Performance evaluation of Ethernet and HYPERbus local area networks using computer modeling
WSC '85 Proceedings of the 17th conference on Winter simulation
Performance characteristics of two Ethernets: an experimental study
SIGMETRICS '85 Proceedings of the 1985 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Measured performance of an Ethernet local network
Communications of the ACM
Computer Networks
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Local Area Networks are becoming the most common way of connecting a series of workstations to allow them to communicate with each other and share common resources. It is therefore becoming more and more important for network designers and installers to evaluate the ability of local area networks that use different communication protocols to handle the desired message loads. An issue in LAN performance is related to the properties of the medium access protocol, i.e., its throughput-delay characteristics. By medium access protocol we refer to the MAC (Medium Access Control) sublayer as defined by the IEEE-802 and the ISOOSI protocols. This paper focuses on two general classes of protocols: the first is known as Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) and the second is known as Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) or Bit-Mapped protocol. Two variations of each class are examined, and comparisons are made between the classes and the variants of each class.