Abstract. As a distributed link state protocol, OSPF shows poor scalability when dealing with intra-domain routing in large networks. In this paper we present a new routing scheme called Virtual Area Routing (VAR) aimed to overcome the scalability problems of OSPF. The control plane is separated from data plane and is undertaken by dedicated elements in VAR. We show that VAR can simplify network configuration and management as well as avoid unnecessary route computation. Finally we conduct experiments in real topology and the result shows VAR can reduce control overhead and improve network performance.

TCP protocol has an awful performance in the wireless network because of the instability, high BER and long RTT of the wireless link. How to make wireless transmission more reliable and efficient has become a hot topic among relative researches. TCP/NC is a recently proposed protocol based on network coding and capable of achieving much higher throughput than TCP over lossy wireless Links. In this paper, network coding and TCP/NC are outlined firstly. And then simulation realization of TCP/NC protocol in OMNET++ is described. The performance evaluation of TCP/NC is conducted in OMNET++. The results show that TCP/NC offers significant better performance than TCP without affecting the fairness of data flow.

Hot-potato routing is commonly used to break tie among multiple equally-good exit points associating with inter-domain BGP routes. However, hot-potato routing only takes the network control plane into consideration, where it provides the routers the possibility of enabling early exit of traffic using barely protocol-related information of IGP distance. In this paper, we argue that egress selection of inter-domain routing should pay more attention to traffic forwarding, because the large traffic migration caused by egress change, although not quite often, can degrade the network performance or even make the network crash. We propose Egress Selection based on Traffic Migration Prediction (ES-TMP). We use traffic demand to predict the traffic migration, which is used as important criteria for egress selection. If the volume of traffic migration is large, ES-TMP keeps the egress unchanged. Otherwise, the small traffic migration enables the routers use the closest egress without apparent influence on network performance. ES-TMP can either be implemented with standard BGP protocol or by dedicated servers to perform global routing optimization.