| 摘要 |
In each of a plurality of subscriber systems included in a B-ISDN for controlling access competition among a plurality of terminals under the DQDB protocol, the terminals (13) are electrically connected to a dual bus comprising a downbus (2a) and an upbus (2b) both extending from a network terminal (1). Each of the terminals has data transmission processing means (8), downbus processing means (10a), upbus processing means (10b), a timer (11) and failure detecting means (12). When data transmission request is issued from the data transmission processing means (8), the failure detecting means (12) is activated in response to this request to start the timer (12) so as to count a given time interval which has elapsed. If either a request message or data cannot be sent even when the timer takes time out, then the failure detecting means (8) determines that a failure has occurred in the dual bus. <IMAGE> |
