A new routing control technique using active temporal data management

Determining the optimal path from source to destination as well as switching packets along the path is one of the main roles of a router in the Internet. Although there are vigorous researches so far related to various kinds of routing protocol, it still needs more sophisticated control techniques to resolve a routing loop problem. In this paper, we propose a new routing control technique using active temporal data management. It uses historical routing information as well as active message processing for efficient management so that it not only minimizes the size and the frequency of messages exchanged among routers, but also assures fast convergence to prevent the message loop. Also in terms of active real-time routing function, it determines the order of messages that happen periodically or aperiodically by means of computing their deadline time described in messages. With a simple example using the suggested technique, we analyze a logical performance evaluation by comparing it with some popular conventional routing protocols such as RIP and IGRP. Finally, concluding remarks and future works are discussed. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.