Performance of an edge-to-edge protocol in a simulated X.25/X.75 packet network

Author

Brady, Paul T.

Author_Institution

Bell Commun. Res., Red Bank, NJ, USA

Volume

6

Issue

1

fYear

1988

fDate

1/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

196

Abstract

Roundtrip message response time was measured on a simulated packet network subjected to message traffic from interactive users. The links had impairments of errors and propagation delay. Each virtual circuit had its own edge-to-edge protocol. With no link-level protocol in place, the edge-to-edge protocol yielded good performance, provided that the edge-to-edge timeout threshold accounted for network delays due to packet queuing. A link-level protocol with too small a window (such as three) caused excessive network congestion and was worse than no link-level protocol at all. With a sufficient window, the link protocol offered an improvement under high-error conditions with light loads, but the improvement lessened as the load increased

Keywords

error correction; error detection; message switching; packet switching; protocols; queueing theory; telecommunication traffic; X.25 packet network; X.27 packet network; edge-to-edge protocol; errors; interactive users; link-level protocol; message traffic; network delays; open systems interconnection; packet queuing; propagation delay; roundtrip message response time; simulated packet network; timeout threshold; virtual circuit; Access protocols; Circuit simulation; Delay; Error correction; Intelligent networks; Packet switching; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Time measurement; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.192742

Filename

192742