Optimizing load distribution for Shortest Path bridging via Network Coding

The world of Ethernet has experienced a number of changes in the last few decades. The introduction of new protocols and new ways of data transfer has caused major changes in the Ethernet world. With the current trend, there will be a time when data is moved from various datacenters at less cost. Efficient protocols would be proposed to see this change in data migration. Performance and delay issues would be a thing of the past. Existing technologies will continue to play a very dominant role in these situations. This is because they have worked well in old protocols, and have very promising features which worked well when incorporated into the current protocols produce great results. This paper proposes one of the ways by which this can be achieved. We attempt to combine two emerging protocols which have changed the phase of networking in these few years. These are, Shortest Path bridging and Network Coding. A combination of the two can be very promising as they both offer very appealing properties to the world of Ethernet technology. We first observe the properties offered by shortest path bridging and optimize its performance using network coding.