Transient behavior of the FDDI protocol under heavy load

Author

Ali, Irfan ; Vastola, Kenneth S.

Author_Institution

Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

7-11 Apr 1991

Firstpage

1421

Abstract

The transient behavior of the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) protocol is analyzed, under the assumption of a heavy-load for a single asynchronous priority level. The analysis leads to a simple characterization of the asynchronous transmission times for the different stations. From this characterization, an algorithm to calculate the token rotations and times at which different stations in the ring begin to transmit asynchronous data is derived. Simulation results show that the behavior predicted by the algorithm is approached under heavy Poisson asynchronous load in the network

Keywords

optical links; protocols; standards; token networks; FDDI protocol; Fiber Distributed Data Interface; LAN; heavy Poisson asynchronous load; heavy load; local area network; single asynchronous priority level; token ring; token rotations; transient behavior; Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; Delay; FDDI; Optical fibers; Steady-state; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Traffic control; Transient analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '91. Proceedings. Tenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Networking in the 90s., IEEE

Conference_Location

Bal Harbour, FL

Print_ISBN

0-87942-694-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1991.147672

Filename

147672