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PUBLICATIONS

@ DBLP

  1. A. Ghanwani, "A qualitative comparison of neural network models applied to the vertex covering problem," ELEKTRIK, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Special Issue on Neural Networks, April 1994.[paper]
  2. V. Srinivasan, E. Gelenbe, A. Ghanwani, "Packet or cell loss reduction in networks," 7th IEEE LAN/MAN workshop, Marathon, FL, March 1995. [abstract, slides]
  3. V. Srinivasan, A. Ghanwani, E. Gelenbe, "Block loss reduction in ATM networks," Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Milan, Italy, May 1995. [paper]
  4. A. Ghanwani, "Neural Networks for Network Optimization," MS Thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, May 1995. [paper, slides]
  5. V. Srinivasan, A. Ghanwani, E. Gelenbe, "A simulation study of schemes for block loss reduction in ATM networks using FEC and buffer management," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N), Las Vegas, NV, September 1995. [paper]
  6. K. Vu, A. Fichou, A. Ghanwani, R. Onvural, "Rate based flow control for unreserved traffic in the NBBS architecture," IBM Technical Report 29.2132, 1996.
  7. V. Srinivasan, A. Ghanwani, E. Gelenbe, "Block loss reduction in ATM networks," Computer Communications, December 1996. [paper]
  8. E. Gelenbe, A. Ghanwani, V. Srinivasan, "Improved neural heuristics for multipoint routing," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, March 1997.
  9. E. Gelenbe, A. Ghanwani, "Multipoint route computation for delay sensitive traffic," Presented at INFORMS, May 1997. [abstract, slides]
  10. E. Bowen, A. Ghanwani, W. Pace, G. Shelton, V. Srinivasan, K. Vu, A. Zaghloul, Technical report discussing network design of a customer's multiprotocol campus network using VLAN capable Layer 3 switches, March, 1998.
  11. A. Ghanwani, E. Gelenbe, "Approximate analysis of a dynamic priority queueing method for ATM networks," Proceedings of the International Conference on Performance of Information and Communications Systems (PICS), Chapman and Hall, Lund, Sweden, May 1998. [paper, slides]
  12. A. Ghanwani, "Multipoint routing and traffic management in high speed networks," Doctoral Dissertation, Duke University, Durham, NC, May 1998. [paper, slides]
  13. A. Ghanwani, "Neural and delay based heuristics for multipoint routing," European Journal of Operational Research, July 1998.
  14. E. Gelenbe, A. Ghanwani, "Optimum cell duplication or replication for multicast applications," Proceedings of the SPIE Performance and Control Conference, Boston, MA, November 1998. [paper, slides]
  15. E. Gelenbe, A. Ghanwani, "Approximate analysis of coupled queueing in ATM networks," IEEE Communications Letters, February 1999.
  16. A. Ghanwani, B. Jamoussi, D. Fedyk, P. Ashwood-Smith, L. Li, N. Feldman, "Traffic engineering standards in IP networks using MPLS," IEEE Communications Magazine, December 1999. [paper]

