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A New Token Passing Protocol on a Star LAN

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local area networks (lan)

Overview The IEEE 802.5 is the standard protocol for token ring Local Area Networks (LANs) currently in use in many areas. It is popular because of its many advantages, such as reliability, simplicity of hardware, ease of use with various transmission media, efficiency at heavy load, and flexibility in link length and number of stations attached to the network. One of its drawbacks, however, is its inefficiency at moderate and light loads. At light loads, a station with a packet to send must wait on average half a round trip propagation delay time to receive the free token. This paper used the star topology implementation of the token ring network to develop a new protocol with improved performance characteristics at moderate and light loads.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Oklahoma City University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	Local Area Networks (LAN), IP Technologies

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