Local Area Network Analysis
Larry W. Stone · Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School) · 1991
This thesis focuses on the performance of the Ethernet local area network in Ingersoll Hall, Room 250, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. The primary research is in performing a cost benefit analysis, using the economic value imputed to a reduction in average response time as the return on investment. The major objective is to find the best configuration for the network, based on integrating user-computer response time guidelines and the cost benefit analysis to indicate what might be economically acceptable response times for processing initial simultaneous requests for software installed on network servers. Word Perfect 5.0 software was chosen because it is typical of the software that is used in the lab under conditions of simultaneous access. Additionally, some of the effects of response time on human performance will be researched and noted in the conclusions along with the results of the feasibility test of user-computer interfaces and related cost benefit values.