Service integration in FDDI

Author

Martini, Peter ; Meuser, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Paderborn Univ., Germany

fYear

1990

fDate

30 Sep-3 Oct 1990

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

32

Abstract

Performance issues of the FDDI-II protocol, an upward-compatible enhancement of the basic fiber distributed data interface (FDDI), are discussed. The main characteristics of the FDDI protocol are examined. The performance of FDDI-II is studied for scenarios including asynchronous traffic, synchronous traffic and isochronous traffic. The results make clear that basic FDDI meets the requirements imposed by traditional local area network (LAN) application and that from a performance point of view FDDI-II is an excellent candidate for complex communications environments. When compared to the distributed-queue-dual bus (DQDB) protocol, FDDI-II yields much better efficiency in traditional LAN applications

Keywords

optical links; performance evaluation; protocols; standards; token networks; FDDI-II protocol; asynchronous traffic; complex communications environments; distributed-queue-dual bus; fiber distributed data interface; isochronous traffic; local area network; service integration; synchronous traffic; Analytical models; Communication system traffic control; Delay; FDDI; Local area networks; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Physical layer; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1990. Proceedings., 15th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2109-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1990.128636

Filename

128636