An efficient approach to the network division problem, VLANs configuration and WLANs hosts grouping

Nowadays, network design and management can be considered as well understood topics. A thorough view of a complete project of a network infrastructure is definitely more important than its single details. Among the many innovations introduced in the IP networks, an interesting issue is represented by enhanced architectures where services like telephony and video transmission are provided on the same infrastructure used for data traffic. At the same time, actual networks are heterogeneous in terms of access network technologies, end user\´s device and finally operating systems. In these new scenarios innovative and efficient management\´s approaches are needed. This paper describes a proposal to improve the management of different network scenarios. This work presents a "partitioning algorithm" and some of its possible practical applications in the field of shared LANs, full switched LANs, VLANs (virtual local area networks) configuration, and in WLANs (wireless local area networks) environments.