Analysis of an Equal-Cost Multi-Path Algorithm

By C. Hopps. Request for Comments, 2000

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, methodology): “For instance, in the Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) protocol [125], every path is divided into equal-cost segments from source to destination.”
Software Defined Networking Architecture, Security and Energy Efficiency: A Survey (2017, methodology): “Hash based ECMP has been proposed in [139] as an Equal Cost Multi Path switch based load balancing scheme that directs the flow to multiple paths in the network to”
A scalable, commodity data center network architecture (2008, methodology): “Our proposed forwarding techniques are related to existing routing techniques such as OSPF2 and Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) [25, 30, 19].”
AuTO: scaling deep reinforcement learning for datacenter-scale automatic traffic optimization (2018, methodology): “For short ows, we leverage ECMP [30] for routing and load-balancing, which does not require centralized per-ow control, and DCTCP [3] for congestion control.”
Hedera: Dynamic Flow Scheduling for Data Center Networks (2010, methodology): “When a packet with multiple candidate paths arrives, it is forwarded on the one that corresponds to a hash of selected fields of that packet’s headers modulo the number of paths [21], splitting load to each subnet across multiple paths.”
SIFF: a stateless Internet flow filter to mitigate DDoS flooding attacks (2004, methodology): “by hashing the flow fields of the TCP/IP packet headers) as suggested by RFC2992 [ 20 ].”
Data Center Network Virtualization: A Survey (2013, methodology): “The main multipathing mechanisms used in data center networks are ECMP (Equal Cost Multipathing) [31] and VLB (Valiant Load Balancing) [32], [33].”