A protection routing with secure mechanism in Möbius cubes

Abstract The protection routing uses the multi-paths technique for integrating route discovery and route maintenance mechanisms in a network, and thus it can tolerate the failure of one component (including a node or a link). Tapolcai (2013) proposed a method showing that a network possessing two completely independent spanning trees (CISTs for short) suffices to configure a protection routing. However, it is well-known that the problem of determining whether there exist two CISTs in a graph (or network) is NP-complete. In this paper, we extend Tapolcai’s method such that the protection routing is configured by a combination of multiple CISTs. The first application of such an extension is that it can be used to deal with the problem of security in transmission, which we call the secure-protection routing scheme (SPR-scheme for short). Thus, a network transmission using the SPR-scheme ensures that no node other than the destination can receive the complete message. Moreover, we show that if a message M is transmitted in a network G using the SPR-scheme configured by a combination of n CISTs, then each intermediate node of G can receive a maximum of 2 ∕ n ratio of M . From a similar idea of the extension, another application is the so-called multiple-protection routing scheme (MPR-scheme for short) which can be used to increase the capability of fault-tolerance. For assessing the performance of routing using MPR-scheme, we first propose a construction of three CISTs in the two types of Mobius cubes, which are hypercube-variant networks and are superior to hypercubes due to having a smaller diameter. For the n -dimensional Mobius cube, the diameters of CISTs we constructed are at most 14 when n = 6 and at most 2 n + 1 when n ⩾ 7 . So, we configure the desired protection routing in the Mobius cubes via the three CISTs. Then, we provide simulation results to experimentally evaluate the performance of the newly proposed MPR-scheme in the n -dimensional Mobius cubes for 6 ⩽ n ⩽ 10 . As an important point, our results show that the adoption of routing using MPR-scheme will result in a significant slowdown in the transmission failure rate.