A highly adaptive media access protocol for dual bus metropolitan area networks

Author

Liebeherr, Jörg ; Akyildiz, Ian F.

Author_Institution

Div. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

9-12 Jun 1992

Firstpage

186

Lastpage

193

Abstract

A protocol for dual bus networks that does not show the disadvantages inherent in the IEEE 802.6 standard for metropolitan area networks is proposed. The protocol obtains a fair distribution of bandwidth after a time equal to one round-trip delay and allows a full utilization of the available bandwidth. The protocol is derived from a fair and waste-free bandwidth allocation scheme. The features of the protocol can be included in the existing IEEE 802.6 standard. It is shown that the proposed protocol has significant performance advantages over the IEEE 802.6 standard

Keywords

metropolitan area networks; performance evaluation; protocols; IEEE 802.6 standard; distribution of bandwidth; dual bus metropolitan area networks; highly adaptive media access protocol; round-trip delay; waste-free bandwidth allocation; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Communication standards; Computer networks; Computer science; Data communication; Delay effects; Media Access Protocol; Metropolitan area networks; Optical fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1992., Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2865-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.1992.235040

Filename

235040