Fault-tolerant capacity-1 protocol for very fast local networks

Wlodek Dobosiewicz; Pawel Gburzynski

doi:10.1117/12.44845

1 August 1991 Fault-tolerant capacity-1 protocol for very fast local networks

Wlodek Dobosiewicz, Pawel Gburzynski

Proceedings Volume 1470, Data Structures and Target Classification; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.44845
Event: Orlando '91, 1991, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

A substantial amount of attention has been paid recently to DQDB--a proposed bus architecture and MAC-level protocol for fast local and metropolitan area networks. The main advantage of this solution over previous concepts is in the fact that the performance of DQDB does not degrade with the increasing value of a--the ratio of the packet length to the propagation length of the bus expressed in bits. The big value of a characterizes networks that are either long geographically or very fast, or both. Thus, at the threshold of the forthcoming era of very high transmission rates and increasing demands for wide-area networks with the functionality of LANs, DQDB has been enthusiastically received by the networking community. DQDB's disadvantages can be stresses in the following two points: (1) The flexibility of the network is limited: each station must know the relative location on the bus of every other station. (2) The network is susceptible for faults: the failure of one of the extreme stations or disconnection of one bus segment makes it totally inoperable. In this paper, a capacity-1 network inspired by the DQDB concept which attempts to eliminate the above disadvantages of original DQDB is proposed. The solution is based on the UU-BUS topology, i.e., a network consisting of two separate, folded, unidirectional busses.

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Wlodek Dobosiewicz and Pawel Gburzynski "Fault-tolerant capacity-1 protocol for very fast local networks", Proc. SPIE 1470, Data Structures and Target Classification, (1 August 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.44845

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