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

fYear

1992

fDate

11-14 Oct 1992

Firstpage

1011

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1992.243956

Filename

243956