Cycle-time properties of the timed token medium access control protocol

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1362-1367

  Zhang, Sijing ^a   Burns, Alan ^b   Cheng, Tee Hiang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

FDDI networks; Protocol timing properties; Real time communications; Timed token medium access control (MAC) protocol; Timed token networks

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

TIMED TOKEN MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) PROTOCOLS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0036857149     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2002.1047759     Document Type: Article

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