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- From: jjf@peewee.enet.dec.com (John J. Franey)
- Subject: Re: Radio dreams
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.124118.16875@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Sender: jjf@peewee (35G-FRANEY)
- Reply-To: jjf@peewee.enet.dec.com (John J. Franey)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Sep9.150729.4381@informix.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 12:41:18 GMT
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- Check out the ALOHA packet radio research project in Hawaii: sometimes in
- the seventies. (Abramson, N: "Development of the ALOHANET," IEEE Trans.
- on Information Theory, vol. IT-31, pp.119-123, March 1985.)
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- This research lead directly to the Carrier Sense/Collision Detect technology
- used in the Ethernet and IEEE 802.3.
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- The performance attributes of this system has been thorugouhly researched.
- Basically, the result is that as load increases, throughput decreases.
- That is, the more pilots on the flight line, the more time it will take
- for your instructions to reach your airplane. This is due to packet collision,
- whose probability increases as the number of ready stations increases.
- The suggestion of using acknowledgements from the receiver will merely
- compound the problem of packet loss.
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- I reccommend A. Tannenbaum's Computer Networks, 2nd Edtion, Prentice Hall,
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988. This book clearly discusses this and other
- transmission techniques and protocols.
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- The CS/MD technology is an inherently unreliable datalink mechanism.
- Personally, I'll keep my Futaba.
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