A reservation protocol for packet voice and data integration in unidirectional bus networks

Author

Apostolidis, Kiriakos ; Merakos, Lazaros F. ; Xing, Xie-Hao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA

Volume

41

Issue

3

fYear

1993

fDate

3/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

478

Lastpage

485

Abstract

A movable boundary protocol is proposed for integrating packet voice and data in unidirectional bus networks. The head station on the bus learns the number of ready-to-transmit voice stations by reading a `request´ bit in the header of the received packets and allocates the exact number of voice slots needed in each frame. The protocol guarantees that the maximum delay to transmit a voice packet will be less than the round-trip propagation delay at the head station plus twice the time needed to form the packet. The average data packet delay is evaluated via approximate analysis and simulation, for the case in which the voice-reserved slots in a frame are contiguous and for the case in which they are evenly distributed

Keywords

data communication systems; packet switching; protocols; voice communication; average data packet delay; movable boundary protocol; packet voice/data integration; reservation protocol; unidirectional bus networks; voice-reserved slots; Access protocols; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Delay effects; Detectors; Intelligent networks; Packet switching; Propagation delay; Speech analysis; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.221078

Filename

221078