How can multi-topology routing be used for intradomain traffic engineering?

Amund Kvalbein, Olav Lysne
2007 Proceedings of the 2007 SIGCOMM workshop on Internet network management - INM '07  
Multi-Topology routing allows each router in a network to maintain several valid routes to each destination. This increases the possibilities to spread traffic towards a destination over multiple paths with connectionless routing protocols like OSPF or IS-IS. In this paper, we report early ideas on how this can be utilized as a Traffic Engineering tool. We look at both offline and online approaches, and argue that a Multi-Topology based solution has advantages over previous solutions in both paradigms.
doi:10.1145/1321753.1321766 fatcat:ehri3bht4reizhysmygyreqw2m