Hi Dmitri,

I don't understand. Do you mean that this kind of greedy routing can
generate routing paths that satisfy all possible routing policies in TE, 
load balancing, etc.


Thanks

Yangyang

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dmitri Krioukov" <[email protected]>
To: "'Tony Li'" <[email protected]>
Cc: "'IRTF Routing RG'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: [rrg] Fwd: Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping


> thanks, sure, this subject is also in that other in-submission paper.
> in a nutshell: almost all greedy paths are policy-compliant paths!
> BUT: if we want to *actively* manage mapping as a function of
> policies, then it's currently impossible, although we have some
> ideas on how to achieve this..
> -- 
> dima.
> http://www.caida.org/~dima/
> 
> On Monday, September 13, 2010 3:24 PM, Tony Li wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dmitri,
>> 
>> Might I suggest that a discussion of transit policies might also be in order?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tony
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 13, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Dmitri Krioukov wrote:
>> 
>>> thanks much for you comments! indeed, topology dynamics is
>>> concern #1 in geometric routing. that's why we considered both
>>> short- and long-term dynamics, all in the paper. we emulate the
>>> former (by killing a percentage of links and nodes) and
>>> replayed the latter using the measurable history of internet
>>> evolution over the past few years with ASs and AS connections
>>> appearing, disappearing, etc., and the results are still very
>>> good, pretty much the same as for the static case. amazing,
>>> isn't it? i know it's hard to believe, and even we can't stop being
>>> surprised how well it works. we have another paper in submission,
>>> where we take space to explain why it works so well, and where
>>> we discuss some aspects of what it would take to implement
>>> and use this stuff in practice.
>>> --
>>> dima.
>>> http://www.caida.org/~dima/
>>> 
>>> On Friday, September 10, 2010 4:29 PM, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2010-09-09, Dmitri Krioukov wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> marshall, thanks for posting it here. i also thinks it's relevant :)
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks from me too, and it's certainly relevant. Still, it might not be
>>>> as good an idea as it sells itself as.
>>>> 
>>>> Geometric routing ideas have been around for quite a while now. They
>>>> certainly do this sort of thing within manets right now, because of the
>>>> spatial nature of a cloud of terminals/sensors. So in certain ways the
>>>> idea works well indeed.
>>>> 
>>>> I'd be the first to say that geometric routing is a swell and elegant
>>>> idea. Yet, it tends to have some inherent problems in the wired setting
>>>> where a) the topology and the geometry of the network isn't as static as
>>>> a cloud of 3D sensors would see, b) where we have to have static contact
>>>> points like DNS fully available at more or less fixed destination
>>>> addresses all of the time, to map from points of interest to
>>>> topological/geometrical addresses/locations, c) any static mapping like
>>>> the one proposed in the paper could *severely* undercut routing
>>>> efficiency as soon as someboby built a new undersea cable, which of
>>>> course severely changes the routing landscape in one fell swoop, and d)
>>>> when we then probably would go with an adaptive routing protocol, there
>>>> is a serious problem with asymmetric paths. That final problem doesn't
>>>> plague just Euclidean distance measures, but all of the metric ones as
>>>> well, including the hyperbolic.
>>>> 
>>>> As regards an adaptive geometric routing protocol, IRTF's ALTO group has
>>>> charted this stuff quite extensively already in the context of routing
>>>> within overlay networks. I suggest everybody look into that body if they
>>>> haven't already, if interested in geometric routing.
>>>> 
>>>> In my opinion, this particular article is a nice touch onto how best
>>>> parametrize network distance. Based on the article and the references, a
>>>> hyperbolic space might well provide us with a better parametrization of
>>>> distance in a scale-free network within the geometric routing paradigm.
>>>> But it won't solve the more fundamental problems which have stopped us
>>>> from adopting geometric routing in the past.
>>>> 
>>>> I'd say this body of work is a building block for further research, more
>>>> than the showstopper it'd like us to see itself as.
>>>> --
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