Evaluation of Tree-Based Routing Ethernet

Tree-based Routing (TRE) revisits Tree-based Routing Architecture for Irregular Networks (TRAIN)—a forwarding scheme based on a spanning tree that was extended to use some shortcut links.We propose its adaptation to Ethernet, using a new type of hierarchical Ethernet addresses and a procedure to ass...

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Autores: Ibáñez, Guillermo, García-Martínez, Alberto, Carral, Juan Antonio, Arco, Jose M., Azcorra, Arturo|||0000-0002-5298-1248
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:IMDEA Networks Institute
Repositorio:IMDEA Networks Institute Digital Repository
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dspace.networks.imdea.org:20.500.12761/1431
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12761/1431
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Q Science::Q Science (General)
Q Science::QA Mathematics::QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
T Technology::T Technology (General)
T Technology::TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
T Technology::TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Routing bridges
Ethernet
spanning tree
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Sumario:Tree-based Routing (TRE) revisits Tree-based Routing Architecture for Irregular Networks (TRAIN)—a forwarding scheme based on a spanning tree that was extended to use some shortcut links.We propose its adaptation to Ethernet, using a new type of hierarchical Ethernet addresses and a procedure to assign them to bridges. We show that compared to RSTP, TRE offers improved throughput. The impact of transient loops in TRE is lower compared to the application of the classical shortest path routing protocols to Ethernet. Finally, TRE is self-configuring and its forwarding process is simpler and more efficient than in standard Ethernet and shortest path routing proposals.