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Acknowledgement overhead in local area networks

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Date Issued:
1987
Summary:
The throughput of a local area network (LAN) is primarily determined by the speed with which the communicating station can process the packets of data. Because of this, protocol overhead is extremely costly to system throughput. A major contributor to the protocol overhead is the acknowledgement structure. Often in a multilayered system acknowledgements are generated by multiple levels. The purpose of this thesis is to explore, through the use of queueing model simulation and analysis, the impact of different acknowledgement structures on throughput. Possible ways to alleviate the problem, such as peripheral processors and modified protocol layers, are also briefly examined.
Title: Acknowledgement overhead in local area networks.
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Name(s): Lyford, Avery Martin.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Ilyas, Mohammad, Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1987
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 96 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The throughput of a local area network (LAN) is primarily determined by the speed with which the communicating station can process the packets of data. Because of this, protocol overhead is extremely costly to system throughput. A major contributor to the protocol overhead is the acknowledgement structure. Often in a multilayered system acknowledgements are generated by multiple levels. The purpose of this thesis is to explore, through the use of queueing model simulation and analysis, the impact of different acknowledgement structures on throughput. Possible ways to alleviate the problem, such as peripheral processors and modified protocol layers, are also briefly examined.
Identifier: 14424 (digitool), FADT14424 (IID), fau:11224 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.
Subject(s): Local area networks
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