Consideration of a Slot Access Method for Backbone Local Area Networks
Abstract The standardization of LANs has been fundamentally completed by IEEE, and recently, high-speed backbone local area networks (BLANs) for integrated services (voice, video and data) are actively studied. This paper proposes a new slot access method for BLANs. The proposed method improves ring topology efficiency and increases throughput using slot concatenation and multi-slot access. System applications and the performance are also discussed.