Path Algebra

The intense diversity of the Next Generation Networking environments creates a dire need for a modular framework that can integrate with metric-based optimization constructs, to tackle on-demand service-centric and user-centric resource allocation scenarios. Our research offers a new evaluation mechanism to successfully replace traditional path ranking and path selection techniques. By applying the fundamental monotonicity and isotonicity properties of the Path Algebra framework, it can always lead to valid and optimal results.