Modeling of an availability driven computer network architecture

a broadcast bus along with the notion ofscheduling protocols.The scheduling protocols are essentially multiple access algorithms that are random, limitedcontention (hybrids), or contention-free multi-access. The many advantages of this designinclude an inherent dynamic load balanced system (without the need for distributed balancingalgorithms), fairness, robustness, stability, graceful perfonnance degradation with upward scal­ing, etc. In this report is presented the results ofa set ofintensive simulation experiments on afour sever, ten user ADMA system. The protocols investigated are the token-passing,coUisionresolution, and two versions (fixed backoff, binary exponential backoff) ofthe CSivWCD data­link protocols. In this pilot study, the simulation experiments tend