MPEG: a video compression standard for multimedia applications
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on digital multimedia systems
Toward an open environment for digital video
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on digital multimedia systems
Synchronous bandwidth allocation in FDDI networks
MULTIMEDIA '93 Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Multimedia
Real-time fault-tolerant communication in computer networks
Real-time fault-tolerant communication in computer networks
Effects of the Target Token Rotation Time on the Performance of a Timed-Token Protocol
Performance '90 Proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance Modelling, Measurement and Evaluation
On the Effectiveness of the FDDI-M Medium Access Protocol for Real-Time Traffic
The Journal of Supercomputing - Special issue: high performance computing systems
Time properties of the BuST protocol under the NPA budget allocation scheme
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Computer Communications
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Synchronous messages are usually generated periodically and each of them is required to be transmitted before the generation of the next message. Due to the inherent deficiency in its medium access control (MAC) protocol, an FDDI token ring can use at most one half of its ring bandwidth to transmit such synchronous traffic. This deficiency greatly reduces the FDDI驴s capability of supporting multimedia applications like real-time voice/video transmissions. In this paper, we show how a few simple modifications to the FDDI驴s MAC protocol can remove this deficiency and double a ring驴s ability of supporting synchronous traffic. The modified protocol, called FDDI-M, can also achieve a higher throughput for asynchronous traffic than the standard FDDI and the FDDI-II, thus making it useful even for those networks without heavy synchronous traffic.