摘要:
A rights controlling concentrator (RCC) is an apparatus for separating and controlling "rights of receiving" and "rights of transmitting" of a group of stations or groups of stations on a ring-of-trees local area network. RCC elements perform collectively to separately control, limit and/or make available the "rights of receiving" and the "rights of transmitting" of a group of stations or groups of stations. This ensures that its membership is only forwarded frames transmitted by an external station which has a destination within the membership, and that the external stations only be forwarded frames transmitted by the membership which have a destination within the membership, and that the external stations only be forwarded frames transmitted by the membership which have a destination within the external stations. Frames that are transmitted to a destination in one group traverse only stations within that group. Frames that are deemed by the RCC not to be of interest to any group of stations are withheld from that group by the RCC controlling both frame receiving and transmitting rights. This significantly reduces the workload of groups of stations, because frames are not passed through station groups that are not necessary for the frames to reach their destination. Furthermore, since data frames are handled by fewer stations, the reliability of the main FDDI ring is increased.
摘要:
A rights controlling concentrator (RCC) is an apparatus for separating and controlling "rights of receiving" and "rights of transmitting" of a group of stations or groups of stations on a ring-of-trees local area network. RCC elements perform collectively to separately control, limit and/or make available the "rights of receiving" and the "rights of transmitting" of a group of stations or groups of stations. This ensures that its membership is only forwarded frames transmitted by an external station which has a destination within the membership, and that the external stations only be forwarded frames transmitted by the membership which have a destination within the membership, and that the external stations only be forwarded frames transmitted by the membership which have a destination within the external stations. Frames that are transmitted to a destination in one group traverse only stations within that group. Frames that are deemed by the RCC not to be of interest to any group of stations are withheld from that group by the RCC controlling both frame receiving and transmitting rights. This significantly reduces the workload of groups of stations, because frames are not passed through station groups that are not necessary for the frames to reach their destination. Furthermore, since data frames are handled by fewer stations, the reliability of the main FDDI ring is increased.