Title :
Simulation and analysis of circuit-switched playthrough rings
Author :
Silio, Charles B., Jr. ; Ghafir, Hatem M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
The authors consider queuing delay versus throughput performance for playthrough rings. The playthrough data-link-layer protocol is a multiserver distributed control mechanism that allows concurrent message transfer. They present simulation data comparing performance for four queuing disciplines. They also present a simple analysis to predict the throughput value at which the queuing system saturates. A comparison is made of analytical and simulation results for both playthrough and token, and the average performance of playthrough rings is found to be superior.<>
Keywords :
local area networks; protocols; LAN; circuit-switched playthrough rings; concurrent message transfer; data-link-layer protocol; multiserver distributed control; queuing delay; throughput; Analytical models; Circuit analysis; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Delay; Logic; Protocols; Queueing analysis; Registers; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1988. ICC '88. Digital Technology - Spanning the Universe. Conference Record., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA, USA
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1988.13741
