Performance comparison of ATMR and CRMA-II in Gbit/s-LANs

Author

Grebe, Andreas ; Bach, Christoph

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. Syst., Hagen Univ., Germany

fYear

1994

fDate

1-5 May 1994

Firstpage

716

Abstract

ATMR (asynchronous transfer mode ring) and CRMA-II (cyclic reservation multiple access II) are two media access control (MAC) protocols for local and metropolitan area networks (LANs and MANs) working in the Gbit/s range. In this paper the basic access mechanisms of both protocols are described and compared. Our simulation results demonstrate the major performance characteristics of the MAC protocols which are highly suitable for Gbit/s-LANs but differ in some characteristics like access delay, transmission delay and throughput. Both protocols offer high utilization of network bandwidth by destination release and global fairness by special bandwidth sharing mechanisms

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; cyclic reservation multiple access; delays; local area networks; metropolitan area networks; performance evaluation; ATMR; CRMA-II; Gbit/s range; LAN; MAC protocols; MAN; access delay; access mechanisms; asynchronous transfer mode ring; bandwidth sharing mechanisms; cyclic reservation multiple access II; destination release; global fairness; local area networks; media access control; metropolitan area networks; network bandwidth utilization; performance characteristics; performance comparison; simulation results; throughput; transmission delay; Access control; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Counting circuits; Delay; Electronic mail; Media Access Protocol; Optical fibers; Routing protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1994. ICC '94, SUPERCOMM/ICC '94, Conference Record, 'Serving Humanity Through Communications.' IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1825-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1994.368826

Filename

368826