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Saving data to 2-dimensional adjacent tables which are in memory or to database are adopted by most schemes when maintaining topology data dynamically. However, the adjacent tables would consume significant cost of the memory. Plus, network administration would have to do redundant and repeating work to compile the topology if services are rebooted, which would be absolutely inconvenient and ineffective...