Performance Evaluation and Applications of Atm Networks

Kouvatsos, Demetres D. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0792378512 / ISBN 13: 9780792378518

Published by Springer, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Performance Evaluation and Applications of Atm Networks
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792378512
• ISBN 13: 9780792378518
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Information Highways are widely considered as the next generation of high speed communication systems. These highways will be based on emerging Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks (B-ISDN), which - at least in principle - are envisioned to support not only all the kinds of networking applications known today but also future applications which are not as yet understood fully or even anticipated. Thus, B-ISDNs release networking processes from the limitations which the communications medium has imposed historically. The operational generality stems from the versatility of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) which is the transfer mode adopted by ITU-T for broadband public ISDN as well as wide area private ISDN. A transfer mode which provides the transmission, multiplexing and switching core that lies at the foundations of a communication network. ATM is designed to integrate existing and future voice, audio, image and data services. Moreover, ATM aims to minimise the complexity of switching and buffer management, to optimise intermediate node processing and buffering and to bound transmission delays. These design objectives are met at high transmission speeds by keeping the basic unit of ATM transmission - the ATM cell - short and of fixed length.

Synopsis

The diversity of methodologies and applications in the literature for the performance modelling and analysis of ATM networks, widely considered as the new generation of high speed communication systems, attests to the breadth and richness of recent ATM research and developments. "Performance Evaluation and Applications of ATM Networks" contains seventeen tutorial papers by eminent researchers and practitioners in the ATM field worldwide. It offers a fundamental source of reference, reflecting essential state-of-the-art material for further research and development in the performance evaluation and applications field of ATM networks.The topics discussed in this book include: ATM Traffic Modelling and Characterization; ATM Traffic Management and Control ATM Routing and Network Resilience; and IP/ATM Networks Integration. The ATM special topics are: Optical, Wireless and Satellite Networks; and Analytical Techniques for ATM Networks. "Performance Evaluation and Applications of ATM Networks" maintains throughout an effective balance between descriptive and quantitative approaches for the presentation of important ATM mechanisms and performance evaluation techniques.

It unifies ATM performance modelling material already known and introduces readers to some unfamiliar and unexplored ATM performance evaluation and application research areas. "Performance Evaluation and Applications of ATM Networks" is ideal for personnel in computer/communication industries as well as academic researchers in computer science and electrical engineering.