Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1988

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Ilyas, Mohammad

Abstract

This thesis investigates some of the flow control issues in a system of Local Area Networks consisting of multiple token rings interconnected through bridges via a backbone ring. Flow control is realized by a window mechanism, i.e., a sender is permitted to transmit not more than a fixed number, W (the window size), of frames without having to wait for an acknowledgment. The solution is based on an existing approximation of the mean end-to-end delay in a stand-alone token ring LAN, which is extended by approximating the arrival rates at the bridges as a function of the throughput of each subnetwork and the probability that, the throughput is directed to the other subnetworks. The packet-lengths are assumed to be exponentially distributed. The performance of the system is evaluated by varying the window size.

Extent

100 p.

Comments

College of Engineering and Computer Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.C.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1988.|College of Engineering and Computer Science

Identifier

FADT14447

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