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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