Article ID: | iaor20043219 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 125 |
End Page Number: | 140 |
Publication Date: | May 2004 |
Journal: | Networks |
Authors: | Richards Barry, Ouaja Wided |
Keywords: | programming: integer, programming: transportation |
Traffic engineering seeks to route traffic demands in data networks to guarantee certain quality of service (QoS) parameters while efficiently utilizing network resources. MPLS, for example, provides the essential capabilities to achieve this with explicit routing. Finding paths for all the demands which meet QoS requirements is a nontrivial task. Indeed, guaranteeing just bandwidth is known to be