Greedy Dynamic Routing on Arrays

Author: Kahale N.   Leighton T.  

Publisher: Academic Press

ISSN: 0196-6774

Source: Journal of Algorithms, Vol.29, Iss.2, 1998-11, pp. : 390-410

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Abstract

We study the problem of dynamic routing on arrays. We prove that a large class of greedy algorithms perform very well on average. In the dynamic case, when the arrival rate of packets in an N × N array is at most 99% of network capacity, we establish an exponential bound on the tail of the delay distribution. Moreover, we show that in any window of T steps, the maximum queue-size is O(1 + log T/log N) with high probability. We extend these results to the case of bit-serial routing, and to the static case. We also calculate the exact value of the ergodic expected delay and queue-sizes under the farthest first protocol for the one-dimensional array, and for the ring when the arrivals are Poisson.

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