A study on the interconnection of slotted random access networks
Jean‐Lien C. Wu, Jingshown Wu, Ho‐Ting Wu · Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers · 1987
The rapid growth in local area networks (LANs) over the past few years has generated interest in the interconnection of LANs. The need of interconnecting LANs arises because it is advantageous to allow users in a much wider geographic span to communicate and to share resources. Furthermore, when a communication system with a large number of users in it, it is expected that the performance of the system will be better than the case that all these large number of users are directly connected if the users are firstly grouped into clusters which are interconnected. This paper describes a packet switching architecture which interconnects sections of local area networks operated in ALOHA mode. The properties that this packet switching node possesses are similar to those of an interface message processor (IMP), also known as a node, in a computer communication network. This node has the functionality of selectively connecting Users in different sections of slotted ALOHA channels. Detailed throughput and queueing analyses of each slotted ALOHA channel as well as the overall system are presented. It is shown that a greater maximum overall system throughput can be achieved.