STANDARDS CONTRIBUTIONS

ATM Forum
  1. K. Vu, C. Kunzinger, A. Fichou, R. Cherukuri, A. Ghanwani, Comments on TM 4.0 - ATM_Forum/95-0013R8, ATM_Forum/95-1240, October 1995.
IEEE 802
  1. A. Ghanwani, J. W. Pace, J. J. Lynch, R. Love, Source routing in IEEE P802.1Q token ring bridges, IEEE 802.1 Interim Meeting, Bellevue, WA, February 1998. [slides]
  2. A. Ghanwani, On the use of the Customer ID field, IEEE 802.17 Interim Meeting, Orlando, FL, January 2002. [slides]
  3. A. Ghanwani, A reference model for 802.17, IEEE 802.17 Plenary Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March 2002. [slides]
  4. A. Ghanwani, S. Wood, J. Lemon, A reference model for 802.17, IEEE 802.17 Interim Meeting, Ottawa, ON, May 2002. [slides]
  5. A. Ghanwani, L. Mo, Flooding in 802.17 networks, IEEE 802.17 Interim Meeting, Ottawa, ON, May 2002. [slides]
  6. A. Ghanwani, A behavioral description of the 802.17 MAC, IEEE 802.17 Interim Meeting, Ottawa, ON, May 2002. [slides]
  7. A. Ghanwani, Computing fair rates in RPR, IEEE 802.17 Plenary Meeting, Vancouver, BC, July 2002. [slides]
  8. A. Ghanwani, Generation of protection messages, IEEE 802.17 Plenary Meeting, Vancouver, BC, July 2002. [slides]
  9. A. Ghanwani, Service classes in the 802.17 MAC, IEEE 802.17 Plenary Meeting, Vancouver, BC, July 2002. [slides]
  10. D. James, A. Ghanwani, Avoiding frame misordering and duplication in 802.17, IEEE 802.17 Interim Meeting, New Orleans, LA, September 2002. [slides, more slides]
  11. A. Ghanwani, C. Bassias, Ring configuration and provisioning, IEEE 802.17 Interim Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2003. [slides]
  12. A. Ghanwani, J. Lemon, N. Uzun, Bandwidth allocations in the P802.17 MAC, IEEE 802.17 Plenary Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2003. [slides]
  13. P. Thaler, M. Wadekar, A. Ghanwani, J. Pelissier, H. Barass, N. Finn, Data Center Needs for I/O Consolidation, IEEE 802 Tutorial, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2007. [slides]
  14. A. Ghanwani et al., A proposal for 802.1Qaz enhanced transmission selection, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, Denver, CO, July 2008. [slides]
  15. A. Ghanwani, R. D'Cruz, S. Sathe, S. Vobbilisetty, Bridge Requirements for Server Virtualization, IEEE 802.1 Interim Meeting, Seoul, South Korea, September 2008. [slides]
  16. A. Ghanwani, A. Hazarika, Reaction point identifier for 802.1Q -- Is it really needed?, IEEE 802.1 interim meeting, Seoul, South Korea, September 2008. [slides]
  17. A. Ghanwani, Making the Flow ID optional in 802.1Qau, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, Dallas, TX, November 2008. [slides]
  18. A. Ghanwani, PFC and untagged frames, IEEE 802.1 Interim Meeting, Pittsburg, PA, May 2009. [slides]
  19. A. Ghanwani, Defense mechanisms for PFC, IEEE 802.1 Interim Meeting, Volterra, Italy, September 2009. [slides]
  20. P. Thaler, A. Ghanwani, M. Wadekar, P. Congdon, J. Pelissier, Edge Virtual Bridging, IEEE 802 Tutorial, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2009. [slides]
  21. A. Ghanwani, P. Koganti, S. Vobbilisetty, R. Sharma, Bridge assigned VSI type IDs for VDP, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2010. [slides]
  22. A. Ghanwani, J. Lynch, M. Wadekar, FCoE device type indication, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2012. [slides]
  23. K. Gillum, J. Hitt, A. Ghanwani, Application VLAN TLV - PAR & 5 Criteria, IEEE 802 Interim Meeting, Victoria, BC, May 2013. [slides]
  24. A. Ghanwani, P. Thaler, Link Aggregation and DCB Protocols, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2013. [slides]
  25. A. Ghanwani, K. Gillum, Application VLAN TLV: A Discussion of Issues, IEEE 802 Interim Meeting, York, UK, September 2013. [slides]
  26. A. Ghanwani, SVID Assignment in CDCP, IEEE 802 Interim Meeting, York, UK, September 2013. [slides]
  27. A. Ghanwani, P. Thaler, J. Lynch, M. Gusat, The Case for an Alternative Link-level Flow Control Mechanism at High Speeds, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, Dallas, TX, November 2013. [slides]
  28. A. Ghanwani, J. White, Enhancements to Traffic Scheduling and DCBX, IEEE 802 Plenary Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2014. [slides]
  29. A. Ghanwani, J. White, Lossless Traffic Over Long Distance Links in DCB Networks, IEEE 802.1 Interim Meeting, Ottawa, ON, September 2014. [slides]
IETF

