Title
Automatic VLAN creation based on on-line measurement
Abstract
Virtual LANs (VLANs) permit hosts connected to a LAN switch to be grouped together into logical groups as a function of some management policy rather than simply of their physical location. Commercial LAN switches support a variety of policies based on either physical or logical addresses, protocol types, tagged frames, or user defined rules. The objective of these policies is the same: to reduce the amount of traffic that needs to be routed by grouping together hosts which are likely to communicate with each other into the same virtual LAN. This paper proposes a novel and more direct approach, it shows how VLANs can be created and removed dynamically as a function of the measured traffic patterns across the network. This is both simpler than configuring many static rules and permits the VLAN configuration to adapt to the evolution in the traffic patterns. The latter point is especially important in future LANs supporting peer-to-peer continuous media services, such as IP telephony or video-conferencing, in which clusters of hosts come together to communicate with each other intensively for relatively short periods of time and then form into new clusters.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1145/505724.505731
Computer Communication Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
virtual lans,traffic pattern,future lans,commercial lan,automatic vlan creation,measured traffic pattern,on-line measurement,logical group,physical location,lan switch,logical address,virtual lan,ip telephony,video conferencing
Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Network switch,Virtual LAN,Voice over IP,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
29
3
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.91
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sean Rooney18112.50
Christian Hörtnagl2101.31
Jens Krause390.91