INTEGRATION OF SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS TRAFFIC ON THE METARING AND ITS PERFORMANCE STUDY

In this paper, we describe and evaluate a protocol for integrating two types of traffic on the MetaRing Architecture, Synchronous (reserved or real-time) traffic which is periodic and requires a connection set- up and will have guaranteed bandwidth and bounded delay, and asynchron ous or bursty traffic with no real-time constraints that can use the r emainder of the bandwidth in a fair manner, The integration mechanism is functionally equivalent to the timed-token function in FDDI, which is a shared media ring protocol, Simulation results are also presented to show the effects of the fairness and flow control signals on the p erformance of the network.