A unified algorithm for designing multidrop teleprocessing networks
DATACOMM '73 Proceedings of the third ACM symposium on Data communications and Data networks: Analysis and design
Reliability problems in data communications systems
SIGCOMM '77 Proceedings of the fifth symposium on Data communications
A Damage- and Fault-Tolerant Input/Output Network
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Effective use of data communications hardware
AFIPS '74 Proceedings of the May 6-10, 1974, national computer conference and exposition
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Most terminals utilize transmission lines only a small fraction of the time. They send and receive messages intermittently, and the message transmission time usually lasts no more than a few seconds. A common method to efficiently utilize transmission line capacity is to connect several terminals onto one line so that the line can be shared. Lines so structured are called multidrop or multipoint lines. A typical teleprocessing network configuration is shown. With rare exceptions, the multidrop lines are in tree-like structures [1], [2].