Title :
A dynamic high speed multi-media local area network (MLAN) protocol architecture
Author :
Agrawal, Jagan P. ; Varshney, Upkar
Author_Institution :
Missouri Univ., Kansas City, MO, USA
Abstract :
The design of a multimedia LAN (MLAN) protocol using a broadcast bus system topology suitable for a campus environment is considered. It minimizes the bus access time by using an advanced reservation technique, and accommodates requests for several packet sizes expressed in multiples of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell size. The architecture presented assumes a MLAN speed of 50 Mb/s, and can be easily extended to the STS-3 signal bit rate of 150 Mb/s. The bus access techniques, bandwidth allocation for various types of traffic, clock synchronization, etc. are monitored and changed/adjusted dynamically according to traffic conditions on the bus
Keywords :
asynchronous transfer mode; local area networks; multimedia systems; network interfaces; protocols; 50 to 150 Mbit/s; ATM; asynchronous transfer mode; bandwidth allocation; broadcast bus system topology; bus access techniques; clock synchronization; design; dynamic high speed MLAN protocol architecture; multimedia LAN protocol; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bit rate; Channel allocation; Clocks; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Local area networks; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Network topology;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference, 1992. MILCOM '92, Conference Record. Communications - Fusing Command, Control and Intelligence., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0585-X
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.1992.243956
