Abstract

Maximizing call acceptance probability is one of the most important routing goals in high speed networks. In this report, we survey some of the existing important routing algorithms aiming at achieving a low call blocking rate for general topology networks. A new routing algorithm based on the shortest path algorithm and the competitive routing idea is also proposed in the paper. Extensive simulation experiments were performed to compare the performance of these algorithms. It is shown that the routing algorithms simply based on the routing idea in circuit-switched networks have satisfactory performance only at medium to high network loads. The shortest path algorithm performs well only at low network loads. The EXP algorithm based on the competitive and stochastic analysis can generally lead to low network blocking, but it has the undesirable restrictions of uniform link capacities and uniform call bandwidth requirements. Our proposed algorithm has a desirable low call blocking rate at any network loads.

Key words: routing, general topology network, call blocking rate


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