METANET: principles of an arbitrary topology LAN

Author

Ofek, Yoram ; Yung, Moti

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Volume

3

Issue

2

fYear

1995

fDate

4/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

180

Abstract

The MetaNet is a scalable local area network (LAN) architecture with an arbitrary topology and a switch at each node (i.e., a switch based LAN). Its design provides on one hand a service in which any node can try to transmit asynchronously in a bursty manner without reservation as much as it can (as in traditional LAN), and on the other hand the network access and flow control ensure the following properties: (1) no packet loss due to congestion, (2) fair access to the network, (3) no deadlocks, and (4) self-routing with broadcast. The switching over this network requires only a (5) single buffer per input link. The MetaNet is asynchronous, distributed, and designed for transmission of fixed size cells or variable size packets. It can be viewed as a “general-topology buffer-insertion architecture with fairness,” thus generalizing the MetaRing architecture

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; buffer storage; local area networks; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; MetaNet; MetaRing architecture; arbitrary topology LAN; buffer; bursty transmission; congestion; deadlocks; fixed size cells; flow control; general-topology buffer-insertion architecture; network access control; packet loss; scalable local area network architecture; self-routing; switch based LAN; variable size packets; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Local area networks; Network topology; Propagation losses; Prototypes; Routing; Switches; System recovery; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-6692

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/90.374118

Filename

374118