@article {Simula.ND.70,
	title = {A Proposal for Managing ASI Fabrics},
	journal = {Journal of Systems Architecture},
	volume = {54},
	number = {7},
	year = {2008},
	month = {July},
	pages = {664-678},
	abstract = {Recent years, computer performance has been significantly increased. As a con-sequence, data I/O systems have become bottlenecks within systems. To alleviate this problem, Advanced Switching was recently proposed as a new standard for future interconnects. The Advanced Switching specification establishes a fabric man-agement infrastructure, which is in charge of updating the set of fabric paths each time a topological change takes place. The use of source routing and passive switches makes unfeasible the adaptation to this new technology of many existing proposals to handle topological changes in switched interconnection networks. This paper presents a fabric management mechanism for Advanced Switching, but also suitable for other source routing interconnects. Furthermore, the work presents a detailed performance evaluation for this proposal. This evaluation allows us to identify the main drawbacks of the mechanism and to define future improvements.},
	author = {Antonio Robles {G{\'o}mez} and Berm{\'u}dez, Aurelio and Casado, Rafael and Francisco Jos{\'e} {Quiles} and Skeie, Tor and Duato, Jose}
}
@inproceedings {Simula.ND.42,
	title = {A Distributed Approach to Handle Topological Changes in Advanced Switching},
	journal = {2nd ACM International Workshop on Performance Monitoring, Measurement, and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks},
	year = {2007},
	month = {October},
	pages = {37-44},
	publisher = {ACM Press},
	type = {Workshop},
	abstract = {Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) is a new high-performance serial interconnect. In order to support high availability, its specification establishes a management infrastructure, which is in charge of maintaining the network operation after the occurrence of a topological change. During the change assimilation process, a management mechanism must discover the new topology, obtain a set of paths, and finally distribute them to the fabric endpoints. Recently, an implementation for this mechanism has been proposed, in which a management entity performs all the previous tasks in a centralized way. In this paper, we propose a distributed solution for computing the new set of paths, with the aim of reducing the negative impact on the network service of the centralized proposal.},
	isbn = {978-1-59593-805-3},
	author = {Antonio Robles {G{\'o}mez} and Berm{\'u}dez, Aurelio and Casado, Rafael and Francisco Jos{\'e} {Quiles} and Skeie, Tor},
	editor = {Ould-Khaoua, M.}
}
