Performance of Unidirectional Broadcast Local Area Networks: Express-Net and FasNet

Abstract

Local area communication networks based on packet broadcasting techniques provide simple architectures and flexible and efficient operation. Unidirectional Broadcast Systems use a unidirectional transmission medium which, due to their physical ordering on the medium, users can access according to some efficient distributed conflict free round robin algorithm. Two systems of this type have been presented in the literature: Express-net and Fas-net. In this report we briefly describe these two. We identify three different service disciplines achievable by these systems and discuss and compare the performance of each. These systems overcome some of the performance limitations of existing random access schemes, making them particularly well suited to the high bandwidth requirements of an integrated services digital local network.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA221424

Entities

People

  • Fouad A. Tobagi
  • Michael Fine

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Bandwidth
  • Classification
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Local Area Networks
  • Markov Processes
  • Networks
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Recursive Functions
  • Simulations
  • Throughput
  • Unidirectional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design