This paper presents an overview of the evolution of iWARP, the standard for RDMA over Ethernet. By going over the history of iWARP, the paper traces the developments that made iWARP a potent high performance replacement for InfiniBand, a true plug-and-play solution that maintains the same APIs while enabling Internet wide scalability. Looking forward, the elimination of the performance gap with...

Industrial Ethernet networking has inherent advantages for many industrial applications. By utilising a standards-based solution that supports multi-vendor implementations, Industrial Ethernet users enjoy highly reliable systems, reduced costs of deployment, and a guaranteed upgrade strategy as needs evolve. New product offerings for Industrial Ethernet, power utility substations, and transport...

The growing use of Ethernet interfaces in Aerospace and Industrial Process applications has created a need for an Intelligent Thermocouple Scanner to operate on an Ethernet network and complement Intelligent Pressure Scanners. The scanner must be able to accept several different thermocouple inputs, convert the signals to engineering units using NIST tables and output the data over a TCP/IP Eth...

One of the popular network security programs supporting host access control is the ’TCP Wrapper’ [13]. TCP Wrapper is a software–only system and many computers connected to the Internet are using it. But, TCP Wrapper does ’IP address–based’ access control. IP address is not such a reliable source when authenticating a host. In this paper, we point out two possible attacks against the TCP Wrappe...

The automotive industry’s future trends, such as automated driving or advanced driver assistance, require large bandwidths to handle massive data streams and strongly depend on well timed communication. The Ethernet technology is seen as a suitable candidate to cover those needs for vehicle-internal networks; however, Ethernet involves security issues. Thus, by discussing automotive Ethernet at...

Switched Ethernet is widely used for all kinds of applications. However, for demanding multimedia streaming applications in a fully-loaded network, legacy Ethernet is not the best choice due to its limited Quality-of-Service (QoS) support. The new specification of the IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) standard, an extension to legacy Ethernet, provides the QoS features needed for multimedia...

The scalability of Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Service (H-VPLS) with Ethernet access networks (RFC 4762) can be improved by incorporating Provider Backbone Bridge functionality in the VPLS access. Provider Backbone Bridging has been standardized as IEEE 802.1ah-2008. It aims to improve the scalability of Media Access Control (MAC) addresses and service instances in Provider Ethernet networ...

Real-time extensions to standard switched Ethernet widen the realm of computer networking into the time-critical domain. These technologies have started to establish in process automation, while Ethernet-based communication infrastructures in vehicles are novel and challenged by particularly hard real-time constraints. Simulation tools are of vital importance to explore the technical feasibilit...

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is an effective technology for reducing system load and improving performance. Recently, Ethernet offerings that exploit RDMA technology have become available that can potentially provide a high-performance fabric for MPI communications at lower cost than other competing technologies. The goal of this paper is to evaluate RDMA over gigabit Ethernet (ROE) as a ...