Average Packet Transfer Delay Performance of an Enhanced CSMA/CD based Single Channel Fast Ethernet Optical LAN

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Shamima Kabir
Abdullah M.K
Sabira Khatun
Mahdi M.A

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CSMA/CD based Ethernet does not guarantee delay bound and behaves poorly under heavy load conditions because of excessive collisions and backoff algorithm. It is not suitable for supporting real-time multimedia traffic. This paper presents an enhanced CSMA/CD to improve average packet transfer delay by reducing collisions. Here, each node has a finite buffer capacity that helps to reduce collisions. To guarantee a bounded delay for multimedia applications, the maximum retransmission attempt and backoff limit are reduced from 16 to 10 and from 10 to 8 respectively. Average packet transfer delay based on proposed CSMA/CD is evaluated against several design parameters i.e. number of nodes, bus length and offered load. The delay results show significant improvement. Percentage of collisions is reduced to less than 3% and thereby average packet transfer delay is reduced to less than 2 ms compared to conventional CSMA/CD.

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Kabir, S., M.K, A., Khatun, S., & M.A, M. (2007). Average Packet Transfer Delay Performance of an Enhanced CSMA/CD based Single Channel Fast Ethernet Optical LAN. Malaysian Journal of Science, 26(2), 117–126. Retrieved from http://jice.um.edu.my/index.php/MJS/article/view/8076
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