University of Houston
Department of Computer Science

In partial fullfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science


Joseph Chedraoui
will defend his thesis

Balanced Routing

Abstract

The Balanced Routing protocol has been defined as follows: When routing a sequence of data messages from a source to a destination, the protocol will uniformly distribute these messages over all k-monotonic paths from the source to the destination; i.e., over all paths whose distance to the destination never increases at each hop, and may remain constant in at most k hops. This protocol is a more general case of the Distance-Vector Routing protocol in which a sequence of data messages from a source to a destination would follow the same shortest-distance path from the source to the destination; in fact, by setting k to zero, the Balanced Routing protocol becomes the Distance-Vector protocol. Link-State protocols are another type of routing protocols that use shortest-distance paths. In this work, we define and implement the Balanced Routing protocol in a more comprehensive form, and we demonstrate how it performs better than existing Distance-Vector and Link-State Routing protocols.


Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999
Time: 2:30 PM
Place: 550-PGH


Faculty, students, and the general public are invited
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Ernst Leiss