Performance study of buffering within switches in local area networks

Author

Elsaadany, Amr ; Singhal, Mukesh ; Liu, Ming T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

20-23 Sep 1995

Firstpage

451

Lastpage

455

Abstract

Today´s demanding applications, such as multimedia, require higher network transfer rates. Traditional local area networks (LANs) will not be able to provide the throughput required by these applications. The use of switches in LANs is an effective technique to increase the throughput of the network. These switches have finite buffers at their input and output ports. The size of these buffers affect the packet loss rate. It also affect the delay at the switch as packets may have to wait for the output buffer to become available. We study the effect of buffer sizes within these switches. We show how the buffer size is related to the performance of the switch as well as overall performance of the LAN

Keywords

buffer storage; electronic switching systems; local area networks; multimedia communication; packet switching; performance evaluation; queueing theory; LAN performance; buffer size; buffering; delay; input ports; local area networks; multimedia; network transfer rates; output buffer; output ports; packet loss rate; performance study; queueing model; switch performance; throughput; Application software; Communication switching; Delay; Intelligent networks; Joining processes; Local area networks; Packet switching; Streaming media; Switches; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 1995. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7180-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.1995.540158

Filename

540158