Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1987

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Ilyas, Mohammad

Abstract

This thesis investigates the waiting-time in a token-ring local area network (LAN) with gated service discipline. It gives an analytical approximati.on for a network with an arbitrary number of stations, non-identical Poisson arrival streams and general service time distributions at each station, and non-zero switch-over time (also referred to as walking time) between adjacent stations. This approximation method is an alternative to the complicated O(N^2) numerical evaluation of the waiting-time currently available in the literature. Extensive simulation results with different parameters are presented to show the degree of accuracy of the approximation, which is generally good for a practical range of parameters.

Extent

61 p.

Comments

College of Engineering and Computer Science|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|College of Engineering and Computer Science

Identifier

FADT14364

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