PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION OF A TOKEN PASSING ACCESS PROTOCOL FOR A MULTICHANNEL OPTICAL FIBER LAN

被引:4
作者
SENIOR, JM [1 ]
CUSWORTH, SD [1 ]
RYLEY, A [1 ]
机构
[1] MANCHESTER POLYTECH,FAC SCI & ENGN,DEPT MATH & PHYS,MANCHESTER M1 5GD,LANCS,ENGLAND
关键词
Data Transmission - Packet Switching - Electric Networks; Communication - Fiber Optics - Telecommunication Links; Optical; -; Performance;
D O I
10.1016/0140-3664(88)90043-6
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
An alternative approach to multichannel local area network access is described. The new multichannel access scheme or protocol is based on a token passing arbitration policy. It is specifically intended for use with a star-configured optical fiber LAN employing wavelength division multiplexing technology in order to provide a multichannel transmission medium. The multichannel network architecture comprises a single reservation channel and several equivalent speed data channels. Delay versus throughput performance characteristics for the network obtained by both analysis and discrete event simulation are shown. The multichannel token passing protocol is found to significantly improve these characteristics in comparison with a conventional single channel token passing approach using the same overall network transmission rate (i.e. the sum of the individual channel bit rates in the multichannel case.
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页码:304 / 312
页数:9
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