Some performance issues associated with high speed LANs, MANs andWANs

摘要

Issues discussed at the 13th International Teletraffic Congress(ITC-13) regarding high speed local area networks (LANs), wide areanetworks (WANs) and metropolitan area networks (MANs) are reviewed, andsome important problem areas that remain are noted. Specific areasaddressed include performance of two important emerging MAN standards,namely distributed queue dual bus (DQDB) and fiber distributed datainterface (FDDI), retransmission protocols in high-speed networks, andrelated questions of fairness