@ datatracker.ietf.org
@ arkko.com

RFCs

  1. A. Ghanwani, J. W. Pace, V. Srinivasan, A. Smith, M. Seaman, A framework for integrated services over shared and switched LAN technologies, RFC 2816, May 2000.
  2. R. Perlman, D. Eastlake, D. Dutt, S. Gai, A. Ghanwani, RBridges: Base Protocol Specification, RFC 6325, July 2011.
  3. D. Eastlake, A. Banerjee, D. Dutt, R. Perlman, A. Ghanwani, Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) Use of IS-IS, RFC 6326, July 2011.
  4. D. Eastlake, R. Perlman, A. Ghanwani, D. Dutt, V. Manral, Routing Bridges (RBridges): Adjacency, RFC 6327, July 2011.
  5. D. Eastlake, T. Senevirathne, A.Ghanwani, D. Dutt, A. Banerjee, Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) Use of IS-IS, RFC 7176, May 2014.
  6. D. Eastlake, R. Perlman, A. Ghanwani, H. Yang, V. Manral, Routing Bridges (RBridges): Adjacency, RFC 7177, May 2014.
  7. D. Eastlake, A. Ghanwani, V. Manral, Y. Li, C. Bestler, Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Header Extension, RFC 7179, May 2014.
  8. D. Eastlake, M. Zhang, A. Ghanwani, V. Manral, A. Banerjee, Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Clarifications, Corrections, and Updates, RFC 7180, May 2014.
  9. R. Krishnan, L. Yong, A. Ghanwani, N. So, B. Khasnabish, Mechanisms for Optimizing Link Aggregation Group (LAG) and Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) Component Link Utilization in Networks, RFC 7424, January 2015.
  10. D. Eastlake, M. Zhang, A. Ghanwani, V. Manral, A. Banerjee, Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Clarifications, Corrections, and Updates, RFC 7780, February 2016.
  11. R. Perlman, D. Eastlake, M. Zhang, A. Ghanwani, H. Zhai, Alternatives for Multilevel TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links), RFC 8243, RFC 8243, September 2017.
  12. A. Ghanwani, L. Dunbar, M. McBride, V. Bannai, R. Krishnan, A Framework for Multicast in Network Virtualization over Layer 3, RFC 8293, January 2018.
  13. S. Aldrin et al., Service Function Chaining (SFC) Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) Framework, RFC 8924, October 2020.

