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Fault-Tolerant Routing: A Genetic Algorithm and CJC
Arjun RaoCS 717
November 18, 2004
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Next Paper
• [1] Loh, Peter K.K., “Artificial Intelligence Search Techniques as Fault-Tolerant Routing Strategies”
• [2] Loh, Shaw., “A Genetic-Based Fault-Tolerant Routing Strategy for Multiprocessor Networks”
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Our Little Problem…
• AI search techniques topology- and fault-type independent…
• …but non-minimal routes utilized
• Follow-up work shows how genetic algorithms (combined with heuristics) can find minimal routes in presence of network faults
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Genetic Algorithms: Overview• Optimization strategy• Population of potential solutions evolve over
series of generations• Each element of population is chromosome;
each unit of chromosome is gene• Chromosomes undergo crossover and
mutation• Most fit chromosomes selected for next
generation, based upon fitness function
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Abstract Model• Same as before (including definitions of S
and G)
• Pure abstraction suffers from same caveats as before
• Basic idea: Instead of AI search for adaptive route, optimize over population of routes to find best
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Message Packets
• Simplified version:
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Chromosome
• Route Chromosome• Node on route Gene in chromosome
• Length of route Size of chromosome– Chromosome size directly reflects routing
performance!
• Distance traversed basis of fitness
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Population Creation
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Mutation and Crossover
• Mutation: Swap and/or shift• Normal crossover destroys routes, messes
with source and destination; problem w/ different lengths– Use one-point random crossover
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Fitness Function
• F = (Dmax – Droute) / Dmax + – Dmax: Maximum distance between source and
destination– Droute: Distance traveled by specific route : Predefined value to ensure non-zero fitness
• Higher value More fit
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Selection Scheme• Roulette Wheel
– Sum of fitness values * random value from [0,1]– Select chromosomes until fitness sum greater than product
• Tournament Selection– Most fit chromosomes selected
• Stochastic Remainder– Probabilities used to select route
• Which scheme has best performance selecting optimal route?
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Reroute
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Genetic Hybrid Algorithm
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Performance Testing
• RW, TS, SR tested in concert with RR and HCR (previous algorithm was for RR)
• 25-node mesh network• Varying fault percentages• Ten tests, each over 20 generations• Variations in mutation and crossover rates
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Performance Testing (cont.)
• Randomness of RR bad for rerouting• Unsuccessful routes increase with number of
generations
• SR + HCR performed best (prevented premature convergence, maintained good diversity)
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Performance Testing (cont.)
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Comparison With AI-only Strategies
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Next (and Final) Paper
• [3] Loh, Schröder, Hsu., “Fault-Tolerant Routing on Complete Josephus Cubes” (not AI/GA-related but interesting nevertheless)
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What is a Josephus Cube?
• New network topology– Better embedding, communications performance
than hypercube topologies• Can be used for processors, node clusters w/
optical channel architectures– In clusters, fault tolerance sacrificed for scalability– Symmetry (which is good for routing) somewhat
sacrificed as well
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Complete Josephus Cube (CJC)• Augmented (i.e. more links) Josephus Cube• Better fault-tolerance• Routing efficiency maintained!• Properties
– Uniform node degree of log2N + 2– N = 2r, r is order of network– Smaller diameter– Better symmetry– Guaranteed message delivery (w/ up to r + 1 faults)– No deadlocks/livelocks
• We examine CJC as node cluster topology
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Defining the CJC
• CJC(N) is an undirected graph G = (V, E)
• Nodes labeled using function J:– J(1) = 1– J(2i) = 2J(i) – 1, i 1– J(2i + 1) = 2J(i) + 1, i 1
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Defining the CJC (cont.)
• V = {u | J(2r) u J(2r + 1 – 1)}• Three types of edges: H, J, C
– E = EH EJ EC
• (x,y) EH iff H(x,y) = 1, where H is the Hamming distance
• (x,y) EJ iff y = x XOR 6
• (x,y) EC iff y = (x), where finds 2’s complement
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Example: CJC(8), r = 3
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Example: CJC(16), r = 4
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Data Vectors
• Route vector Rv(u) = (Tr+1Tr…T1T0)– Information on paths already traversed– Tr+1 = 1 if |u v| > CEIL(r / 2) else 0
– Tr = 1 if v = u(J), where u(J) is 2’s complement of lowest order bits
– Tk = (uk+1 vk+1), 0 k < r
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Data Vectors (cont.)
• Input link vector Iv(w) = (Lr+1Lr…L1L0)– Li = 0 if message arrives on link i else 1
• Fault status vector Fv(w) = (Sr+1Sr…S1S0)– Sj = 0 if node on link j or link j itself faulty else 1
• Navigation vector Nv(u) = Rv(u) Iv(u) Fv(w) – Designates optimal (or best-possible) paths from
current node
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CJC-FTROUTE() Algorithm1) Extract route vector from packet header2) Update current node’s fault status vector3) If route vector all 0’s, destination reached4) (Re)Initialize input link vector5) Compute navigation vector Nv(u)6) If enabled C link not faulty, set Rv
r+1(u) to 0, take 2’s complement of Rv(u), and route packet
7) Else, do the same with the J link (link r), except complement Rv
0(u) and Rv1(u) only
8) If both C and J links faulty and/or not enabled, find an H link for routing (or misrouting), set Rv
r+1(u) and Rvr(u) to 0, and
either route or discard
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Example 1: CJC(16)
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Example 2: CJC(16)
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Routing With Bounded Faults
• Theorem: Routing between a node pair (x, y) is optimal if FT < (r + 2) which includes faulty J and C incident links at x
• Proof: Let fi faults be encountered at node wi on path of length p. |R(wi)| - fi optimal links left to y; routing from wi to wi+1 optimal if link or |R(wi)| - fi > 0. Generalizing to whole path:
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Maximum Path Distance• Define FTR(u, v) = Set of edges of path from
u to v• Corollary: FTR guarantees path distance of
route upper-bounded by H(x, y) if FT < (r + 2)
• Corollary: FTR guarantees max distance r in order r cluster
• Proof: Follows from above corollary with H(x, y) r
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Final Set of Theorems
• For sub-optimal routing, FTR guarantees max path distance of 2r – H(x, y) + 2 only if FT < (r + 2) (including disabled C and J links at x)
• FTR guarantees deadlock-free routes• FTR guarantees livelock-free routes
– Proof of latter two utilizes notion of virtual networks in CJC