A high performance LAN internetwork design
Chin‐Tau Lea · Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) · 1986
The author discusses the requirements of a versatile LAN internetwork design, and proposes a high-performance, fault-tolerant internetwork architecture. The major design goal is to preserve an LAN's characteristics, such as high capacity, low queuing delay, packets in sequence, low error rate, etc. , in the LAN internetworking environment so that high performance is achievable. The new architecture can support both packet and fast circuit switching. It is efficient for various applications with a wide range of channel holding times.