Assisted traffic engineering for minimalistic connected object networks

An apparatus, comprising:

• one or more network interfaces to communicate with and provide access between a computer network and a global computer network;
• a processor coupled to the network interfaces and adapted to execute one or more processes;
• and
• a memory configured to store a process executable by the processor, the process when executed operable to:
• determine a routing topology of the computer network;
• compute a traffic matrix for the computer network based on source and destination addresses of traffic traversing the apparatus, the traffic matrix providing an estimate for an amount of traffic on each link of the routing topology;
• determine one or more portions of the routing topology for which traffic engineering (TE) should be applied based on a threshold for traffic loads on the links;
• compute a TE solution;
• and
• notify one or more nodes in the computer network to change its respective current next-hop in the routing topology to an alternate next-hop based on the computed TE solution.

A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media having software encoded thereon, the software, when executed by a processor on a distributed intelligence agent (DIA) hosted on a border router that provides access for a computer network to a global computer network, operable to:

• determine a routing topology of the computer network;
• compute a traffic matrix for the computer network based on source and destination addresses of traffic traversing the DIA, the traffic matrix providing an estimate for an amount of traffic on each link of the routing topology;
• determine one or more portions of the routing topology for which traffic engineering (TE) should be applied based on a threshold for traffic loads on the links;
• compute a TE solution;
• and
• notify one or more nodes in the computer network to change its respective current next-hop in the routing topology to an alternate next-hop based on the computed TE solution.