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- From: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- Subject: Reverse Multiplexing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.153648.1194@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:36:48 GMT
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- Reverse Multiplexing:
-
- OK, I will attempt to define a reverse multiplexing procedure for
- cell relay.
-
-
- Reverse multiplexing over cell relay should be able to distribute a cell
- stream over disjoint parallel paths toward a common destination, where
- the cell stream is re-ordered and delivered to the desktop. The
- algorithm for finding the total common flow over parallel paths to
- a common point has two phases; 1) Find the parallel paths going in
- the forward direction, and 2) Augmenting these paths with local flows
- which go operate in the backward direction but contribute to the overall
- flow. (See any text on graph theory). To simplify the discussion let
- us consider only the parallel, forward flows.
-
- Place some embedded reverse multiplexing processors at common regions
- of the wide area network, and connect these with some set of virtual
- paths used for out of band communication. Any of the distributed
- processes can find a set of parallel flows to any other using a wave
- which operates similar to the wave based source routing, but splits
- in parallel at each node during the search process, and collects all
- parallel routes, returning them in the wave syntax for further operation.
-
- The reverse multiplexors then present these parallel paths as a single
- path to some higher order process. Any desktop, (or another protocol
- specific router) can find virtual paths using the reverse multiplexors.
-
- Upon usage, the reverse multiplexors using their pre computed paths would
- reserve bandwidth on each of the parallel routes, using the same bandwidth
- reservation process mentioned in a previous post. Simultaneously, the
- virtual path tables would be updated, (unless the paths are permanently
- connected).
-
- Over the out of band control net, the multiplexors would exchange an
- ordering table which lets the receiver re-order the cells incoming over
- multiple paths, then forward the cell stream to the final destination.
- This re-ordering table would be exchanged after the bandwidth reservation
- process since some off the pre-computed paths may not have available
- bandwidth and would be left out of the current message exchange.
-
- The entire process operates at the cell level, never assembling the
- message to look at the network layer as an embedded router would do.
-
- Key components:
-
- * Use of an embedded processor.
- * Out of band control system.
- * Use of wave to implement distributed protocol and gain access to
- path tables.
- * Re-use of the serial path and bandwidth control schemes in a parallel
- algorithm.
- * Helps the cell relay to expand into sub-T1 market.
-