Fairness issues of the DQDB protocol

Author

Martini, Peter

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tech. Univ. of Aachen, West Germany

fYear

1989

fDate

10-12 Oct 1989

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

170

Abstract

The draft distributed queue dual bus (DQDB) protocol is a proposed standard for metropolitan area networks (MANs). A study is made of fairness issues of the current version of this IEEE 802.6 working document, which is intended to be the basis for MAN service offered by public network providers. Performance is studied with respect to both delays and throughput. It is shown that the throughput provided to specific users may depend on the geographic location with respect to other users. On the other hand, DQDB yields fair medium access for the majority of realistic scenarios

Keywords

computer networks; delays; performance evaluation; protocols; queueing theory; standards; telecommunication traffic; IEEE 802.6 working document; MAN service; bandwidth sharing fairness; delays; distributed queue dual bus; draft protocol; metropolitan area networks; proposed standard; public network providers; saturated senders; throughput; user geographic location; Access protocols; Australia; Bridges; Computer science; Delay; LAN interconnection; Media Access Protocol; Metropolitan area networks; Telecommunication network topology; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1989., Proceedings 14th Conference on

Conference_Location

Mineapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1968-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1989.65257

Filename

65257