FLOW CONTROL IN THE GMD-NETWORK

One of the goals of the GMD-Network development was the design, analysis and implementation of a fully recursive set of transport protocols applying the ‘virtual line switching’ technique. This work resulted in some insights into deadlock prevention flow control and interface design problems, which are of general interest. The paper examines the GMD-Net protocols from the flow control point-of-view and presents simulation results for different aspects of the network behaviour.