In: FTCS 19: Proceedings of The Nineteenth International Sympsoium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1989, Chicago, IL, USA, pages 175-182. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, 1989.
Abstract: The authors present the results of a detailed performability evaluation of a local-area network using the IEEE 802.4 protocol. In particular a 30 station IEEE 802.4 token bus network operating in a hostile factory environment is evaluated using stochastic activity networks. Stochastic activity networks, a generalization of stochastic Petri nets, provide a convenient representation for computer networks and are formal enough to permit solution by both analysis and simulation.
Keywords: performability; token bus >network; transient fault condition; IEEE 802.4 protocol; stochastic activity network; stochastic net; simulation; local area network.