J. Koutsonikos, Th. Antonakopoulos and V. Makios:

A Dynamic Buffer Structure for LAN Gateways

The 21st IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, Rhodes, Greece, June1991.

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new dynamic buffer structure for use in LAN gateways. This structure is called dynamic because it uses the statistic behaviour of the attached networks, the LAN and the Backbone, to allocate the gateway resources. The method utilizes the differences between the protocol profiles of the two networks and optimizes the implementation parameters for better system performance. Using  the simulation method, the operation of the proposed structure is analyzed and the influence of the system parameters is indicated. The performance of that structure is also compared with the performance of a commonly used buffer structure and, as the results demonstrate, an enhanced performance is derived.

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