With great speed come small buffers: Space-bandwidth tradeoffs for routing

Avery Miller, Boaz Patt-Shamir, Will Rosenbaum

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Abstract

We consider the Adversarial Queuing Theory (AQT) model, where packet arrivals are subject to a maximum average rate 0 1 and burstiness 0. In this model, we analyze the size of buffers required to avoid overflows in the basic case of a path. Our main results characterize the space required by the average rate and the number of distinct destinations: we show that O( d1/ + ) space suffice, where d is the number of distinct destinations and =1/ and we show that (1 over d1/ + ) space is necessary. For directed trees, we describe an algorithm whose buffer space requirement is at most 1 + d' + σ where d' is the maximum number of destinations on any root-leaf path.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPODC 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages117-126
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450362177
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jul 2019
Event38th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2019 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 29 Jul 20192 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Conference

Conference38th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2019
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period29/07/192/08/19

Keywords

  • Adversarial queuing theory
  • Buffer overflow
  • Directed paths
  • Directed trees
  • Multiple destinations
  • Packet forwarding
  • Packet networks

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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