Traffic control over overlayed networks

Program Code: 1643

Objectives: 

The emergence of Ipv6 allows a node to use multiple paths connecting itself to a destination to transfer data for high performance. The questions that one needs to consider are:

How to select paths dynamically that can maximize its performance?

How to distribute packets to each path that can balance the traffic on the available paths?

How avoid competition with other users (game theory in distributed control)?

How to predict traffic on each path/link (related to network tomography)

Relayer selection and functions

Interconnection between overlays

Whether the above steps will lead to a stable system?

We have some basic results in this direction, but a lot of them require further investigation.

Contact:

Dr Weiping Zhu w.zhu@adfa.edu.au