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A distributed approach to handle topological changes in advanced switching

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Antonio Robles-Gómez,

Aurelio Bermúdez,

Francisco J. Quiles, and

Tor SkeieAuthors Info & Claims

PM2HW2N '07: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks

October 2007

Pages 37 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1145/1298275.1298283

Published: 22 October 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) is a new high-performance serial interconnect. In order to support high availability, its specification establishes a management infrastructure, which is in charge of maintaining the network operation after the occurrence of a topological change. During the change assimilation process, a management mechanism must discover the new topology, obtain a set of paths, and finally distribute them to the fabric endpoints. Recently, an implementation for this mechanism has been proposed, in which a management entity performs all the previous tasks in a centralized way. In this paper, we propose a distributed solution for computing the new set of paths, with the aim of reducing the negative impact on the network service of the centralized proposal.

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Solheim ALysne OBermudez ACasado RSodring TSkeie TRobles-Gomez A(2009)Efficient and deadlock-free reconfiguration for source routed networksProceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5160889(1-8)Online publication date: 23-May-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5160889

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A distributed approach to handle topological changes in advanced switching
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
  2. Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
2. Networks

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PM2HW2N '07: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks

October 2007

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DOI:10.1145/1298275

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University of Glasgow, UK
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University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

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Solheim ALysne OBermudez ACasado RSodring TSkeie TRobles-Gomez A(2009)Efficient and deadlock-free reconfiguration for source routed networksProceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5160889(1-8)Online publication date: 23-May-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5160889

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