Title :
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
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;
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.1994.368826
