A metropolitan area network based on asynchronous time sharing

Author

Lazar, Aurel A. ; Temple, Adam ; Gidron, Rafael

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Unv., New York, NY, USA

fYear

1989

Firstpage

630

Abstract

A metropolitan area network is described that guarantees quality of service on the hardware level. The network supports three classes of traffic. Switching is based on the principle of asynchronous time sharing, i.e., the three traffic classes enter any switch fabric sequentially. The system architecture consists of a set of generic switch fabrics that are implemented as buses, rings, or link schedulers. A switching node typically consists of a ring that interconnects a set of access buses; these nodes are interconnected via T3/DS3 links. A flexible hardware design that supports the traffic control architecture in order to guarantee the quality of service as negotiated at call setup is also presented

Keywords

computer networks; protocols; MAN; T3/DS3 links; asynchronous time sharing; buses; computer networks; link schedulers; metropolitan area network; rings; switching node; system architecture; traffic; traffic control architecture; Fabrics; Hardware; Magnetic separation; Metropolitan area networks; Quality of service; Scheduling; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Time sharing computer systems; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1989. ICC '89, BOSTONICC/89. Conference record. 'World Prosperity Through Communications', IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1989.49771

Filename

49771