On a methodology for designing adaptive local area networks

Local area networks (LAN) are subject to crashes. If a communication link goes down or a server crashes, services provided by the network become unavailable. To provide fault tolerant and fault resilient network services, LANs are required to be adaptive and reconfigurable so that they can recover from crashes by reconfiguring themselves. The paper presents an application of the adaptive team design methodology on computer networks to design adaptive reconfigurable local area networks