A survey of advanced ethernet forwarding approaches

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 92-115

  Sofia, Rute C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Carrier grade ethernet; Forwarding; Man

Indexed keywords

CARRIER-GRADE ETHERNET; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; FORWARDING; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; MAN; PATH COMPUTATION; RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES; SPANNING TREE; TRANSMISSION RATES;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SURVEYS;

ETHERNET;

EID: 70449371498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2009.090108     Document Type: Article

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