Parallelring: a token ring LAN with concurrent multipletransmissions and message destination removal |
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Authors: | Qu Y Landweber LH Livny M |
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Affiliation: | Network Manage. Inc., Fairfax, VA; |
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Abstract: | A token ring local area network, the parallelring, is introduced. The ability to concurrently support multiple communication paths on a single loop in an efficient and fair manner differentiates the parallelring from earlier ring architectures. This is accomplished by using a message destination removal scheme and, hence, allowing more than one station to transmit a variable-length frame at a time. Simulation studies show that the parallelring exhibits better performance in terms of throughput-delay characteristics than the other token rings. In addition, a priority scheme is used in the parallelring to provide messages of different time constraints with different media access priorities so that it can support media access fairness and real-time services. In the parallelring, error detection and recovery are completely decentralized |
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