Measured performance of an Ethernet local network
Communications of the ACM
Ethernet: distributed packet switching for local computer networks
Communications of the ACM
The behavior of Ethernet-like computer communications networks
SOSP '79 Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Design and performance of local computer networks
Design and performance of local computer networks
Packet-voice communication on an ethernet local computer network: an experimental study
SIGCOMM '83 Proceedings of the symposium on Communications Architectures & Protocols
Modeling and simulation of medium-access-protocols in local area networks
ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest
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Local computer networks are increasing in popularity for the interconnection of computers for a variety of applications. One such network that has been implemented on a large scale is the Ethernet. This paper describes an experimental performance evaluation of a 3 and a 10 Mb/s Ethernet. The effects of varying packet length and transmission speed on throughput, mean delay and delay distribution are quantified. The protocols are seen to be fair and stable. These measurements span the range from the region of high performance of the CSMA/CD protocol to the upper limits of its utility where performance is degraded. The measurements are compared to the predictions of existing analytical models. The correlation is found to range from good to poor, with more sophisticated models yielding better results than a simple one.