Computer Science – Networking and Internet Architecture
Scientific paper
2004-11-08
Computer Science
Networking and Internet Architecture
6 pages
Scientific paper
Modern Ethernet switches support many advanced features beyond route learning and packet forwarding such as VLAN tagging, IGMP snooping, rate limiting, and status monitoring, which can be controlled through a programmatic interface. Traditionally, these features are mostly used to statically configure a network. This paper proposes to apply them as dynamic control mechanisms to maximize physical network link resources, to minimize failure recovery time, to enforce QoS requirements, and to support link-layer multicast without broadcasting. With these advanced programmable control mechanisms, standard Ethernet switches can be used as effective building blocks for metropolitan-area Ethernet networks (MEN), storage-area networks (SAN), and computation cluster interconnects. We demonstrate the usefulness of this new level of control over Ethernet switches with a MEN architecture that features multi-fold throughput gains and sub-second failure recovery time.
Chiueh Tzi-cker
Sharma Srikant
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