time intervals. To date many different algorithms have been developed to support various point-to-point reservation models. However, with expanding data distribution needs there is a need to schedule more complex service types to provide connectivity between multiple sites/locations. In particular, these offerings can help improve network resource utilization and help expand carrier service portfolios. Along these lines, this paper presents a novel, scalable optimization solution to schedule (virtual) overlay networks with fixed end-point nodes. An improved re-routing heuristic scheme is also proposed and analyzed for comparison purposes.