Abstract
RPR (Resilient Packet Ring) is a protocol proposed for the efficient delivery of frames over the metro network and is required to provide the bridging functionality for the interconnection of other external LANs. To do this, the node with the RPR capability should broadcast frames received from external networks to the entire RPR network. Since the RPR is proposed to operate in a metro network, most of RPR nodes are not hosts but bridges. Therefore broadcasting of all frames from external networks may significantly deteriorate the performance of the RPR network. In this paper, we propose a mechanism in which an RPR bridge node can efficiently support the bridging functionality by using a cache table with the information on external nodes.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 635-642 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
Volume | 3398 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2005 |
Event | Third Asian Simulation Conference, Asiasim 2004 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of Duration: 4 Oct 2004 → 6 Oct 2004 |