A novel generic gateway protection configuration applied to ATM networks

Author

Struyve, Kris ; Velde, Bart Vande ; Demeester, Piet

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Belgium

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

8-12 Jun 1997

Firstpage

1174

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to present a novel generic configuration to protect traffic against gateway failures. A gateway comprises the network resources interconnecting neighbouring sub-networks. The issue of gateway failures is relevant to both public as well as private networks where traffic may cross multiple sub-networks operated by different organisations. The proposed configuration is simple and requires only minimal co-ordination. The configuration is applied to a mesh-mesh and a ring-mesh structured ATM layer network

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; broadband networks; telecommunication network reliability; ATM networks; gateway failures; generic gateway protection configuration; mesh-mesh structured ATM layer network; minimal co-ordination; neighbouring sub-networks interconnection; network resources; private networks; public networks; ring-mesh structured ATM layer network; traffic protection; Asynchronous transfer mode; Broadband communication; Costs; Electric breakdown; Europe; Information technology; Protection; Spine; Switches; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1997. ICC '97 Montreal, Towards the Knowledge Millennium. 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3925-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1997.594976

Filename

594976