Reliability and Scalability of Ethernet Networks
The focus of this project is to identify and study the reliability
and scalability problems of the Ethernet. Then, provide solutions to enhance
Ethernet's robustness and scalability.
Publications
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Khaled Elmeleegy, and Alan L. Cox. "EtherProxy: Scaling The Ethernet By
Suppressing Broadcast Traffic". Under submission.
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Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, and T. S. Eugene Ng. "Understanding and
Mitigating the Effects of Count to Infinity in Ethernet Networks". To
appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. [.ps][.pdf]
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Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, and T. S. Eugene Ng. "EtherFuse: An Ethernet
Watchdog". In the proceedings of SIGCOMM 2007, Koyoto, Japan,
August 2007. [.ps] [.pdf]
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Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, and T. S. Eugene Ng. "On Count-to-Infinity
Induced Forwarding Loops in Ethernet Networks". In the proceedings of
INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006. [.ps]
[.pdf]
Patents
Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, and T. S. Eugene Ng. "System and
Method For Preventing Count-to-Infinity Problems in Ethernet Networks",
Filed April 2007.
Talks
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"Enhancing Ethernet's Reliability", Invited talk at Purdue University,
November 2007.
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"EtherFuse: An Ethernet Watchdog", Conference talk at SIGCOMM, August 2007.
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"On Count-to-Infinity Induced Forwarding Loops in Ethernet Networks", Conference
talk at Infocom, April 2006.
Source Code
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Bridge simulator including RSTP with epochs support. (download)