TY - JOUR
T1 - Scalable, hierarchical, Ethernet transport network architecture (HETNA)
AU - Menachi, Eliav
AU - Avin, Chen
AU - Giladi, Ran
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement 215462.
PY - 2012/3/1
Y1 - 2012/3/1
N2 - Ethernet technology is not inherently scalable, and yet, Ethernet dominates LANs, and recently has diffused to access, aggregation networks, and MANs. Ethernet is even considered for transport networks in the backbone. Many solutions from IEEE, IETF, and MEF are considered for enabling Ethernet beyond LANs and bridged LANs. In this paper we offer HETNA, a hierarchical Ethernet forwarding, which is compatible with legacy networks used by enterprises, carriers, and backbone networks, and provides scalability, mobility, protection, multicasting, and QoS support to intra- and inter-domain networks in an efficient forwarding manner. The suggested architecture can handle streaming, real-time, multicasting, and other applications as well as various addressing mechanisms (e.g., IP or URI addressing). Both connection-oriented transport services and connectionless-oriented services are possible in the suggested architecture. This architecture was simulated and prototyped, showing significant improvements over regular Ethernet in terms of buffers and control messages that enable this network to function.
AB - Ethernet technology is not inherently scalable, and yet, Ethernet dominates LANs, and recently has diffused to access, aggregation networks, and MANs. Ethernet is even considered for transport networks in the backbone. Many solutions from IEEE, IETF, and MEF are considered for enabling Ethernet beyond LANs and bridged LANs. In this paper we offer HETNA, a hierarchical Ethernet forwarding, which is compatible with legacy networks used by enterprises, carriers, and backbone networks, and provides scalability, mobility, protection, multicasting, and QoS support to intra- and inter-domain networks in an efficient forwarding manner. The suggested architecture can handle streaming, real-time, multicasting, and other applications as well as various addressing mechanisms (e.g., IP or URI addressing). Both connection-oriented transport services and connectionless-oriented services are possible in the suggested architecture. This architecture was simulated and prototyped, showing significant improvements over regular Ethernet in terms of buffers and control messages that enable this network to function.
KW - Ethernet
KW - Inter-domain
KW - Intra-domain
KW - Mobile
KW - Scalable
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U2 - 10.1007/s11235-010-9376-1
DO - 10.1007/s11235-010-9376-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84859610693
VL - 49
SP - 299
EP - 312
JO - Telecommunication Systems
JF - Telecommunication Systems
SN - 1018-4864
IS - 3
ER -