Calculation Methods for Slot Utilization Based on Erasure nodes in DQDB Networks

Maximum single bus throughput of standard IEEE 802.6 DQDB(Distributed Queue Dual Bus) is not obtained over 1. Therefore, lots of studies for improving bus throughput have done by QA slot preuse/reuse. We propose three calculation cethods for network's utilization with preuse/reuse scheme based on erasure nodes. One is calculation method by traffic density function, other is calculation method for obtaining maximum throughput. The other is calculation method using probability concept which follows real DQDB operation mechanisms. The calculated throughputs are compared with each others. The results shows some favorite phenomena. The proposed calculation methods can be casily expanded in mumber of nodes or in number of erasure nodes.