Design and implementation of a network controller for a local area network

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Electrical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1986

Author dc:creator

• Chatterjee, Aditya Narayan

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/106079

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/106079