Metropolitan Area Networks

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction

   • Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Luciano Lenzini

   Pages 1-20

3. Stochastic Processes For Modeling Metropolitan Area Networks: Basic Results

   • Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Luciano Lenzini

   Pages 21-80

4. Methods for the Analysis of Node-in-isolation Models

   • Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Luciano Lenzini

   Pages 81-134

5. Methods for the Analysis of Network-wide Models: Polling Models

   • Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Luciano Lenzini

   Pages 135-199

6. Fiber-Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)

   • Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Luciano Lenzini

   Pages 201-244

7. FDDI Models

   • Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Luciano Lenzini

   Pages 245-303

8. Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB)

   • Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Luciano Lenzini

   Pages 309-350

9. DQDB Models

   • Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Luciano Lenzini

   Pages 351-392

10. Evolution Towards Gigabit Rates

    • Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Luciano Lenzini

    Pages 393-407

11. Back Matter

    Pages I-VIII

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With the continuing success of Local Area Networks (IANs), there is an increasing demand to extend their capabilities towards higher data rates and wider areas. This, together with the progress in fiber-optic technology, has given rise to the so-called Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs). MANs can span much greater distances than current LAN s, and offer data rates on the order of hundreds of Megabits/sec (Mbps). The success of MANs is mainly due to the opportunity they provide to develop new networking products capable of providing high-speed commu­ nications between applications at competitive prices, which nonetheless give an adequate return on the manufacturers' investments. A major factor in of appropriate networking standards. achieving this goal is the availability Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDl) and Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) are the two standard technologies for MANs for which industrial products are already available. For this reason, this book focuses mainly on these two standards. Nowadays there are several books dealing with MANs, and these look mainly at FDDI (e.g., [2], [92], [118], [141]). These books focus primarily on the architectures and protocols, whereas they pay little attention to per­ formance analysis. Due to the capability of MANs to integrate services, a quantitative analysis of the Quality of Service (QoS) provided by these tech­ nologies is a relevant issue, and is thus covered in depth in this book.

• Local Area Network
• Metropolitan Area Network
• Quality of Service
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Standards
• performance
• performance evaluation

• Italian National Research Council, CNUCE Institute, Pisa, Italy

  Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori

• Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

  Luciano Lenzini

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