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Dqdbsim User's Manual, Lewis Barnett Iii

Department of Math & Statistics Technical Report Series

DQDBsim is a simulation program for the study of the performance of the Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) Metropolitan Area Network. The simulation is based on the description of DQDB found in [Ins90]. Only the Queued Arbitrated (QA) service is modeled by DQDBsim the inclusion of Prearbitrated (PA) service is under consideration for inclusion in a future release. This document contains a description of the program instructions for its use details of the formats of input and data files and information on other programs that are used cooperatively with DQDBsim.