Acknowledgments
This research was supported in part by corporations including Intel, Nortel, and Ascom Nexion, and in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (of the DOD) monitored by DARPA/CMO under Contract MDA972-90-C-0035 and by AFMC under Contract F1VP9628-92-C-0116. Parts of, the paper are excerpts from earlier publications [11, 15, 16] by the author and his co-authors. QuickTime movies capturing various experimental results of, the CreditNet switch can be accessed at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cn-traces.html.
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