© 1988 by British Computer Society
Medium Access Control Schemes for Local Area Networks with Multiple Priority Function

1 Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA, 2 Department of Computer Sciences and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
This paper deals with the development and performance evaluation of three modified versions of a scheme proposed for medium access control in local area networks. The original scheme implements a collision-free and fair medium arbitration by using a control wire in conjunction with a data bus. The modifications suggested in this paper are intended to realize the multiple priority function in local area networks.
Received May 1986. Revised January 1987.
* Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A.
Department of Computer Sciences and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India.