The Performance of Ethernet under a Combined Data/Real-Time Traffic

In this paper, we investigate the performance of an IEEE802.3 shared-bandwidth hub under a mixed data/real-time traffic load. For the regular data nodes we assume an exponentially distributed packet length with a Poisson arrival. For the video sources, we assumed MPEG encoded video sources at 30 frames per second. We used simulation to study the network performance under the above-mentioned load. We used 2 different protocols, the standard IEEE802.3 and PCSMA, which is suitable for real-time traffic.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: LCN
• Authors: Mokhtar Aboelaze, Ayman Elnaggar
• Keywords: Computer Networks, Data/real-time Traffic Load, LCN 2000, Regular Data Nodes, Video Sources