Hybrid-Meshnet: a new-approach to mesh LANs

Author

Kang, Cheoul-Shin ; Herzog, James H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., American Univ., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

10-12 Oct 1988

Firstpage

463

Lastpage

471

Abstract

The authors introduce a communication subnet architecture, called Hybrid Meshnet, for local area networks (LANs) that is designed to achieve a high degree of network performance and flexibility. These objectives are achieved by utilizing a dual-channel structure. A token ring is used for short or prioritized data transmissions. A complementary mesh network with arbitrary data links is used for relatively high volume and low-priority data transmission. A distributed network control and routing mechanism allocates the communication network nodes. Hybrid Meshnet supports a LAN system in which the communication structure may easily be modified and changed by the insertion or deletion of data links

Keywords

local area networks; Hybrid Meshnet; LANs; communication network nodes; communication subnet architecture; complementary mesh network; distributed network control; dual-channel structure; flexibility; network performance; prioritized data transmissions; routing mechanism; Data communication; Delay; Distributed control; Floods; Local area networks; Mesh networks; Network topology; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fibers; Routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1988., Proceedings of the 13th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0891-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1988.10261

Filename

10261