A high speed access protocol for LANs and WANs

Author

Schaffa, F. ; Willebeek-LeMair, M. ; Patel, B.

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

29 Nov-2 Dec 1993

Firstpage

1100

Abstract

A demand driven access (ADDA) protocol for a dual ring architecture with spatial reuse is presented. The proposed protocol is simple and distributed. Under light load conditions, the arbitration mechanism is dormant and allows for efficient use of the available bandwidth since no overhead is incurred. The spatial reuse of the ring considerably increases the potential throughput of the network. The ADDA protocol, via simulation, is shown to outperform FDDI and MetaRing both in terms of throughput and access delay

Keywords

channel capacity; demand assigned multiple access; local area networks; network topology; performance evaluation; protocols; wide area networks; ADDA protocol; LAN; WAN; access delay; arbitration mechanism; available bandwidth; demand driven access protocol; dual ring architecture; high speed access protocol; load conditions; potential throughput; spatial reuse; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Counting circuits; Cyclic redundancy check; Delay; FDDI; Local area networks; Optical fiber LAN; Throughput; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1993, including a Communications Theory Mini-Conference. Technical Program Conference Record, IEEE in Houston. GLOBECOM '93., IEEE

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0917-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1993.318246

Filename

318246