Supporting Multimedia Services over a Token-Passing Bus Local Area Network.

Authors

Hassan Soliman, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering., Faculty of Engineering,El- Mansoura University., Mansoura., Egypt.Follow
T. El-Danaf, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science, Menoufia University, Egypt.Follow

Corresponding Author

Soliman, Hassan

Subject Area

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Article Type

Original Study

Abstract

Besides data transactions such as web surfing and e-commerce, the Internet today has been experiencing growth in audio and video streaming with the emergence of multimedia tools. However, the existing network infrastructure (e.g., Ethernet) only offers a single best effort class of service without any guarantees on delay variation, packet losses or available bandwidth. This can adversely impact the end-to-end performance of multimedia applications. Accordingly, a different class of Media Access Control (MAC) protocols must be used to support multimedia services over the existing Local Area Networks (LANs) without seeking to ehange it [3]. The token-passing bus was introduced to avoid the non-determinism of Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) bus protocol as well as the complexities of active repeaters in the token ring [8]. This makes, token-passing bus MAC protocol is the best candidate to support multimedia traffic over Ethernet LANs [8]. In this paper, the capability of the token-passing bus LANs to provide multimedia services is explored and its performance under different multimedia traffic loads is evaluated using a simulation program.

Recommended Citation

Soliman, Hassan and El-Danaf, T. (2020) "Supporting Multimedia Services over a Token-Passing Bus Local Area Network.," Mansoura Engineering Journal: Vol. 30 : Iss. 3 , Article 10.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.21608/bfemu.2020.131681