PHILAN: a LAN providing a reliable message service for distributed processing

Author

Kessels, Joep L W

Author_Institution

Philips Res. Lab., Eindhoven, Netherlands

Volume

14

Issue

10

fYear

1988

fDate

10/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1424

Lastpage

1431

Abstract

A local area network (LAN) design based on a ring topology is presented which can support both packet-switched and circuit-switched traffic. The packet-switching service is reliable in that the LAN controllers deal with all protocol problems, i.e., medium arbitrations as well as flow and error control. The service can meet real-time constraints, since the performance is stable under high load conditions and the arbitration delays are bounded. Moreover, the processing speed of the LAN controller is independent of the transmission speed, and the speed requirements are such that they can be met by a microprocessor (no need for dedicated hardware to process the information on the fly). Before the design of PHILAN is presented, an analysis is given of the protocol problems that have to be dealt with when establishing a reliable packet-switching service on a LAN

Keywords

local area networks; packet switching; protocols; LAN; PHILAN; circuit-switched; distributed processing; local area network; packet-switched; packet-switching; processing speed; protocol; real-time constraints; reliable message service; ring topology; Circuit topology; Communication system traffic control; Delay; Error correction; Hardware; Local area networks; Message service; Microprocessors; Network topology; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.6187

Filename

6187