An efficient heuristic methodology to design switched LANs

Author

Pallarès-Segarra, Esteve ; García-Haro, Joan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telematics Eng., Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

192

Abstract

Present and future telecommunication networks have to integrate a great variety of services including multimedia services, which require a considerable amount of bandwidth. In this scenario, local area networks (LAN) that originally were shared medium networks had become switched networks offering a higher capacity for the links connecting switches. We propose a heuristic methodology to design the topology of a switched LAN depending on the characteristics of the integrated traffic carried by the network. The traffic is modeled as a fluid-flow generated by a group of heterogeneous on/off sources and the quality of service constraint is the information loss probability

Keywords

local area networks; network topology; probability; quality of service; switched networks; telecommunication traffic; QoS; efficient heuristic methodology; fluid-flow; heterogeneous on/off sources; information loss probability; integrated traffic; local area networks; multimedia services; quality of service constraint; shared medium networks; switched LAN design; switched LAN topology; switched networks; telecommunication networks; Bandwidth; Design methodology; Joining processes; Local area networks; Quality of service; Switches; Telecommunication network topology; Telecommunication switching; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2001. PACRIM. 2001 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7080-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.2001.953555

Filename

953555