Internet Drafts

  1. A. Ghanwani, J. W. Pace, V. Srinivasan, Integrated Services over Token Ring Networks, July 1996. [draft]
  2. S. Blake, A. Ghanwani, J. W. Pace, V. Srinivasan, ARIS Support for LAN Media Switching, March 1997. [draft]
  3. D. Bussiere, H. Esaki, A. Ghanwani, S. Matsuzawa, J. W. Pace, V. Srinivasan, Labels for MPLS over LAN media, August 1997. [draft, slides]
  4. D. Fedyk, A. Ghanwani, Metrics and Resource Classes for Traffic Engineering, October 1999. [draft]
  5. D. Fedyk, A. Ghanwani, R. Balay, J. Ash, A. Vedrenne, Multiple Metrics for Traffic Engineering with IS-IS and OSPF, November 2000. [draft]
  6. H. Shah, A. Ghanwani, N. Bitar, ARP Broadcast Reduction for Large Data Centers, October 2011. [draft]
  7. D. Eastlake, A. Ghanwani, V. Manral, C. Bestler, RBridges: Further TRILL Header Extensions, June 2012. [draft]
  8. T. Senevirathne et al., Use of 802.1ag for TRILL OAM messages, June 2012. [draft]
  9. D. Eastlake, A. Ghanwani, Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) Support of the Link Layer Discover Protocol (LLDP), September 2012. [draft]
  10. D. Eastlake, M. Wadekar, A. Ghanwani, P. Agarwal, T. Mizrahi, TRILL: Support of IEEE 802.1Qbb, 802.1Qaz, and Congestion Notification, October 2012. [draft]
  11. D. Eastlake, M. Wadekar, A. Ghanwani, P. Agarwal, T. Mizrahi, TRILL: Support of IEEE 802.1 Priority-based Flow Control and Enhanced Transmission Selection, January 2013. [draft]
  12. D. Eastlake, M. Wadekar, A. Ghanwani, P. Agarwal, T. Mizrahi, TRILL: Support of IEEE 802.1 Congestion Notification, January 2013. [draft]
  13. Y. Li, W. Hao, J. Hudson, N. Nimmu, A. Ghanwani, Aware Spanning Tree Topology Change on RBridges, November 2013. [draft]
  14. A. Ghanwani, L. Dunbar, V. Bannai, R. Krishnan, Multicast Issues in Networks Using NVO3, February 2014. [draft]
  15. S. Kini, R. Folkes, J. Medved, R. Krishnan, A. Ghanwani, Information Model for Policy Based Routing, February 2014. [draft]
  16. R. Krishnan, A. Ghanwani, S. Kini, D. McDysan, D. Lopez, Large Flow Use Cases for I2RS PBR and QoS, April 2014. [draft]
  17. R. Krishnan et al., SFC OAM Requirements and Framework, July 2014. [draft]
  18. L. Xia, L. Yong, W. Hao, A. Ghanwani, R. Krishnan, Layer 2 Gateway (L2GW), October 2014. [draft]
  19. S. Hares et al., An Information Model for Basic Network Policy, October 2014. [draft]
  20. R. Krishnan, A. Ghanwani, J. Halpern, S. Kini, D. Lopez, SFC Long-lived Flow Use Cases, February 2015. [draft]
  21. H. Chen et al., NVO3 Operations, Administration, and Maintenance Requirements, October 2015. [draft]
  22. S. Kini et al., Filter-Based RIB Information Model, June 2016. [draft]
  23. S. Natarajan et al., An Analysis of Lightweight Virtualization Technologies for NFV, July 2016. [draft]
  24. R. Perlman, D. Eastlake, Y. Li, A. Ghanwani, RBridges: TRILL Link Data Optimizations, September 2017. [draft]
  25. M. Zhang, T. Senevirathne, J. Pathangi, A. Banerjee, A. Ghanwani, TRILL Resilient Distribution Trees, January 2018. [draft]
  26. J. Kumar et al., Inband Flow Analyzer, April 2020. [draft]

I am listed as a contributor in the following RFCs: 6905. I have been acknowledged in the following RFCs: 2775, 3213, 4110, 4762, 6820, 6850, 7172, 7178, 7781, 7783, 7938, 8584, 8926, 8971.

T11
  1. A. Ghanwani, J. Hufferd, S. Vobbilisetty, On Duplicate MAC Addresses, T11/07-689v1, T11.3 FC-BB-5 meeting, Orlando, FL, December 2007.
  2. J. Pelissier, C. DeSanti, J. Hufferd, A. Ghanwani, Unified ACL Theory, T11/08-058v0, T11.3 FC-BB-5 meeting, Austin, TX, February 2008.
  3. A. Ghanwani, FIP Snooping, T11/08-283v1, T11.3 FC-BB-5 meeting, Coeur d'Alene, ID, June 2008.
  4. A. Ghanwani, FIP Keep Alive - Some Issues and Solutions, T11/08-434v0, T11.3 FC-BB-5 meeting, Seattle, WA, August 2008.
  5. A. Ghanwani, Proposal for FIP Keep Alive, T11/08-471v0, T11.3 FC-BB-5 meeting, Seattle, WA, August 2008.
  6. A. Ghanwani, Using LLDP for VLAN Configuration, T11/08-557v0, T11.3 FC-BB-5 meeting, Providence, RI, October 2008.
sFlow
  1. P. Phaal, A. Ghanwani, sFlow LAG Counters Structure, September 2012. [standard]
p4
  1. C. Kim, P. Bhide, E. Doe, H. Holbrook, A. Ghanwani, D. Daly, M. Hira, B. Davie, In-band Network Telemetry (INT), June 2016. [ paper]


