S. Casale et al., A REMOTE BRIDGING TECHNIQUE TO INCREASE PERFORMABILITY IN DISTRIBUTEDSYSTEMS, IEEE transactions on industrial electronics, 41(2), 1994, pp. 182-190
The paper presents a network architecture and protocol to extend the f
acilities available on LAN's to a wider area. The proposal, based on a
remote bridging technique, allows selective network reconfiguration a
nd consequently high network availability and performability values. T
his make the system suitable for applications in environments characte
rized by hard reliability constraints. The proposed solution is assess
ed by modeling it through Markov chain theory.