PortLand: a scalable fault-tolerant layer 2 data center network fabric

By Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Andreas Pamboris, Nathan Farrington, Nelson Huang, Pardis Miri, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Vikram Subramanya, Amin Vahdat. Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 2009

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