Lightnet: a protocol for future real time high speed broadcast networks

Author

Jacquet, Philippe ; Mühlethaler, Paul

Author_Institution

INRIA, Le Chesnay, France

fYear

1988

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

81

Abstract

A set of high-speed protocols working on unidirectional broadcast systems is defined. Lightnet 1 is based on collision avoidance and a simple reservation scheme; Lightnet 2 is a version for heavy loads; and Lightnet 3 is designed to work on a ring topology. Three analytical models are developed to evaluate the performances of these protocols. Comparisons between analytical and simulation results show the accuracy of these models. A careful comparison between Lightnet I and Expressnet shows that the former outperforms the latter both for average delay and for flexibility to various kinds of traffic mixes under the assumption of uniform packet size

Keywords

broadcasting; packet switching; protocols; Expressnet; Lightnet; Lightnet 1; Lightnet 2; Lightnet 3; collision avoidance; future real time high speed broadcast networks; heavy loads; high-speed protocols; performance evaluation; reservation scheme; ring topology; traffic mixes; unidirectional broadcast systems; uniform packet size; Access protocols; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Channel capacity; Optical fiber LAN; Propagation delay; Throughput; Time division multiple access; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems in the 1990s, 1988. Proceedings., Workshop on the Future Trends of

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0897-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1988.26682

Filename

26682