Network routing

Network routing

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Article ID: iaor1995710
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 337
Issue: 1647
Start Page Number: 343
End Page Number: 367
Publication Date: Dec 1991
Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series A
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How should flows through a network be organized, so that the network responds sensibly to failures and overloads? The question is currently of considerable technological importance in connection with the development of computer and telecommunication networks, while in various other forms it has a long history in the fields of physics and economics. In all of these areas there is interest in how simple, local rules, often involving random actions, can produce coherent and purposeful behaviour at the macroscopic level. This paper describes some examples from these various fields, and indicates how analogies with fundamental concepts such as energy and price can provide powerful insights into the design of routing schemes for communication networks.

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