PARALLEL PROTOCOL IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR
High Speed Networks · 1990
The development of high speed networks with datq rates of 100 Mbit/s and more as well as the design of advanced applications impose new quirements on the performance of network nodes. This paper describes an approach to overcome the upcoming processing. bottleneck of communication protocols. The approach is based on the use of multiprocessor architectures. Several parallel concepts inside network nodes like pipeline and array constructs are outlined and different memory concepts are suggested. Performance measurements of protocol implementations on Transputer networks following the proposed parallel concepts indicate very promising performance results.