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

Bounded Transfer Delays in Buffer Insertion Rings using Load-Controlled Scheduling of Traffic

The 5th IEEE Workshop on Metropolitan Area Networks, Taormina, Italy, May 1992.

Abstract: The use of a modified Buffer Insertion Access method in the Metropolitan Area Network environment is examined in this paper. This method has been modified using a simple Load-Controlled Scheduling of Traffic protocol, which overrides its intrinsic disadvantages and achieves the adaptation of the offered load to the network conditions. Each station independently adjusts its asynchronous traffic to the available bandwidth by monitoring the instantaneous traffic flow. Although the performance of the asynchronous class of traffic decreases, the synchronous traffic is served with bounded transfer delays and the total network performance makes it appropriate for use in the MAN environment.

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