Jeff Hardee introduced me to the idea of using longer Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) path length values for high-speed links. I thought this was an intriguing idea and so I started to do some informal ...

Some people refer to Sun Labs distinguished engineer Radia Perlman as the Mother of the Internet and the creator of the spanning tree algorithm used by bridges and switches. Others know her as the ...

We’re using IPTV at our school and have discovered a situation that we don’t understand. The video is delivered over a group of Ethernet switches. When we investigate the individual links, we find ...

The Annals of Probability, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Oct., 1991), pp. 1559-1574 (16 pages) Consider the nearest neighbor graph for the integer lattice Z d in d dimensions. For a large finite piece of it, ...

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