Engineering Research Equipment Grant:  An Experimental      Communication Protocol Facility
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A hardware support system will be provided for research in the fields           of communication protocols and local area networks.  The workstations           for this project are all rackmountable SUN-2/170's.  The SUN-2 master           provides the main user interface applications such as controlling and           monitoring.  Extensions to the existing VAX11/750 are required to               connect into the backbone Ethernet Laboratory equipment to test custom          hardware for node controllers, and a channel evaluation is requested.           The Quad-Node SUN-2 host is required to add a cluster of four nodes and         their channel emulator to the facility.  Start-up studies using the             facility would deal with performance evaluation and comparison of               existing Local Area Network protocols, such as CSMA/CD and Token Ring,          which are relatively well understood.  It is planned to study traffic           integration, the ISDN S-interface Passive Bus and Extended Passive Bus,         and preliminaries of Metropolitan Area Networks.  Additional research           would address bandwidth allocation problems on an optical network               (using scaling), double counter-rotating ring architectures, and                construction of future ISDN local loop.
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{'Code': '1453', 'Text': 'COMMU SYSTEMS & SIGNAL PROCESS'}
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