Bursty data traffic via satellite: Performance comparison between two TDMA access schemes

This paper reports the simulation results of performance comparison between two centralised thin route TDMX satellite access schemes, in terms of bursty data transmission delay in the contest of LAN interconnection traffic. The schemes compared are CFRA((1)) and FODA/IBEA((2)). The study is limited to the bursty traffic generated by the LAN, which consists of a mixture of interactive and non interactive data. The simulation tool used is FRACAS((3)), which was designed and implemented at CNUCE for the performance evaluation of satellite access schemes.