A Scalable Residential Area Network Architecture Supporting HD-Quality Content Distribution

• Published in: 2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Sungwook Chung, Eunsam Kim, Liu, J.C.L.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.01.2009
• Subjects: Buildings; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Information science; Network topology; Optical fiber devices; Scalability; Switches; TV broadcasting

The feasibility of the residential area network architecture has been proposed, combined with personal video recorders (PVRs) and the fiber channel-arbitration loop (FC-AL) connection. However, the single-loop FC-AL-based architecture has the limitation on scalability. That is, the architecture only...