A MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVES EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE TO INTERDOMAIN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

Abstract

We present an application of multiple-objectives evolutionary optimisation to the problem of engineering the distribution of the interdomain traffic in the internet. We show that this practical problem requires such a heuristic due to the potentially conflicting nature of traffic-engineering objectives. Furthermore, having to work on the parameter's space (BGP routing) of the real problem makes such techniques as evolutionary optimisation very easy to use. We show the successful application of our algorithm to two practically relevant problems in interdomain traffic engineering.