A novel approach to naval architecture using 1G VLAN with RSTP

Abstract

Traditional naval architecture includes all the departments concatenated into a single physical network and if it has to be separated, then physically different network is formed. This paper strives on removing the logical single network whilst maintaining the physical network intact on all the departments by implementing VLAN. Various automation systems like IBS, IPMS, CCTV, APMS and communication systems could be on the same physical network (reducing the cabling) and logically separated leading to isolation of network traffic to specified systems and smooth running of the automation systems without additional load in it, further as VLAN segment the network into different broadcast domains so the packets are only delivered between ports that are combined for the same VLAN. The latency is of key importance, to boost this up, further rapid spanning tree protocol; RSTP is used to get better results. The monitoring software; wireshark was used to compare the analysis of latency, considering real time architectural parameters.