An important requirement of a robust traffic engineering solution is insensitivity to changes, be they in the form of traffic
fluctuations or changes in the network topology because of link failures. In this paper we focus on developing a fast and
effective technique to compute traffic engineering solutions for Interior Gateway Protocol (IGPs) environments that are robust
to link failures in the logical topology. The routing and packet forwarding decisions for IGPs is primarily governed by link
weights. Our focus is on computing a single set of link weights for a traffic engineering instance that performs well over all single logical link failures. Such types of failures, although usually not long lasting, of the order of tens of minutes, can occur
with high enough frequency, of the order of several a day, to significantly affect network performance. The relatively short
duration of such failures coupled with issues of computational complexity and convergence time due to the size of current
day networks discourage adaptive reactions to such events. Consequently, it is desirable to a priori compute a routing solution that performs well in all such scenarios. Through computational evaluations we demonstrate that
our technique yields link weights that perform well over all single link failures and also scales well, in terms of computational complexity, with the size of the network.
Keywords Routing - Traffic Engineering - IGP - Optimization - link failures