Data centers are now the basis for many Internet and cloud computing services. The
Spanning Tree Protocol and its variants have been widely used in data center networks for a …

An adequate network management is an essential part for each network permitting to keep
the network performance at a suitable level. In this paper, we present our work focusing on …

Traffic engineering (TE) consists in improving the performance of the telecomunication
networks which is evaluated by a large number of criteria. The ultimate objective is to avoid …

Computer Networks which provide vast amount of information and resources greatly
facilitating communications, business and studies have become indispensable in our lives …

Ethernet networks rely on Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) that guarantees a loop-free tree
topology in the network. STP does this task by pruning the redundant links. This protocol …

This paper addresses the problem of energy consumption in the Metropolitan Area Networks
that employ Carrier Grade Ethernet. The objective is to minimize the energy consumption of …

The exponential growth of the ICT sector in the last few years resulted in a considerable
increase in energy consumption. In the coming years it is expected that Internet will grow …

Traffic Engineering (TE) uses methods and models from a variety of mathematical fields,
such as statistics and optimization, to improve the performance of telecommunication …

Due to over-the-top (OTT) content utilising approximately 67% of the xed access
downstream Internet tra c during peak periods in North America, OTT content providers have …

Abstract The Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), used in Ethernet networks, maintains
a set of spanning trees that are used for routing the demands in the network. Each spanning …