An IP Fast Reroute Method against Multiple Node Failures

Abstract

Since network failures have a huge negative impact on our daily life, networks should be recovered from the failures as soon as possible. Although a lot of IP fast reroute methods have been proposed, most methods focus on multiple link failures or a single node failure. This paper proposes an IP fast reroute method which can reroute packets against multiple node failures. The paper is the first paper which deals with multiple node failures in the research area on IP fast reroute. The proposed method generates spanning trees to bypass the failures from a given network topology in network design stage, and reroutes a packet using one of the generated spanning trees every time the packet encounters a node failure in network operation stage. Numerical example shows that such spanning trees can be easily generated using our proposed method.