%0 Journal Article %A Ibáñez Fernández, Guillermo Agustín %A Naous, Jad %A Rojas Sánchez, Elisa %A Rivera Pinto, Diego %A Carral Pelayo, Juan Antonio %A Arco Rodríguez, José Manuel %T A Simple, Zero-configuration, Low Latency, Bridging Protocol %D 2010 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/6770 %X This paper describes a demo for a new type of bridges, ARP-Path bridges. These ARP-based Ethernet Switches rely on the race between ARP Request packets flooded over all links, to discover the minimum latency path to the destination host. The protocol uses all links, is loop free, uses the standard Ethernet frame format, is fully transparent to hosts and neither needs a spanning tree protocol to prevent loops nor a links state protocol to obtain minimum latency paths. Implementations in Linux and Openflow on NetFPGA show inherent robustness and fast reconfiguration. Simulation results show throughput and delay performance superior to the Spanning Tree Protocol and similar to shortest path routing, with lower complexity. %K Ethernet %K Routing bridges %K Shortest Path Bridges %K Spanning Tree %K Automatización %K Automation %K Ciencias tecnológicas %K Technology %~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala