Summary
the 2014 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications
2014
Session Number:B1L-D
Session:
Number:B1L-D4
Optimizing Performance of Communication Networks: An Application of Network Science
Jiajing Wu, Chi K. Tse, Francis C.M. Lau,
pp.264-267
Publication Date:2014/9/14
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
In this paper we describe a method for optimising the performance of communication networks from a network science perspective. For efficient and reliable data transmission, the traffic load should be as uniformly distributed as possible in the network and the average distance travelled by the data should be short. With a fixed network topology, the traffic load distribution and the node usage probability are determined by the specific routing algorithm. In this paper we apply a simulated annealing algorithm to find the near-optimal configuration of routing paths, which effectively balances traffic loads and improves the overall traffic performance.