PRESENTATIONS

  1. A. Ghanwani, Introduction to Resilient Packet Rings, IEEE Santa Clara Valley, June 12, 2002. [slides]
  2. M. Wadekar and A. Ghanwani, Plumbing for Clouds: Overlay Protocols for Multi-tenancy, Ethernet Alliance Webinar, August 28, 2012. [video recording]
  3. A. Ghanwani and S. Das, Segment Routing, Dell Networking Meetup, May 21, 2015. [slides]


PATENTS

@ USPTO

  1. "Method and system for providing congestion control in a data communications network," (with G. Marin, C. Jeffries, K. Vu), US Patent #US6035333, March 2000.
  2. "Method and apparatus for network flow control," (with B. Makrucki, K. Vu), US Patent #US6075769, June 2000.
  3. "Method and apparatus for relative rate marking switches," (with G. Marin, K. Vu), US Patent #US6185187, Feb 2001.
  4. "Method and apparatus for network flow control," (with B. Makrucki, K. Vu), US Patent #US6400686, June 2002.
  5. "Method and apparatus for allocation of available bandwidth," (with B. Makrucki, K. Vu), US Patent #US6587436, July 2003.
  6. "Enhanced flow control in ATM edge switches," (with M. Aydemir, C. Jeffries, G. Marin, N. Strole, K. Vu), US Patent #US6633585, October 2003.
  7. "Computing and using resource colors for composite links," (with D. Fedyk), US Patent #US6842788, January 2005.
  8. "Automatic protection switching using link-level redundancy supporting multiprotocol label switching," (with A. Fredette, L. Andersson, N. Doraswamy), US Patent #US6987727, January 2006.
  9. "System, device, and method for establishing label switched paths across multiple autonomous systems," (with A. Fredette, N. Doraswamy), US Patent #US7076559, July 2006.
  10. "Address assignment in Fibre Channel over Ethernet environments," (with R. Snively, E. Valdevit, S. Vobbilisetty, J. Hufferd, G. Wenig, B. Zemlyak), US Patent #US8108454, January 2012.
  11. "Automatic protection switching using link-level redundancy supporting multiprotocol label switching," (with A. Fredette, L. Andersson, N. Doraswamy), US Patent #US8134917, March 2012.
  12. "Method and apparatus for selecting spanning tree root," (with P. Congdon), US Patent #US8203970, June 2012.
  13. "Congestion notification in private VLANs," (with S. Yu), US Patent #US8660075, February 2014.
  14. "Redundant host connection in a routed network," (with S. Gupta, P. Koganti, and S. Yu), US Patent #US8665886, March 2014.
  15. "Congestion notification across multiple layer-2 domains," (with S. Yu), US Patent #US8929218, January 2015.
  16. "Redundant host connection in a routed network," (with S. Gupta, P. Koganti, and S. Yu), US Patent #US9019976, April 2015.
  17. "Systems and methods providing reverse path forwarding compliance for a multihoming virtual routing bridge," (with P. Janardhanan, R. Mahadevan, S. Sundaram), US Patent #US9083645, July 2015.
  18. "Quality of service in a heterogeneous network," (with S. Yu, J. Terry), US Patent #US9225656, December 2015.
  19. "N-node virtual link trunking (VLT) systems data plane," (with M. Anumala, K. Subramanian, P. Janardhanan, S. Sundaram, A. Natarajan), US Patent #US9264308, February 2016.
  20. "Layer-3 support in TRILL networks," (with P. Koganti, S. Vobbilisetty, R. Krishnamurthy, N. Venkatesan, S. Yu), US Patent #US9270572, February 2016.
  21. "N-node virtual link trunking (VLT) systems and methods," (with K. Subramanian, P. Janardhanan, S. Sundaram, M. Anumala), US Patent #US9288138, March 2016.
  22. "Port extender," (with S. Sundaram, K. Subramanian, P. Janardhanan, M. Anumala, R. Jayakumar), US Patent #US9294396, March 2016.
