A New Adaptive Prioritization and Fail-Over Mechanism for Ring Network Adapter

This paper presents a new adaptive prioritization and fail-over mechanism for ring network adapters (RNA). Owing to the use of a shared medium in the structure of ring networks, management of network resources is very important and cannot completely be fulfilled by fixed priority strategies. An adap...

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Main Authors: Amin Khalilzadegan, Mohammad Zarei, Khayrollah Hadidi
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Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
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description This paper presents a new adaptive prioritization and fail-over mechanism for ring network adapters (RNA). Owing to the use of a shared medium in the structure of ring networks, management of network resources is very important and cannot completely be fulfilled by fixed priority strategies. An adaptive prioritization mechanism for efficient utilization of network resources is proposed in this paper. Hop-Count and the distance between source and destination are the key parameters that are included in the priority assignment procedure. Unlike the conventional ones, the arrived traffic is not put blindly into the queues thanks to the awareness of stations form status of each other. The newly introduced fail-over mechanism is based on the Power over Ethernet concept. Each station monitors the heartbeat of its neighbors and tries to keep them alive by providing their minimum required electrical power whenever a fault occurs. By doing so, not only single failure but also any successive double failure scenarios cannot disrupt data path continuity. Several simulations are carried out to assess the behavior and performance of the proposed methods in OPNET Modeler. Moreover, a high-speed USB test board is designed using Xilinx-Spartan6-lx9 FPGA to experimentally verify the performance of the proposed mechanisms.
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spelling doaj-art-8c6cd0bbc8bd435681e4f577bb5b52842025-08-20T03:31:21ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-018990709908210.1109/ACCESS.2020.29977649099779A New Adaptive Prioritization and Fail-Over Mechanism for Ring Network AdapterAmin Khalilzadegan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7729-0136Mohammad Zarei1Khayrollah Hadidi2Microelectronics Research Laboratory, Urmia University, Urmia, IranMicroelectronics Research Laboratory, Urmia University, Urmia, IranMicroelectronics Research Laboratory, Urmia University, Urmia, IranThis paper presents a new adaptive prioritization and fail-over mechanism for ring network adapters (RNA). Owing to the use of a shared medium in the structure of ring networks, management of network resources is very important and cannot completely be fulfilled by fixed priority strategies. An adaptive prioritization mechanism for efficient utilization of network resources is proposed in this paper. Hop-Count and the distance between source and destination are the key parameters that are included in the priority assignment procedure. Unlike the conventional ones, the arrived traffic is not put blindly into the queues thanks to the awareness of stations form status of each other. The newly introduced fail-over mechanism is based on the Power over Ethernet concept. Each station monitors the heartbeat of its neighbors and tries to keep them alive by providing their minimum required electrical power whenever a fault occurs. By doing so, not only single failure but also any successive double failure scenarios cannot disrupt data path continuity. Several simulations are carried out to assess the behavior and performance of the proposed methods in OPNET Modeler. Moreover, a high-speed USB test board is designed using Xilinx-Spartan6-lx9 FPGA to experimentally verify the performance of the proposed mechanisms.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9099779/Ring networkweighted fair queuingnode failurefail-over mechanismpower over Ethernet
spellingShingle Amin Khalilzadegan
Mohammad Zarei
Khayrollah Hadidi
A New Adaptive Prioritization and Fail-Over Mechanism for Ring Network Adapter
IEEE Access
Ring network
weighted fair queuing
node failure
fail-over mechanism
power over Ethernet
title A New Adaptive Prioritization and Fail-Over Mechanism for Ring Network Adapter
title_full A New Adaptive Prioritization and Fail-Over Mechanism for Ring Network Adapter
title_fullStr A New Adaptive Prioritization and Fail-Over Mechanism for Ring Network Adapter
title_full_unstemmed A New Adaptive Prioritization and Fail-Over Mechanism for Ring Network Adapter
title_short A New Adaptive Prioritization and Fail-Over Mechanism for Ring Network Adapter
title_sort new adaptive prioritization and fail over mechanism for ring network adapter
topic Ring network
weighted fair queuing
node failure
fail-over mechanism
power over Ethernet
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9099779/
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