In recent years, on-demand routing protocols have attained more attention in mobile ad hoc networks as compared to other routing schemes due to their abilities and efficiency. There exist many ondemand routing protocols for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETS). Most of the protocols, however, use a single route and do not utilize multiple alternate paths. Multi path routing allows the establishment ...

In computer networks (and, say, transportation networks), we can consider the situation where each user has its own routing decision so as to minimize noncooperatively the expected passage time of its packet/job given the routing decisions of other users. Intuitively, it is anticipated that adding connections to such a noncooperative network may bring benefits at least to some users. The Braess...

The growth in wireless communication technologies has resulted in a considerable amount of attention given to mobile adhoc networks. All mobile hosts in an adhoc network are embedded with packet forwarding capabilities. It is decentralized and is independent of infrastructure. Since mobile hosts in an adhoc network usually move freely, the topology of the network changes dynamically and disconn...

We consider the problem of load-balanced routing, where a dense network is modelled by a continuous square region and origin and destination nodes correspond to pairs of points in that region. The objective is to define a routing policy that assigns a continuous path to each origin-destination pair while minimizing the traffic, or load, passing through any single point. While the average load i...

Load sharing on the transport layer of the OSI reference model is an important topic in the IETF standardization. This approach is also supported by the industry to optimize the use of the resources in a network like the Internet. After many trials, two basic sets of mechanisms and functionalities on the transport layer have been proposed by the IETF to achieve load sharing. These basic sets ex...


 Modern virtual machine (VM) management software includes components that enable consolidation of VMs for power savings or load-balancing for performance. While the existing literature provides various methods for computing a better load-balanced, or consolidated goal state, it fails to adequately suggest the best path from the system's current state to the desired goal allocation. This paper ...