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Prioritized slotted multiple access protocols for bank LANs
Author(s) -
Sklira M.,
Pomportsis A. S.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.620
Subject(s) - computer science , computer network , protocol (science) , bandwidth (computing) , class (philosophy) , distributed computing , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , artificial intelligence
Four classes of traffic are present in a bank communication system: Alarm, BSC, SNA and IP traffic, with each class of traffic having different priority requirements. In this paper, a prioritized multiple access protocol is introduced which is capable of handling the above priority classes. The proposed protocol makes use of learning automata in order to dynamically assign the available bandwidth to the priority classes. In this way, it is capable of being adapted to the traffic conditions. The proposed protocol, is applicable to a broad range of prioritized LANs, as it can be easily extended to support multiple classes of traffic. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.