Performance comparison of four MAC protocols for integrated MANs

Author

Marson, M.A. ; Neri, F.

Author_Institution

Milano Univ., Italy

fYear

1990

fDate

3-6 Sep 1990

Firstpage

104

Lastpage

112

Abstract

The performance of four different MAC (medi access control) sublayer protocols proposed for applications in extended local area networks and/or metropolitan area network (MANs) integrating different types of traffic are compared. The four protocols are Expressnet, Fasnet, QPSX (or distributed queue dual bus-DQDB), and FDDI-II (fiber distributed data interface II). Performance results in terms of average and variance of packet access delay, channel utilization, and percentage of packets lost due to lack of buffers are obtained through simulation for variable geographic coverage and data rate, assuming a mix of voice and data traffic

Keywords

computer networks; optical links; performance evaluation; protocols; DQDB; Expressnet; FDDI-II; Fasnet; MAC protocols; QPSX; channel utilization; data traffic; distributed queue dual bus; extended local area networks; integrated MAN; medi access control; metropolitan area network; packet access delay; packet loss; performance comparison; voice traffic; Access control; Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; Delay; FDDI; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Metropolitan area networks; Optical buffering; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Symposium, 1990. ITS '90 Symposium Record., SBT/IEEE International

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITS.1990.175581

Filename

175581