Title :
On performance characteristics of LAN interfaces with PING/PONG buffers
Author_Institution :
Adv. Technol. Syst., IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC
Abstract :
The authors consider a front end system consisting of a number of source stations generating LAN traffic; a queue to accommodate the transmission delays; and a number of ping/pong buffers, one for each LAN connection, served by the internal bus of the front-end processor. An incoming frame segment at a front end interface is assumed to be lost if there is no buffer available to store the segment. An algorithm is developed and used to investigate the performance characteristics of the ping/pong buffering scheme
Keywords :
computer interfaces; local area networks; performance evaluation; queueing theory; LAN connection; LAN interfaces; LAN traffic; frame segment; front end interface; front end system; front-end processor; internal bus; performance characteristics; ping/pong buffers; queue; source stations; transmission delays; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Buffer storage; Character generation; Delay; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Token networks; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, 1991. Proceedings., 16th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2370-5
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.1991.208109
