The authors study the performance of a two-connected multiple-token mu
ltiple-ring network in which each node has only two transceivers and t
wo medium access control entities. They show that such a network is su
itable for an environment in which the traffic patterns are clustered.
An approximate analysis of the average transfer delay performance for
the network is presented, the results of which are verified by comput
er simulation. It is shown that for random traffic the delay performan
ce for intracluster traffic is much better than that of a multiple-tok
en double-ring network. For clustered traffic, the performance of this
network is better than that of the multiple-token double-ring network
for all cases.