Characterization and comparison of modern Layer-2 Ethernet survivability protocols

Proceedings of the Annual Southeastern Symposium on System Theory

Volumn 37, Issue , 2005, Pages 124-129

  Carmichael, Lee S ^a   Ghani, Nasir ^b   Rajan, P K ^b   O'Donoghue, Karen ^c   Hott, Robert ^c  

^a Tennessee Valley Authority Chattanoog   (United States)

^b Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^c NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethernet; Fault tolerance; Layer 2; RSTP; Spanning tree; STP; Survivability

Indexed keywords

ETHERNET; LAYER-2; RSTP; SPANNING TREE; STP; SURVIVABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 33744914048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSST.2005.1460890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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