A proposal for a metropolitan area network with priority for the synchronous traffic
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Motoyama, S.; Arantes, M.P.C.; Bonatti, I.S.
- Source
- 1993 4th Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems Distributed computing systems Distributed Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Future Trends of. :449-453 1993
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Proposals
Metropolitan area networks
FDDI
Standardization
Telecommunication traffic
Traffic control
Investments
Costs
Telephony
B-ISDN
- Language
An alternative metropolitan area network (MAN) is proposed. Unlike the current MAN standardization, such as FDDI (fiber distributed data interface) or DQDB (distributed queueing dual bus), the proposed network gives priority to the synchronous traffic (voice) and uses a distributed digital switching technique. The objective of this kind of network is to reduce the initial investment cost of a telephone local network that has customers spread over a large area. The network is flexible enough to be compatible with emerging B-ISDN, according to the international trend. The proposed network configuration and the access control protocol are discussed here. The mathematical modeling and the performance analysis of the network are also presented.ETX