Data Transfers in Broadcast Networks

  • Authors:
  • Anindo Bagchi;S. Louis Hakimi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

One of the main methods for designing data link protocols in broadcast networks is based on the allocation of transmission rights to nodes in timeslots guaranteeing collision-free access to the channel. Extensions of certain results on vertex coloring are used to establish bounds on the number of timeslots required for a network to finish transmitting a backlog of data. Such networks are also observed when they are structured as rings and trees. Distributed algorithms for the allocation of timeslots in these networks are presented.