Performability evaluation of CSMA/CD and CSMA/DCR protocols under transient fault conditions

Author

Prodromides, K.H. ; Sanders, W.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA

Volume

42

Issue

1

fYear

1993

fDate

3/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

116

Lastpage

127

Abstract

This study compares the performability of the carrier sense multiple access protocol with collision detection (CSMA/CD) and a variant, the CSMA protocol with deterministic CD ( CSMA/DCR), which uses a deterministic collision-resolution, considering errors induced by transient faults. The long-term effect that transient faults can induce on the electronics which implement the protocols is considered. This is done using stochastic activity networks (SANs), a stochastic extension of Petri nets. SANs permits the detailed workings of CSMA/DCR and traditional CSMA/CD to be represented accurately, as well as the effects of transient faults

Keywords

Petri nets; carrier sense multiple access; performance evaluation; stochastic processes; transients; CSMA protocol; CSMA/CD; CSMA/DCR; Petri nets; carrier sense multiple access protocol; collision detection; deterministic collision-resolution; performability evaluation; stochastic activity networks; transient fault conditions; Access protocols; Delay; Ethernet networks; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Stochastic processes; Stochastic resonance; Storage area networks; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Reliability, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9529

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/24.210282

Filename

210282