Shadow MACs: Scalable label-switching for commodity ethernet

HotSDN 2014 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2014 Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 157-162

  Agarwal, Kanak ^a   Dixon, Colin ^b   Rozner, Eric ^a   Carter, John ^a  

^a IBM AUSTIN RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Brocade Communications Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

consistent updates; datacenter; ethernet; label switching; routing; software defined networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907007281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2620728.2620758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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