On the design of hybrid prioritized multiple access protocols for bank data center LANs

Summary form only given. The communication systems of commercial banks support four classes of traffic: Alarm, BSC, SNA and IP traffic, with each class of traffic having different priority requirements. In this paper, a new approach to the design of multiple access protocols which are capable of handling the above priority classes is introduced. Furthermore, a hybrid multiple access protocol that has been designed according to the proposed approach is presented and evaluated by means of extensive simulation results.