Redundant Ring Structures for Shipboard Distributed Computer Systems

Abstract

The potential constraints on a ring structured distributed computing system imposed by the shipboard environment were discussed. The feasibility of increasing distributed ring system availability to meet the requirements were investigated. It was shown that with a multiply linked ring structure, shipboard environmental effects would not severely degrade successful operation of a distributed system. This finding could result in the utilization of distributed ring computing systems with suitably redundant data path schemes as a highly reliable general purpose data processing system on shipboard platforms. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA035886

Entities

People

  • Peter Burgess Snyder

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Availability
  • Communication Networks
  • Communications Protocols
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Data Transmission
  • Digital Communications
  • Distributed Computing
  • Electronic Components
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Operating Systems
  • Reliability
  • Standards
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.
  • Statistical inference.