Prof. Funda Ergun
Department of EECS, Case School of Engineering
As the transmission needs of the users and the nature of the transmission media evolve, simple routing as exists in the Internet is not good enough for most purposes. We investigate the use of more intelligent routing so that application-specific needs of the users are satisfied. These needs may be in terms of delay, bandwidth, security, reliability, etc., and are specified by the user. These may be especially important and hard to satisfy when the user is very demanding and the transmission medium is heterogeneous. For instance, if the data is very large and security is critical, then routing in a medium where there are terrestrial, low orbit, as well as mobile links is very non-straightforward. We investigate methods of finding the best routes in the most efficient (both in terms of the computation and in terms of the network resources)way, and ways of incorporating these route-finding mechanisms into existing protocols such as MPLS.