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Prioritized resolvable‐contention‐ring access control scheme
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Date Issued
January 1, 1992
Type
Article
Abstract
This paper proposes a prioritized resolvable‐contention‐ring scheme for high‐speed optical communication networks and investigates its performance. The priority mechanism is based on the time‐token control scheme. This mechanism attempts to guarantee the frame delay of time‐critical traffic by controlling the frame transmission of noncritical traffic. The noncritical frame can be transmitted only if token rotation time is faster than target rotation time. This paper examines the priority mechanism in the case of two priority levels and also in the case of four priority levels. System performance is studied using a computer simulation method with a time‐continuous simulator. The validity of the priority mechanism is demonstrated in a comparison with a fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) and the nonprioritized resolvable‐contention ring. Efficient operation of the priority mechanism is investigated by considering the buffer overflow rate of each priority class. The proposed scheme performs effectively. Moreover, the performance of FDDI is comparatively degraded because of long token waiting time and large token capture time. Copyright © 1992 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
Citation
Electronics and Communications in Japan Part I Communications, 75(2), 48-59, 1992