Scalable cycle-breaking algorithms for Gigabit Ethernet backbones

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2175-2184

  De Pellegrini, Francesco ^a   Starobinski, David ^b   Karpovsky, Mark G ^b   Levitin, Lev B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Graph Theory; Simulations; System Design

Indexed keywords

FLOW CONTROL MECHANISM; GIGABIT ETHERNET; SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL; TIME-TO-LIVE (TTL) FIELD;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; POLYNOMIALS; SIGNALING; SWITCHING THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 8344256474     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1354641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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