A High Performance Fault-Tolerant Dual-LAN with the Dual-Path Ethernet Module

Jihoon PARK  Jongkyu PARK  Ilseok HAN  Hagbae KIM  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E85-B   No.12   pp.2880-2886
Publication Date: 2002/12/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
Dual-LAN,  dual-path ethernet,  high availability,  fault tolerant,  fault detection,  

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Summary: 
The network duplicating can achieve significant improvements of the Local Area Network (LAN)'s performance, availability, and security. For LAN duplicating, a Dual-Path Ethernet Module (DPEM) is developed. Since a DPEM is simply located at the front end of any network device as a transparent add-on type independent hardware machine, it does not require sophisticated server reconfiguration. We examine the desirable properties and the characteristics on the Dual-LAN structure. Our evaluation results show that the developed scheme is more efficient than the conventional Single-LAN structures in various aspects.