The performance of Ethernet under a combined data/real-time traffic

Author

Aboelaze, Mokhtar A. ; Elnaggar, Ayman

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., York Univ., UK

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

349

Lastpage

350

Abstract

We investigate the performance of an IEEE 802.3 shared-bandwidth hub under a mixed data/real-time traffic load. For the regular data nodes we assume an exponentially distributed packet length with a Poisson arrival. For the video sources, we assumed MPEG encoded video sources at 30 frames per second. We used simulation to study the network performance under the above-mentioned load. We used 2 different protocols, the standard IEEE 802.3 and PCSMA, which is suitable for real-time traffic

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; data communication; local area networks; performance evaluation; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; video coding; visual communication; Ethernet; IEEE 802.3 shared-bandwidth hub; IEEE 802.3 standard; MPEG encoded video sources; PCSMA; Poisson arrival; data/real-time traffic; exponentially distributed packet length; network performance; protocols; regular data nodes; simulation; video sources; Bandwidth; Delay; Ethernet networks; Local area networks; Multiaccess communication; Protocols; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Video sharing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2000. LCN 2000. Proceedings. 25th Annual IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0912-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2000.891067

Filename

891067