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Thesis (M. Engin.)--Flinders University, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics. / Typescript bound. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-133). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261).

As hardware becomes cheaper and cheaper, there is an increasing interest in the implementation of distributed control networks with microcontrollers. Such networks are usually inexpensive and of high performance. In this thesis work, a low-cost display control unit for COLAN, a control-oriented network, is designed. The system is based on the 8051 single-chip microprocessor and 82716 video controller. COLAN network users can remotely display and control the screen by sending commands to the display control node through the network. The emphasis of this thesis is in the implementation of the display control node, including hardware and software. It has been demonstrated that a basic set of display control functions has been developed, different type monitors can be supported, and on-screen instructions make the system easy to use. / Graduation date: 1991

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Xin Yuan, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 3, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.

Recently, simulation has became the most effective way for analyzing and perfecting the performance of telecommunication networks. It has proven itself as the best method in the realm of education, where the hardware capabilities for practical training are often limited. A simulated network enables students to practice hands-on network programming and to understand, in a practical way, how a data communication network operates and how protocols work.Metanet is an environment that enables the programmer to write networking applications and to test them as if using an IP network with the hosts connected through Ethernet. The whole software is a multi-process application that makes use of just the resources offered by a single machine. It runs on a UNIX system and emulates hosts that also communicate through an emulated network using TCP/IP. Each layer of the hosts' operating system is designed as a separate process that will communicate with the adjacent layers using socket pairs or UDP connections. The application layer has multi-processing capability. / Department of Computer Science

Software emulation of local area and wide area networks provides an alternative method for the design of such networks and for analyzing their performance. Emulation of bridges and routers that link networks together may provide valuable information regarding network congestion, network storms and the like before putting expensive hardware into place. Such an emulation also enables students taking a networking course to develop their own client-server applications and to visualize the basic functioning of the UDP/IP and RIP protocols.This thesis builds on the emulated local area network, Metanet, created by a previous graduate student. It adds the capability of attaching routers and bridges to multiple local and non-local emulated networks so that data may be transferred between two hosts on different segments of the same LAN (via an emulated bridge) or two different networks altogether (via an emulated router). The machines running the Metanet software should support UNIX which has Berkeley's Socket interface as emulated networks on different physical machines utilize this interface for communicating. A comparison of the new networking capabilities of Metanet and other experimental systems like XINU and MINIX is researched. / Department of Computer Science

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2005. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-117).

One of the local area network medium access control standards created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in IEEE Project 802 is the carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) medium access control. Numerous studies have been reported in the literature on the performance of CSMA/CD. These studies show that CSMA/CD performs well under light network load but not well at heavy load. To improve the performance of CSMA/CD under heavy load, a new concept called network partitioning is presented. Network partitioning allows the network to be partitioned into segments when under heavy load. Partition stations then act as bridges between the segments. The impact of network partitioning on network performance was tested using a simulation model of an Ethernet local area network (an implementation of the CSMA/CD medium access control). The simulation results show that network partitioning can improve the performance of CSMA/CD under heavy load.

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Xin Yuan, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 7, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.