Technical Report TR-2021-01

BibliographyFalk, Jonathan; Geppert, Heiko; Dürr, Frank; Bhowmik, Sukanya; Rothermel, Kurt: Dynamic QoS-Aware Traffic Planning for Time-Triggered Flows with Conflict Graphs.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Technical Report Computer Science No. 1.
23 pages, english.
CR-SchemaC.2 (Computer-Communication Networks)
Keywordstraffic planning; scheduling; routing; dynamic; conflict graph
Abstract

Many networked applications, e.g., in the domain of cyber-physical systems, require strict service guarantees, usually in the form of jitter and latency bounds, for time-triggered traffic flows. It is a notoriously hard problem to compute a network-wide traffic plan that satisfies these requirements, and dynamic changes in the flow set add even more challenges. Existing traffic-planning methods are ill-suited for dynamic scenarios because they either suffer from high computational cost, can result in low network utilization, or provide no explicit guarantees when transitioning to a new traffic plan that incorporates new flows.

Therefore, we present a novel approach for dynamic traffic planning of time-triggered flows. Our conflict-graph based modeling of the traffic planning problem allows to reconfigure active flows to increase the network utilization, while also providing per-flow QoS guarantees during the transition to the new traffic plan. Additionally, we introduce a novel heuristic for computing the new traffic plans. Evaluations of our prototypical implementation show that we can efficiently compute new traffic plans in scenarios with hundreds of active flows for a wide range of scenarios.

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Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Entry dateMay 5, 2021
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