We present and study the Static-Routing-Resiliency problem, motivated by routing on the Internet: Given a graph G, a unique destination vertex d, and an integer constant c>0, does there exist a static and destination-based routing scheme such that the correct delivery of packets from any source s to the destination d is guaranteed so long as (1) no more than c edges fail and (2) there exists a physical path from s to d? We embark upon a systematic exploration of this fundamental question in a variety of models (deterministic routing, randomized routing, with packet-duplication, with packet-header-rewriting) and present both positive and negative results that relate the edge-connectivity of a graph, i.e., the minimum number of edges whose deletion partitions G, to its resiliency.
@article{arxiv.1409.0034,
title = {Exploring the Limits of Static Failover Routing},
author = {Marco Chiesa and Andrei Gurtov and Aleksander Mądry and Slobodan Mitrović and Ilya Nikolaevkiy and Aurojit Panda and Michael Schapira and Scott Shenker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0034},
year = {2016}
}