Reliability analysis of various station attachment schemes in aFDDI token ring

摘要

Five different attachment schemes proposed for the FDDI (fiberdistributed data interface) token ring are compared in terms ofreliability. For this purpose, the topologies are first studied inisolation (reliability of the path to the backbone) and subsequentlyend-to-end user reliabilities are computed by combining backbonereliability with the reliability of the path to the backbone