Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2 (1996), Issue 3, Pages 191-198
doi:10.1155/S1024123X96000300
Asymptotic performance characteristics of CSMA and CSMA←CD→CSMA/CD networks
Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1, Kuseng-dong, Yusung-gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea
Received 29 March 1995
Copyright © 1996 J.-T Lim. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper presents analytical formulae for performance evaluation of CSMA and CSMA/CD networks with a finite number of buffered users. The asymptotic theory developed in [1] is extended to local area networks so as to investigate the resulting steady state throughput, time delay, probability of blocking, and local stability of each equilibrium. In particular, the stabilization of CSMA and CSMA/CD networks is considered, i.e., how to choose the transmission probability so that a unique steady state with relatively high performance characteristics is achieved.