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The Computer Journal 1994 37(3):188-198; doi:10.1093/comjnl/37.3.188
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Simulating a Multimedia FDDI Backbone Network

K. Ranai2,1 § *, K. S. Lim2 § and R. H. Deng3 ¶

1 Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511, Republic of Singapore, 2 Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511, Republic of Singapore, 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511, Republic of Singapore

The Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is an ANSI standard for high speed fiber optic ring networks. Its media access control (MAC) protocol operates on the basis of a timed-token ring, and allows the transmission of both time critical and normal prioritized data. Because of these characteristics, it is highly suitable for use in a multimedia environment where there are a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous data classes. This paper describes an implementation of the FDDI MAC protocol using the RESQ2 simulation language and studies the behaviour of the protocol when used as a large multimedia backbone network where stations represent gateway connections to peripheral LANs. It also investigates the behaviour of symmetric and asymmetric loading on such large networks and some potential problems that may be encountered.

Received May 1991. revised February 1994.

* Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511, Republic of Singapore

§ Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511, Republic of Singapore

Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511, Republic of Singapore


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