发明名称 |
FAULT-TOLERANT NETWORKING |
摘要 |
<p>Methods and apparatus for implementation of fault-tolerant networks provide a network fault-tolerance manager for detecting failures and manipulating a node to communicate with an active channel. Failure detection incorporates one or more methods, including message pair and link pulse detection. Failure recovery includes switching all node data communications to a stand-by channel or switching just those nodes detecting a failure. Communication between nodes provides the distributed detection, with detecting nodes reporting failures to their network fault-tolerance manager and the network fault-tolerance manager broadcasting the failure recovery to all nodes. The network fault-tolerance manager is middleware, residing with each node in a logical hierarchy above a physical layer of a network and below a transport layer of the network. The approach is particularly suited to Ethernet LANs and capable of using commercial off-the-shelf network components.</p> |
申请公布号 |
EP1129563(B1) |
申请公布日期 |
2004.12.15 |
申请号 |
EP19990953092 |
申请日期 |
1999.10.07 |
申请人 |
HONEYWELL INC. |
发明人 |
HUANG, JIANDONG;LI, LING;SONG, SEJUN |
分类号 |
H04L12/40;H04L12/28;H04L12/44;H04L29/06;H04L29/14;(IPC1-7):H04L12/28;H04L12/24 |
主分类号 |
H04L12/40 |
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