Paper Details

@InProceedings{SarrafanWelch90,
  title = "{T}ransputer models for a high-performance local area network bridge",
  author= "Sarrafan, A. M. and Welch, Peter H.",
  editor= "Turner, Stephen J.",
  pages = "111--121",
  booktitle= "{OUG}-12: {T}ools and {T}echniques for {T}ransputer {A}pplications",
  isbn= "90 5199 029 4",
  year= "1990",
  month= "mar",
  abstract= "Bridges interconnecting Local Area Networks can experience
     heavy loads. Traditional implementations of such devices
     have typically achieved high throughput rates by
     implementing the device at low protocol levels, thus keeping
     the functionality of the device quite simple in nature. For
     bridges that are required to have a higher degree of
     intelligence and for gateways between different networking
     technologies (which must be implemented at higher protocol
     levels), the problem is to maintain high throughput rates in
     a processing intensive component This paper describes an
     expandable and parallel solution to the problem. The
     methodology is demonstrated in an occam implementation of a
     Cambridge Ring bridge. The prototype is tested on several
     different transputer configurations and the results are
     reported. To put the figures into context, performance
     figures for an equivalent sequential implementation,
     currently operational at the University of Kent, are also
     quoted."
}

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