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T1 Fast Path Ethernet Switching: On-demand, Efficient Transparent Bridges for Data  Center and Campus Networks
A1 Ibáñez Fernández, Guillermo Agustín
A1 Carral, Juan A.
A1 García Martínez, Alberto
A1 Arco, J. M.
A1 Rivera, Diego
AB In this paper we propose Fast Path Ethernet, anevolution of the transparent bridges learning mechanisms toincrease infrastructure utilization for campus and datacenternetworks in a simple way. Fast Path Ethernet Switches reusestandard ARP Request and Reply packets to set up fast ondemandpaths between hosts. This architecture uses thestandard Ethernet frame format, so it is fully transparent tohosts and compatible with 802.1D bridging in core-islandmode. A proof of concept has been implemented in Linux.Preliminary simulations in metropolitan and campus networktopologies show superior performance to spanning tree andeven to shortest path forwarding, at a fraction of the theircomplexity.
PB IEEE - The Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers, Inc
SN 978-1-4244-6067-0
SN 1944-0367
YR 2010
FD 2010-05
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/20100
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/20100
LA eng
NO This work is at: The 17th IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, took place May 5 - 7, 2010 in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
NO This work was supported in part by grants from Comunidadde Madrid through Project MEDIANET-CM (S-2009/TIC-1468) and from Comunidad de Castilla la Mancha throughProject EMARECE (PII1I09-0204-4319).
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