FDDI-a high speed data highway for warship system integration

The authors propose a shipwide local area network (LAN) to integrate weapons, sensors, command and control, external/ internal communications, and damage control. They describe a two-stage hierarchical network with the fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) as a backbone to interconnect diverse systems on the ship. The standard configuration management (CFM) of FDDI has been suitably modified to evolve a BY-PASS architecture that can survive loss of multiple network components. Performance of the modified network in terms of delay characteristics for voice, data, and video is presented along with its survivability analysis