Performance evaluation of MiniMAP networks

A simulation study of the performances of MiniMAP networks is presented. The two network models used in the simulation take into account the effect of the maximum number of outstanding requests set for each manufacturing message specification (MMS) application association. Three different situations are considered. In the first, all the messages are generated at the same priority level, whereas in the other two, four priority classes that are directly mapped onto channel priorities are introduced. However, the second situation considers the use of priorities only on the client side of MMS, whereas the third uses priorities on both sides