1 Routers need buffers to store and forward packets, especially when there is network congestion. With current memory technology, neither the SRAM nor the DRAM alone is suitabl...
—Differentiated Service (DiffServ) in combination with Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a promising technology in converting the best-effort Internet into a QoS-capable n...
Besides a more widespread sensitivity to ecological issues, the interest in energy-efficient network technologies springs from heavy and critical economical needs, since both ener...
Providing and managing security for large networked systems is difficult because their size and complexity makes manual design and management nearly impossible. Current security m...
Network operators need high-capacity router architectures that can offer scalability, provide throughput and performance guarantees, and maintain packet ordering. However, previou...