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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1998
Mark R. Nusekabel, Tampa, FL (US);
Heidi Strayer, Plant City, FL (US);
Kenneth Jussi Christensen, Tampa, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention provides that each of the components (i.e., switches, LAN segments, and workstations) is treated as a node for placement in a tree structure topology, with one switch at the top of the tree. Each switch may have other switches or LAN segments connected to it, with each LAN segment having a plurality of workstations attached to it. The workstations are the leaf nodes of the tree and cannot have anything connected to them. The inventive method for determining optimal partitioning is to calculate the mean switch delay, the mean segment delay, and the standard deviation as a function of the total number of workstations in the network, and to sum the values together. Finally, the invention applies a Tabu Search to the potential tree-structured solutions to the problem in order to rapidly and accurately determine the optimal network configuration.