—The most common technology in Local Area Networks is the Ethernet protocol. The continuing evolution of Ethernet has propelled it into the scope of Metropolitan Area Networks. E...
—Networks based on Ethernet bridging scale poorly as bridges flood the entire network repeatedly, and several schemes have been proposed to mitigate this flooding problem; howe...
Dhananjay Sampath, Suchit Agarwal, J. J. Garcia-Lu...
The high demand for large scale storage capacity calls for the availability of massive storage solutions with high performance interconnects. Although cluster file systems are rap...
—In hybrid Optical/packet networks, wavelength and VLAN tag continuity along a Label Switched Path are two common constraints. These two types of constraints, referred to as Gene...
ÐWith effective packet-scheduling mechanisms, modern integrated networks can support the diverse quality-of-service requirements of emerging applications. However, arbitrating bet...