@article {18543,
	title = {A survey of virtual LAN usage in campus networks},
	journal = {Communications Magazine, IEEE},
	volume = {49},
	year = {2011},
	month = {2011/07//},
	pages = {98 - 103},
	abstract = {VLANs are widely used in today{\textquoteright}s enterprise networks to improve Ethernet scalability and support network policies. However, manuals and textbooks offer very little information about how VLANs are actually used in practice. Through discussions with network administrators and analysis of configuration data, we describe how three university campuses and one academic department use VLANs to achieve a variety of goals. We argue that VLANs are ill-suited to some of these goals (e.g., VLANs are often used to realize access control policies, but constrain the types of policies that can be expressed). Furthermore, the use of VLANs leads to significant complexity in the configuration of network devices.},
	keywords = {academic department, campus network, educational computing, Educational institutions, Ethernet scalability, Local area networks, network policy support, university campus, virtual LAN usage, VLAN},
	isbn = {0163-6804},
	doi = {10.1109/MCOM.2011.5936161},
	author = {Yu,Minlan and Rexford,J. and Sun,Xin and Rao,Sanjay and Feamster, Nick}
}
