An overview of the AURORA gigabit testbed

Author

Clark, D.D. ; Davie, B.S. ; Farber, D.J. ; Gopal, I.S. ; Kadaba, Bharath K. ; Sincoskie, W. David ; Smith, Jonathan M. ; Tennenhouse, David L.

Author_Institution

Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, MA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

4-8 May 1992

Firstpage

569

Abstract

AURORA is one of five US testbeds charged with exploring applications of, and technologies necessary for, networks operating at gigabit per second or higher bandwidths. The authors provide an overview of the goals and methodologies employed in AURORA and report preliminary results from the first year of research. AURORA is an experiment in collaboration, where government support has spurred interaction among centers of excellence in industry, academia, and government. The emphasis of the AURORA testbed is research into the supporting technologies for gigabit networking. The targets include new software architectures, network abstractions, hardware technologies, and applications. The AURORA testbed will provide a platform in which researchers can explore business and scientific applications of gigabit networks, while evolving the network architecture to meet the needs of these emerging applications

Keywords

computer testing; performance evaluation; test facilities; wide area networks; AURORA gigabit testbed; WAN testing; hardware technologies; network abstractions; network architecture; software architectures; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Collaborative work; Communication industry; Communication switching; Delay; Government; Hardware; Switches; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '92. Eleventh Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, IEEE

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0602-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1992.263450

Filename

263450