Abstract

High-speed local area networks (HSLANs) operate at channel capacities of at least 100 Mbit/s. Taking advantage of the progress in optical transmission technique, the first HSLAN based on a token passing ring, namely FDDI (fiber distributed data interface) has now become commercially available. However, several other strategies to determine the token holding duration at a station may be applied, e.g. single service or exhaustive service. The author evaluates and compares the performance of these token ring protocols for a high-speed backbone network interconnecting possibly heterogeneous conventional local area subnetworks. Every media access protocol under consideration has been shown to work very well for typical numbers of stations ( >

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