Description / Abstract:
A fault tolerant, real time high speed data communication standard is
defined based on a ring
topology and the use of a Token passing access method with distributed
control. The requirements
for the HSRB standard have been driven predominantly, but not
exclusively, by military
applications. Particular attention has been given to the need for low
message latency,
deterministic message priority and comprehensive reconfiguration
capabilities. This document
contains a definition of the semantics and protocol including
delimiters, tokens, message priority,
addressing, error detection and recovery schemes; and is written to be
independent of bit rate and
media. Parameters related to particular media and bit rates are
defined in the Appendix.