The effect of bandwidth allocation policies on delay in unidirectional bus networks.

We consider the problem of allocating bandwidth fairly to each node in a shared, unidirectional bus network. We focus on the pi persistent protocol, since these are open loop policies designed to operate well in high speed networks, which have a very large bandwidth-delay product and feedback in th...

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Published in:	IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 13, 7 (1995).
Main Author:	Manjunath, D.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	MAN. Active interfaces. Average packet delays. Bandwidth allocation policies. Bandwidth-delay product. Deterministic counting algorithm. Deterministic n out of m protocol. Distributed access control schemes. High speed networks. Lower bound. Metropolitan area networks. Open loop policies. pi persistent protocol. pi preemptive protocol. Point-to-point links. Preemption probability. Queue lengths. Regenerative approach. Simulation. Unidirectional bus networks.