DRAON : An Intelligent Local Area Network

Ae Tadashi

Toi Tetsuya

Aibara Reiji

Takahashi Noriyasu

Proceedings of International Computer Symposium

This paper discusses the desig and fabrication of a local area network which keeps distributed systems off from system deadlocks in resource sharing with low overhead. We propose an Intelligent Network that extends the network concept in its communicaion capability. This intelligent network provides the upper layer protocols, such as transport protocol and session protocol which are normally carried out by host computers, and offers deadlock-free resource access method to its elient, i.e., a distributed operating system. The design specification of DRAON, which is a kind of entirely distributed controlled intelligent networks, is briefly introduced. DRAON ia a network of intelligent nodes each of vhich performs communication procedures with high performance, and resource lock/unlock operations in an inborn manner. Finally, a experimental resource sharing system using a prototyp-DRAON is presented as an example of applications of loosely coupled distributed computing systems.

local area network

resource sharing

system deadlock

intelligent network

distributed operating system

Electrical engineering [ 540 ]

eng