Amin, MinaMinaAminDr. HO Kin-Hon, RoyRoyDr. HO Kin-HonHowarth, MichaelMichaelHowarthPavlou, GeorgeGeorgePavlou2024-03-182024-03-182006Amin, M., Ho, K. H., Howarth, M., & Pavlou, G. (2006 May 16). Making outbound route selection robust to egress point failure. IFIP Networking Conference 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.97835403419259783540341932http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/9071Offline inter-domain outbound Traffic Engineering (TE) can be formulated as an optimization problem whose objective is to determine primary egress points for traffic exiting a domain. However, when egress point failures happen, congestion may occur if secondary egress points are not carefully determined. In this paper, we formulate a bi-level outbound TE problem in order to make outbound route selection robust to egress point failures. We propose a tabu search heuristic to solve the problem and compare the performance to three alternative approaches. Simulation results demonstrate that the tabu search heuristic achieves the best performance in terms of our optimization objectives and also keeps traffic disruption to a minimum.enFailure StateLink FailureTabu ListGood MoveTraffic EngineerConference Paper10.1007/11753810_20