HierTopo: Towards High-Performance and Efficient Topology Optimization for Dynamic Networks

Abstract

Dynamic networks have enabled dynamically adapting the network topology to meet the need of real-time traffic demands. However, due to the complexity of topology optimization, existing solutions suffer from a trade-off between performance and efficiency, which either have large optimality gaps or excessive optimization overhead. To break through this trade-off, our key observation is that we could offload the optimization procedure to every network node to handle the complexity. Thus, we propose HierTopo, a hierarchical topology optimization method for dynamic networks that achieves both high performance and efficiency. HierTopo firstly runs a local policy on each network node to aggregate network information into low-dimension features, then uses these features to make global topology decisions. Evaluation on real-world network traces shows that HierTopo outperforms the state-of-the-art solutions by 11.52-38.91% with only milliseconds of decision latency, and is also superior in generalization ability.

Jing Chen

Ph.D. of Computer Networking

My research interests include low-latency network transport, interactive video streaming and wireless networks.