local area networks
Draft Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture
White Paper IEEE Std 802-2001, IEEE Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture, provides an overview to the family of IEEE 802 Standards, defines compliance with the family of IEEE 802 Standards, describes the relationship of the IEEE 802... [18 Jul 2008]
Metropolitan Ethernet Network: A Move From LAN to MAN
White Paper Ethernet has been the indisputable technology of choice for the Local Area Networks (LANs) for more than 30 years. Despite these improvements, Ethernet is still restricted to local area networks, and is not ready to become a carrier grade... [18 Jul 2008]
A Modular Gigabit Ethernet Backbone for NEPTUNE and Other Ocean Observatories
White Paper Ethernet is the most popular technology used for Local Area Networks (LANs). Recently, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology has successfully competed with SONET and other legacy alternatives such as ATM and Frame Relay for Metropolitan Area Network... [18 Jul 2008]
A Hybrid QoS Routing Strategy for Suburban Ad-Hoc Networks
White Paper The Suburban Ad-Hoc Network (SAHN) aims to provide suburban area connectivity for local area networks at broadband speed with a low initial cost and zero service charges using wireless technology. There exists various QoS routing solutions for... [18 Jul 2008]
Utilizing Path Diversity in Optical Packet Switched Interconnection Networks
White Paper SPINet (Scalable Photonic Integrated Network) was recently introduced as an optical packet switched interconnection architecture for local area applications such as high-performance computing systems and storage-area networks. [18 Jul 2008]
Performance Analysis of QoS Supported by Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) Mechanism in IEEE 802.11e
White Paper With fast deployment of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), the ability of WLAN to support real time services with stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements has come into fore. This paper evaluates the capability of QoS support in Enhanced... [18 Jul 2008]
An Architectural Model to Provide QoS in a Home Network and Its Evaluation in a Real Testbed
White Paper Home networks are an evolution of office local area networks, answering the need for residential distribution of broadband services. The design of a home network must strive to keep low costs, easy installation and maintenance while at the same... [18 Jul 2008]
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Helps to Reduce Information Search and Retrieval Time
White Paper Different areas of the IT department were storing documentation in a variety of folders across the local and wide area networks - making them increasingly hard to find. A global brokerage firm with offices located in major financial centers around... [18 Jul 2008]
Dynamic Injection Control Module for Optical Packet Switching Fabrics
White Paper The insertion of OPS networks to alleviate the electronic bottleneck has been proposed for a range of systems including core routers, local- and storage-area networks as well as high-performance computing systems. [18 Jul 2008]
A Network Management Architecture for Robust Packet Routing in Mesh Optical Access Networks
White Paper This paper describes architecture for optical Local Area Network (LAN) or Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) access. The architecture allows for bandwidth sharing within a wavelength and is robust to both link and node failures. [18 Jul 2008]
Virtual Local Area Networks
White Paper Today, Local Area Networks are defined as a single broadcast domain. Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN's) were developed as an alternative solution to using routers to contain broadcast traffic. A Local Area Network (LAN) was originally defined as... [11 Jul 2008]
Securing Layer 2 in Local Area Networks
White Paper To secure Local or Metropolitan Area Networks, the IEEE 802.1AE Media Access Control (MAC) Security Task Group has proposed the IEEE P802.1AE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: MAC Security (MACsec). [11 Jul 2008]
Throughput Optimization and Fair Bandwidth Allocation in Multi-Hop Wireless LANs
White Paper A number of researchers have studied this problem in the context of (single-hop) Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), where clients directly exchange traffic with Access Points (APs). There is an inherent well-known conflict between fairness and... [11 Jul 2008]
Optimizing 10-Gigabit Ethernet for Networks of Workstations, Clusters, and Grids: A Case Study
White Paper Specifically, with appropriate optimizations to the configurations of the 10GbE adapter and TCP, the paper demonstrates that the 10GbE adapter can perform well in local-area, storage-area, system-area, and wide-area networks. [10 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing for Cellular/WLAN Integrated Networks
White Paper The interworking between the third-generation (3G) cellular network and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) is one of the promising approaches to next-generation wireless networks, which can exploit the complementary advantages of the cellular... [10 Jul 2008]
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