Nonoptimality of synchronous bandwidth allocation schemes for the timed token protocol

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 101-103

  Zhang, Sijing ^a   Lee, E Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

FIBER DISTRIBUTED DATA INTERFACE NETWORKS; SYNCHRONOUS BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION; TARGET TOKEN ROTATION TIME; TIMED TOKEN PROTOCOL;

FREQUENCY ALLOCATION;

EID: 0343496822     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4234.831038     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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