Summary: An Evaluation of Weak State Mechanism Design
for Indirection in Dynamic Networks
Utku G¨unay Acer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY, USA
aceru@rpi.edu
Alhussein A. Abouzeid
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY, USA
abouzeid@ecse.rpi.edu
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
IBM India Research Laboratory
Bangalore, India
shivkumar-k@in.ibm.com
Abstract--State signaling and maintenance mechanisms play
crucial roles in communication network protocols. State is used
to facilitate indirections in protocols such as routing. Design
approaches for traditional state signaling mechanisms have been
categorized into soft and hard state. In both approaches, the
state is deterministic. Hence, we call both as having strong state

Source: Abouzeid, Alhussein A. - Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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