An integrated services protocol for Ethernets

Author

Wong, C.F. ; Wong, P.C.

Author_Institution

Adv. Network Syst. Lab., Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Volume

1

fYear

1993

fDate

6-11 Sep 1993

Firstpage

83

Abstract

A new integrated services protocol is proposed for Ethernets to support synchronous traffic (e.g. voice) in addition to data traffic. The new protocol is compatible with the Ethernet protocol in the sense that data stations may use existing Ethernet adapters while voice stations can be supported by adding new adapters. The protocol allows voice stations to have a higher channel access priority than data stations, and by using two counters to record the number of active voice stations, the protocol can avoid the contention among the voice stations. Given that existing Ethernets have only 5 to 10% utilization, the authors show that the spare capacity of Ethernet is sufficient for supporting more than 100 active voice stations without any degradation of the data delay performance

Keywords

ISDN; access protocols; channel capacity; delays; local area networks; performance evaluation; Ethernets; active voice stations; capacity; channel access priority; contention avoidance; counters; data delay performance; integrated services protocol; synchronous traffic; utilization; Access protocols; Data engineering; Degradation; Delay; Ethernet networks; Intserv networks; Laboratories; Multiaccess communication; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 1993. International Conference on Information Engineering '93. 'Communications and Networks for the Year 2000', Proceedings of IEEE Singapore International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1445-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICON.1993.515732

Filename

515732