Considerations on the Design Methods of Hierarchical Large-Scale Local Area Networks

Masato SAKATA; Yoshiaki NEMOTO; Shoichi NOGUCHI

Considerations on the Design Methods of Hierarchical Large-Scale Local Area Networks

Masato SAKATA, Yoshiaki NEMOTO, Shoichi NOGUCHI

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Tohoku University has been constructing the academic information-exchange network TAINS (Tohoku University Academic/All-round/Advanced Information Network System) to link its widely spread campuses and to meet several demands for an intrauniversity network. TAINS, the first network based on OSI, became operational in April 1988. The primary function of TAINS is to connect all the geographically dispersed locations of the university via a high-speed digital network in order to facilitate an easy and efficient interconnection among the various computers, terminals and other scientific equipment. TAINS is constructed as a large-scale local area network of hierarchical structure. In the hierarchical network of TAINS, a backbone network, consisting of two 100 Mbps optical fiber rings, interconnects several small-scale IEEE802.3 networks, each of which span a building or a part of a building. This paper describes the background, the basic design concept and the constitution of TAINS. In TAINS, the inhouse network protocol is OSI-based, and the ring network protocol is based on FDDI. The use of these communication protocols are reviewed and the protocol matching adopted for TAINS is described. Finally, a method for estimating the stable operation of a 2-layer hierarchical network using traffic analysis is given.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E74-B No.9 pp.2747-2755

Publication Date: 1991/09/25

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Masato SAKATA, Yoshiaki NEMOTO, Shoichi NOGUCHI, "Considerations on the Design Methods of Hierarchical Large-Scale Local Area Networks" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E74-B, no. 9, pp. 2747-2755, September 1991, doi: .
Abstract: Tohoku University has been constructing the academic information-exchange network TAINS (Tohoku University Academic/All-round/Advanced Information Network System) to link its widely spread campuses and to meet several demands for an intrauniversity network. TAINS, the first network based on OSI, became operational in April 1988. The primary function of TAINS is to connect all the geographically dispersed locations of the university via a high-speed digital network in order to facilitate an easy and efficient interconnection among the various computers, terminals and other scientific equipment. TAINS is constructed as a large-scale local area network of hierarchical structure. In the hierarchical network of TAINS, a backbone network, consisting of two 100 Mbps optical fiber rings, interconnects several small-scale IEEE802.3 networks, each of which span a building or a part of a building. This paper describes the background, the basic design concept and the constitution of TAINS. In TAINS, the inhouse network protocol is OSI-based, and the ring network protocol is based on FDDI. The use of these communication protocols are reviewed and the protocol matching adopted for TAINS is described. Finally, a method for estimating the stable operation of a 2-layer hierarchical network using traffic analysis is given.
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