Title :
The guaranteed bandwidth and balancing mechanism for high speed metropolitan area networks
Author :
Karvelas, Dennis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The bandwidth balancing (BWB DQDB) and guaranteed bandwidth (GBW DQDB) mechanisms have been recently proposed for addressing the issue of channel bandwidth allocation on DQDB type networks. BWB DQDB can introduce fairness into a DQDB network while GBW DQDB can guarantee the bandwidth of certain high priority stations. We introduce the guaranteed bandwidth and balancing mechanism (GBWB DQDB) which aims at combining the advantages of BWB DQDB and GBW DQDB. That is, it can guarantee the bandwidth of high priority stations and at the same time, enables them to compete for the remaining channel bandwidth. We provide a detailed description of the new mechanism and investigate its performance through simulation results. Furthermore, we compare GBWB DQDB with BWB DQDB and GBW DQDB
Keywords :
access protocols; metropolitan area networks; performance evaluation; DQDB; bandwidth balancing; channel bandwidth allocation; fairness; guaranteed bandwidth; high priority stations; high speed metropolitan area networks; performance; simulation results; Bandwidth; Channel allocation; Computer networks; Costs; Counting circuits; Information science; Metropolitan area networks; Steady-state; Throughput; Traffic control;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1994.368794
