@article{ivs1998,
author = "E. N. Tsiotsios and G. C. Boukis and J. D. Angelopoulos and Venieris, Iakovos S.",
abstract = "A comparative study of the Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) and ATM Passive Optical Networks (APONs) is presented with emphasis on their application as access multiplexers to B-ISDN, offering traffic concentration and resource sharing. In this capacity, their performance impacts greatly on the quality of the demanding broadband services. This study is based on computer simulation using a novel modelling solution allowing the simulation to be distributed among a few workstations interconnected via a TCP/IP LAN. The performance comparison shows that DQDB offers lower Cell Delay Variation (CDV) and much lower mean delay although not equally well-bounded. This makes it a prominent candidate for the access role of customers requiring a high degree of quality. On the other hand, the APON, which was introduced with an aim to share the medium and the Optical Line Terminator (OLT) transceiver among a cluster of customers, presents a slightly worse but also acceptable performance in comparison with DQDB.",
journal = "Simulation",
month = "January",
number = "1",
pages = "41-55",
title = "{S}imulation {M}odelling for {P}erformance {C}omparison of {C}ell-based {A}ccess {N}etworks",
volume = "70",
year = "1998",
}