  23. "System and method for managing virtual link state," (with S. Lee, T. Chenault), US Patent #US9344336, May 2016.
  24. "Systems and methods for providing multicast routing in an overlay network," (with K. Subramanian, M. Anumala, S. Sundaram, P. Janardhanan), US Patent #US9350558, May 2016.
  25. "Multicast in a TRILL network," (with N. Venkatesan, S. Yu, P. Koganti, R. Krishnamurthy), US Patent #US9407533, May 2016.
  26. "Systems and methods for providing VLAN-independent gateways in a network virtualization overlay implementation," (with K. Subramanian, S. Sane), US Patent #US9471356, October 2016.
  27. "Reducing internal fabric congestion in leaf-spine switch fabric," (with S. Sundaram), US Patent #US9548872, January 2017.
  28. "Routing in spine-leaf networking systems," (with K. Subramanian, P. Janardhanan, S. Sundaram, M. Anumala), US Patent #US9584397, February 2017.
  29. "Supporting multiple multicast trees in TRILL networks," (with S. Yu, N. Venkatesan, P. Koganti, M. Raman, R. Krishnamurthy, D. Chatwani), US Patent #US9608833, March 2017.
  30. "N-node systems and methods for link aggregation groups (LAG)," (with M. Anumala, K. Subramanian, J. Pathangi Narasimhan, S. Sundaram), US Patent #US9614727, April 2017.
  31. "Network layer multicasting in TRILL networks," (with S. Yu, N. Venkatesan, R. Krishnamurthy, P. Koganti, M. Raman), US Patent #US9628293, April 2017.
  32. "Multi-level iSCSI QoS for target differentiated data in DCB networks," (with C. Sankaran), US Patent #US9634944, April 2017.
  33. "System and method for managing virtual link state," (with S. Lee, T. Chenault), US Patent #US9654376, May 2017.
  34. "Systems and methods for providing multicast routing in an overlay network," (with K. Subramanian, M. Anumala, S. Sundaram, P. Janardhanan), US Patent #US9698995, July 2017.
  35. "Flooding packets on a per-virtual-network basis," (with S. Yu, P. Koganti, D. Chatwani), US Patent #US9806906, October 2017.
  36. "Port extender," (with S. Sundaram, K. Subramanian, P. Janardhanan, M. Anumala, R. Jayakumar), US Patent #US9887917, February 2018.
  37. "Systems and methods for increasing the multiprotocol label switching stack," (with S. Sane, S. Sundaram, K. Subramanian), US Patent #US9906442, February 2018.
  38. "System and method for policy-based smart placement for network function virtualization," (with R. Krishnan, S. Mukhopadhyay, M. Anumala), US Patent #US9967136, May 2018.
  39. "Preserving quality of service across TRILL networks," (with S. Yu, P. Koganti, J. Terry, W. Cheung, J. Cheng, S. Varanasi), US Patent #US10033650, July 2018.
  40. "Self tuning buffer allocation in a shared-memory switch," (with S. Sundaram, A. Mahendrababu, A. Natarajan), US Patent #US10038652, July 2018.
  41. "Systems and methods for adaptive credit-based flow," (with S. Sundaram, J. White), US Patent #US10044632, August 2018.
  42. "Optimizing traffic paths to orphaned hosts in VXLAN networks using virtual link trunking-based multi-homing," (with P. Vattem, M. Velayudhan, S. Sundararaman, M. Ayalasomayajula, B. Gada), US Patent #US10425325, September 2019.
  43. "Method and system to avoid temporary traffic loss with BGP Ethernet VPN multi-homing with data-plane MAC address learning," (with M. Velayudhan, P. Vattem), US Patent #US10536370, January 2020.
  44. "Systems and methods for handling data congestion for shared buffer switches with dynamic thresholding," US Patent #US10805223, October 2020.
  45. "Microburst visibility system," US Patent #US10862813, December 2020.
  46. "Hash collision mitigation system," US Patent #US10938721, March 2021.

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