Title :
On-time timed-token protocol
Author :
Cobb, Jorge A. ; Lin, Miaohua
Author_Institution :
Center for Adv. Telecommun. Syst. & Services, Texas Univ., Richardson, TX, USA
Abstract :
The token protocols of FDDI and FDDI-M support both synchronous and asynchronous traffic. However, FDDI suffers from a token-lateness problem, and FDDI-M may starve asynchronous traffic. To remove these two weaknesses, we propose the on-time timed-token protocol. Its main feature is the addition of information to the token that allows a station to determine whether the early arrival of a token is due to unused synchronous bandwidth or unused asynchronous bandwidth. We present a synchronous bandwidth allocation scheme for this protocol, and comparison is made against FDDI and FDDI-M.
Keywords :
FDDI; bandwidth allocation; telecommunication traffic; token networks; FDDI; FDDI networks; FDDI-M; asynchronous bandwidth; asynchronous traffic; on-time timed-token protocol; synchronous bandwidth allocation; synchronous traffic; token arrival; token-lateness problem; Bandwidth; Channel allocation; FDDI; Protocols; Repeaters; Telecommunication traffic; Token networks; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002. GLOBECOM '02. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7632-3
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2002.1189033
