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SIMULATION STUDY OF FLOW-CONTROL IN A TOKEN-RING LOCAL AREA NETWORK

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1986
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This thesis deals with simulation of flow control in token-ring local area networks. The primary emphasis of this simulation study is to observe the effects of token holding time on the performance of the network. Token holding time is adjusted to account for two types of service disciplines: gated and limited. Network performance for these two service disciplines is compared to determine which one of the two gives a relatively better performance. Besides throughput and delay, a more compact form of performance measure called "power", has also been used in the study . Power is simply a ratio of throughput and delay . This study has shown that the token holding time has a significant effect on the performance of a local area network . Simulation results of this study are presented in terms of throughput, delay, power, token circulation time and efficiency/overhead versus offered load. The results are presented in the form of graphs.
Title: SIMULATION STUDY OF FLOW-CONTROL IN A TOKEN-RING LOCAL AREA NETWORK.
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Name(s): BALACHANDRAN, CHITRA.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Ilyas, Mohammad, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1986
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 137 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis deals with simulation of flow control in token-ring local area networks. The primary emphasis of this simulation study is to observe the effects of token holding time on the performance of the network. Token holding time is adjusted to account for two types of service disciplines: gated and limited. Network performance for these two service disciplines is compared to determine which one of the two gives a relatively better performance. Besides throughput and delay, a more compact form of performance measure called "power", has also been used in the study . Power is simply a ratio of throughput and delay . This study has shown that the token holding time has a significant effect on the performance of a local area network . Simulation results of this study are presented in terms of throughput, delay, power, token circulation time and efficiency/overhead versus offered load. The results are presented in the form of graphs.
Identifier: 14311 (digitool), FADT14311 (IID), fau:11119 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.
Subject(s): Local area networks (Computer networks)--Simulation methods
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