Global Traffic Grooming based on Cooperation: An Implementation over NS

Traffic grooming received a lot of attentions in last few years and can be considered under two views, locally for each separate grooming entity and globally in a group of grooming entities. However, optimization of traffic grooming at each separate grooming entity sometime doesn’t bring about an optimal solution for global traffic grooming, if not to say a bad one. Thus, it is necessary to exploit the last view. In an early paper, we proposed an application of the game theory to analyze the global traffic grooming based on cooperation. In this paper, we present an implementation of this model. The analyses on simulation results will prove the advantages of global traffic grooming based on cooperation, in comparison without cooperation.