A SIMULATION STUDY OF MICROSCOPIC AMP BEHAVIOR

We have recently proposed Adaptive Multi-Path (AMP) routing as a novel algorithm for dynamic traffic engineering which provides significant per- formance improvements over competing routing strategies. In this paper we present microscopic investigations of the algorithm's stability. Using a novel dedicated fluid simulation framework, several experiments have been carried out using appropriate topologies and traffic patterns. Our results demonstrate the consistently stable behavior of AMP routing throughout a variety of simu- lation scenarios, and further underline its applicability to intra-domain traffic engineering.