Resource Management is an extremely important concern for the network manager. Of the bus, ring and the star network topologies, usually employed in a local area network, the bus topology provides the highest reliability. However, peer-to-peer protocols usually followed in such a topology, make it extremely difficult to incorporate resource management features at a lower level of network architecture.
This thesis presents design considerations for a session-level network controller, to be implemented on a local area network with a bus topology. The controller, will provide essential resource management, and attempt to improve the throughput of the network. The design is based on a single-board computer, and a streamlined operating system is also included in the design. It is claimed that such an environment will be ideal for networking tasks, like the controller presented. The design is software-oriented, though device selection is discussed, both for the controller and its network interface. The local area network used for the development of this project is a sixteen hundred node campus network at Virginia Tech ( using LocalNet 20) supplied by SYTEK, Inc. / M.S.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/106079 |
| Date | January 1986 |
| Creators | Chatterjee, Aditya Narayan |
| Contributors | Electrical Engineering |
| Publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | viii, 113 [ie. 251] leaves, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 14050999 |
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