Performance Analysis of the Bus Topology Network for Effectual Data Distribution

Stability, reliability, efficiency, and dependability necessitate a higher performance feature-based system in Ethernet LAN to meet the prevalent emergent technology of 5G and beyond 5G in the domain of networking. LAN technology has experienced the most progression since it came to reality. Despite its ability to achieve promising performance, the technology still keeps some topology characteristics that have a greater influence on its performance. This paper, therefore, addresses the high packet loss experienced in bus topology by investigating the performance of bus topology in four practical scenarios consisting of 10, 20, 30, and 40 nodes. In some applications, traffic was cautiously selected and configured in the application configuration to generate traffic for the modeling. These include HTTP, FTP, email, and databases before they were finally defined in the profile configuration. Substantial global and object statistics such as delay (sec), traffic-sent (bits/sec), traffic-received (bits/sec) for global, and throughput (bits/sec) for global were considered as network metrics for simulation in the OPNET environment. The results obtained proved that as the number of nodes increased, more traffic (bits/sec) were sent and received, more messages were delivered (bits/sec), the delay (sec) was lowered, but greater bit errors per packet were experienced in the network, thus making the bus topology not very suitable for a larger network.