Article ID: | iaor19951968 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 64 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 381 |
End Page Number: | 397 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1995 |
Journal: | ACM SIGPLAN Notices |
Authors: | Obaidat M.S. |
Keywords: | simulation: applications |
This paper presents a detailed comparative performance simulation study for the Ethernet and Token Bus local computer networks. The simulation models are built using discrete-driven simulation. SIMSCRIPT II.5 is used to develop the simulation models. The performance metrics considered in this paper are the throughput and average packet delay. Results obtained show that the throughput declines as the normalized propagation delay increases. However, the Token Bus channel utilization is higher than that of Ethernet especially when the Token Bus is operating in the exhaustive service case. The Token Bus exhaustive service has better maximum throughput-normalized propagation delay,