ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 focused on Ethernet network performance and developed a mathematical model to determine the frame rate based on different frame lengths. The results of that model were then used to determine the information transfer capability of a 10-Mbps Ethernet network based on different frame sizes. As you might intuitively expect, the use of larger frames provided a higher information transfer capability because each Ethernet frame is separated from preceding and succeeding frames by a uniform time gap. Thus, longer frames were expected to be more efficient and this was determined to be true.
