Maximum Connectivity in MultiNet

We use the simulation environment of Section 7.5.1 to evaluate the performance on increasing the number of connected networks. Table 4 presents the average delay seen by packets over the infrastructure network on varying the number of MultiNet networks from 2 to 6. We used a Fixed Priority switching strategy with equal priorities to all the networks. An increase in the number of connected networks results in a smaller Activity Period for each connected network when using Fixed Priority Switching. As a result, more packets are buffered and the average delay encountered by the packets on a network increases. This is shown in Table 4.

Table 4: The average packet delay in infrastructure mode on varying the number of MultiNet connected networks

Num Networks	Avg Delay (in Seconds)
2	0.191
3	0.261
4	0.332
5	0.410
6	0.485