The power of multimedia: combining point-to point and multi-access networks
Yehuda Afek, Gad M. Landau, Baruch Schieber, Moti M. Yung · 1988
In this paper we introduce a new network model called a muZtimedia network.It combines the point-to-point message passing network and the multiaccess channel.To benefit from the combination we design algorithms which consist of two stages: a local stage which utilizes the parallelism of the point-to-point network and a global stage which utilizes the broadcast capability of the multiaccess channel.As a reasonable approach, one wishes to balance the complexities of the two stages by obtaining an efficient partition of the network 'AT&T Bell Labs.