A fail safe temporary reorganization procedure for STARMAP routing tables in the event of a primary hub or link failure

Author

Pang, Vincent Yeow Chieh ; Irvine-Halliday, Dave

Author_Institution

Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

26-29 May 1996

Firstpage

976

Abstract

The challenge for STARMAP was to implement a simple temporary reorganization of the routing tables which would maintain the maximum interconnectivity of the network in the event of a primary link or hub failure. Since the original STARMAP packet switching or routing philosophy requires that a hub be responsible only for its own packets and that it needs no knowledge of events at any other hub then the routing table reorganization scheme must follow a similar philosophy. A primary hub routing table is changed in a very simple manner if it detects a failed transmission in one of its outlinks. The routing table is returned to its original condition as soon as the failed link or hub has been repaired

Keywords

access protocols; computer network reliability; local area networks; packet switching; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network routing; LAN; STARMAP; active star multiple access protocol; fail safe temporary reorganization procedure; failed transmission; maximum network interconnectivity; packet switching; primary hub failure; primary link failure; routing tables; Access protocols; Broadcasting; Collision avoidance; Computer networks; Delay effects; Local area networks; Packet switching; Routing; Testing; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1996. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Calgary, Alta.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3143-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1996.548317

Filename

548317