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This paper presents an asymptotically optimal online algorithm for compressing the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) of a router under a stream of updates (namely insert rule, delete rule, and change port of prefix). The objective of the algorithm is to dynamically aggregate forwarding rules into a smaller but equivalent set of rules while taking into account FIB update costs. The problem can be regarded as a new variant of ski rental on the FIB trie, and we prove that our deterministic algorithm is 3.603-competitive. Moreover, a lower bound of 1.636 is derived for any online algorithm.
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Bienkowski, M., Schmid, S. (2013). Competitive FIB Aggregation for Independent Prefixes: Online Ski Rental on the Trie. In: Moscibroda, T., Rescigno, A.A. (eds) Structural Information and Communication Complexity. SIROCCO 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8179. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03578-9_8
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