Study of all-microprocessor computer communication networks

The overall problem studied was that of the organization and utilization of very large microprocessor-based computer communication networks. The first phase of this research was directed toward the actual design of microprocessor based communication networks. It was concerned with the manner in which work should be organized and in the internal structure of the physical nodes of the networks. In the second phase it was assumed (given the first phase results) that such distributed networks, containing very large numbers of nodes could indeed be constructed. The focus of attention was now on the problem of routing, and distributed processing in large, possibly dynamically varying networks.