Title :
VDE: virtual distributed Ethernet
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Bologna Univ., Italy
Abstract :
The idea of VDE is very effective but straightforward simple and can be applied in very many configuration to provide several services. It is a sort of Swiss knife of emulated networks. It can be used as a general virtual private network as well as a support technology for mobility, a tool for network testing, a general reconfigurable overlay network, a layer for implementing privacy preserving technologies and many others. A prototype VDE has been implemented and released as free software under the GPL licence.
Keywords :
IP networks; local area networks; multicast communication; public domain software; virtual private networks; virtual prototyping; GPL licence; Swiss knife; VDE; free software; mobility; network service; network testing tool; preserving technology; reconfigurable overlay network; virtual distributed Ethernet; virtual private network; Application software; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Ethernet networks; Linux; Physics computing; Software tools; Switches; Testing; Virtual machining;
Conference_Titel :
Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities, 2005. Tridentcom 2005. First International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2219-X
DOI :
10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.38
