Throughput analysis of a collision free protocol for local area network

Author

Phung, Van Phuc Trach ; Dimopoulos, Nikitas J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

1988

fDate

10-12 Oct 1988

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

252

Abstract

A collision-free variation (CSMA/CF) of the CSMA/CD (carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection) protocol was proposed by C.W. Wong (1985). This variation uses two separate channels for network acquisition; data transmission can be performed in parallel with the current transmission, the idle period is greatly reduced, and consequently the system throughput is increased. The authors describe an analytical method to calculate the throughput of this collision free protocol. The results are then compared with the throughput of the original CSMA/CD access method. It is concluded that the throughput of the collision-free protocol is greatly increased, mostly due to the application of prescheduling and parallelism

Keywords

carrier sense multiple access; local area networks; CSMA/CD; CSMA/CF; carrier-sense multiple access; collision detection; collision free protocol; collision-free variation; local area network; parallelism; prescheduling; throughput analysis; Access protocols; Collision avoidance; Communication networks; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Local area networks; Multiaccess communication; Propagation delay; Spine; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1988., Proceedings of the 13th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0891-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1988.10235

Filename

10235