[e2e] Token/slotted access based mechanisms

[Vinay Bannai]

 Alok,

 This may not be directly relevant, but there is emerging standard coming
out
of IEEE 802 called RPR (resilient packet rings). The WG is called 802.17 and
eventhough it is not based on tokens/slots, there might be some useful
information that you might find regarding fairness of bandwidth for the
nodes on the ring. The website is

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/17

 Regards,
 Vinay Bannai

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alok Dube" <alok.dube at apara.com>
> To: <end2end-interest at postel.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:02 AM
> Subject: [e2e] Token/slotted access based mechanisms
>
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am not sure if this is the right mailing list to ask this question
> > (primarily I dont see any mailing list where these topics are discussed
> and
> > this seemed the closest), but incase someone can point me to the correct
> > mailing list/documents to lookup, it would be great.
> >
> > Consider a slotted access/token based access mechanism.
> >
> > Multiple nodes connect to the token based access mechanism.
> >
> > The total number of tokens/slots is finite..say X
> >
> > A node is given access to the slots based on say, its bandwidth
> requirements
> > (i get 1 slot/tokens or 2 slots/tokens etc).
> >
> > Essentially X decides the sampling rate from the slot/token based
> "sampler"
> > into the network/across the network.
> >
> > now is there any way that one can allocate "evenly spaced" slots to the
> > data?
> >
> > It is more to the tune of, if a node needs 2 slots, it should get slots
> > which are spaced apart by a distance of X/2, if a node needs 3 slots it
> > should get slots spaced apart by X/3 etc... the "X" is variable and it
can
> > be decided in such a manner that all requirements fit into the need.(  I
> > would call X the envelope size).
> >
> > Is there any work done somewhere in this direction?
> >
> > -thanks
> > Alok.
> >
> >
> >
>