Next-generation optical storage area networks: The light-trails approach

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 72-79

  Gumaste, Ashwin ^a   Zheng, Si Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MULTICASTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION; DYNAMIC PROVISIONING; LIGHT-TRAILS; OPTICAL MULTICASTING; STORAGE AREA NETWORKS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 17744361897     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2005.1404598     Document Type: Article

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