A simple adaptive routing scheme for congestion control in ShuffleNet multihop lightwave networks

The authors describe a simple adaptive routing scheme for datagram (connectionless) and virtual circuit (connection-oriented) transmission that relieves congestion resulting from nonuniform traffic patterns and network failures. The authors describe a fixed-routing algorithm for dedicated channel ShuffleNets. Based on the fixed routing algorithm, an adaptive routing scheme for datagram transmission is presented followed by performance results for uniform and nonuniform traffic patterns and fault tolerance. The adaptive routing of datagrams uses only the local queue size information available at the network interface units (NIUs) and redistributes the load as congestion develops. Since datagrams are individually routed through the network, they may not arrive at their destination in the order they were generated and may need to be resequenced. The authors compute an upper estimate on the resequencing buffer size for stream traffic. A virtual circuit version of the adaptive routing algorithm eliminates the need for resequencing buffers