FISHNET: A Distributed Control Local Area Network

摘要

This paper presents a new distributed architecture for Local Area Networks (LANs). FISHNET (Facilities Integrated in a Shared Habitat NETwork)addresses the problem of integrating a wide variety of computers, terminals, memory devices, and computer peripherals in a local environment. High performance is maintained by separating high volume node-to-node data communications and low volume broadcast mode control information. Data travels a circuit composed of node-to-node links. Control commands are transmitted independently on a control bus. The fully distributed control mechanism allows rapid establishment of routing paths and a high degree of concurrent data transmission.FISHNET has been simulated and compared to DLCN and the Jafari loop. Significant performance improvements have been found.