Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)

Volume 11, Number 09, June 2021

Framework for Enterprise Local Area Network Design: an Object-Connectivity Approach

  Authors

Sunil Seneviratne1 and Rohan de Silva2, 1Central Queensland University Melbourne, Australia, 2Central Queensland University Sydney, Australia

  Abstract

Local Area Networks (LANs) provide necessary infrastructure and services required for organizations to conduct their businesses efficiently and securely. While a small LAN could be designed and deployed in ad-hoc fashion, an enterprise LAN should be designed systematically starting from analyzing the business and technical requirements and constraints.

The Top-down network design methodology has been an excellent way to design a new network, however it has disadvantages considering its time-consuming process of designing networks. The organizational structures change in a fast pace in these days. These changes require their networks also to be realigned at the same pace. In this climate, a time-consuming design approach such as the Top-down design approach may not be the best option.

In this paper, we propose a framework of a network design methodology that could be used for quickly designing a LAN for an organization in this landscape while satisfying their business and technical requirements.

  Keywords

LAN, Network design, Object-connectivity, Top- down network design.