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MHND: Multi-Homing Network Design Model for Delay Sensitive Applications

Akio KAWABATA, Bijoy CHAND CHATTERJEE, Eiji OKI

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When mission-critical applications are provided over a network, high availability is required in addition to a low delay. This paper proposes a multi-homing network design model, named MHND, that achieves low delay, high availability, and the order guarantee of events. MHND maintains the event occurrence order with a multi-homing configuration using conservative synchronization. We formulate MHND as an integer linear programming problem to minimize the delay. We prove that the distributed server allocation problem with MHND is NP-complete. Numerical results indicate that, as a multi-homing number, which is the number of servers to which each user belongs, increases, the availability increases while increasing the delay. Noteworthy, two or more multi-homing can achieve approximately an order of magnitude higher availability compared to that of conventional single-homing at the expense of a delay increase up to two times. By using MHND, flexible network design is achieved based on the acceptable delay in service and the required availability.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E106-B No.11 pp.1143-1153
Publication Date
2023/11/01
Publicized
2023/07/24
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2023EBP3046
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Network

Authors

Akio KAWABATA
  Toyohashi University of Technology
Bijoy CHAND CHATTERJEE
  South Asian University
Eiji OKI
  Kyoto University

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