OSPF vs AntNet

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:31:47PM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> For networking geek, this is interesting information
> 
> Apparently, though OSPF in the most popular routing protocol, its
> performance is not the best.  AntNet is three times better at
> throughput and and at par with OSPF in latency
> 
> Unfortunately, AntNet was proposed in 1997 when OSPF had taken all the market
> 
> telecom.section.informs.org/conference06/16227.pdf
> 
> Have anyone heard of AntNet before?  Thought it was a very interesting concept

Interesting.  It seems so nondeterministic, but on the other hand, OSPF
being shortest path by design, will easily end up routing all traffic
through one link, if that is the shortest option, rather than using more
links if there is enough traffic to warrent it.  It appears AntNet will
change routes over time if traffic patterns change.

Of course quagga doesn't implement it (no idea if anyone does), so the
chances of seeing it in use are pretty slim.

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Len Sorensen
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