1st International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

Research Article

VDE: virtual distributed Ethernet

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.38,
        author={Renzo  Davoli},
        title={VDE: virtual distributed Ethernet},
        proceedings={1st International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2005},
        month={3},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.38}
    }
    
  • Renzo Davoli
    Year: 2005
    VDE: virtual distributed Ethernet
    TRIDENTCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.38
Renzo Davoli1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
*Contact email: renzo@cs.unibo.it

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.