Ebook: Performance Evaluation and Applications of ATM Networks

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.

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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. Topics discussed in this book include:

• ATM Traffic Modelling and Characterization;
• ATM Traffic Management and Control ATM Routing and Network Resilience;
• IP/ATM Networks Integration;
• ATM Special Topics: Optical, Wireless and Satellite Networks;
• Analytical Techniques for ATM Networks.

PerformanceEvaluation 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.

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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. Topics discussed in this book include:

• ATM Traffic Modelling and Characterization;
• ATM Traffic Management and Control ATM Routing and Network Resilience;
• IP/ATM Networks Integration;
• ATM Special Topics: Optical, Wireless and Satellite Networks;
• Analytical Techniques for ATM Networks.

PerformanceEvaluation 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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Stochastic Source Models and Applications to ATM....Pages 3-29
Fractals and Chaos for Modelling Multimedia ATM Traffic....Pages 31-50
Adaptive Statistical Multiplexing for Broadband Communication....Pages 51-80
Traffic Management in ATM Networks: An Overview....Pages 83-112
A Comparative Performance Analysis of Call Admission Control Schemes in ATM Networks....Pages 113-140
Traffic Control in ATM: A Review, an Engineer’s Critical View & a Novel Approach....Pages 141-172
Video Over ATM Networks....Pages 173-200
Optimal Resource Management in ATM Networks....Pages 201-226
ATM Multicast Routing....Pages 229-248
Embedding Resilience in Core ATM Networks....Pages 249-268
IP Switching Over ATM Networks....Pages 271-283
An Approach for Traffic Management Over G.983 ATM-based Passive Optical Networks....Pages 287-307
Wireless ATM: An Introduction and Performance Issues....Pages 309-332
Satellite ATM Networks....Pages 333-352
Performance Modeling and Network Management for Self-similar Traffic....Pages 355-386
Discrete-time ATM Queues with Independent and Correlated Arrival Streams....Pages 387-412
An Information Theoretic Methodology for QNMs of ATM Switch Architectures....Pages 413-448
Back Matter....Pages 450-452

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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. Topics discussed in this book include:

• ATM Traffic Modelling and Characterization;
• ATM Traffic Management and Control ATM Routing and Network Resilience;
• IP/ATM Networks Integration;
• ATM Special Topics: Optical, Wireless and Satellite Networks;
• Analytical Techniques for ATM Networks.

PerformanceEvaluation 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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Stochastic Source Models and Applications to ATM....Pages 3-29
Fractals and Chaos for Modelling Multimedia ATM Traffic....Pages 31-50
Adaptive Statistical Multiplexing for Broadband Communication....Pages 51-80
Traffic Management in ATM Networks: An Overview....Pages 83-112
A Comparative Performance Analysis of Call Admission Control Schemes in ATM Networks....Pages 113-140
Traffic Control in ATM: A Review, an Engineer’s Critical View & a Novel Approach....Pages 141-172
Video Over ATM Networks....Pages 173-200
Optimal Resource Management in ATM Networks....Pages 201-226
ATM Multicast Routing....Pages 229-248
Embedding Resilience in Core ATM Networks....Pages 249-268
IP Switching Over ATM Networks....Pages 271-283
An Approach for Traffic Management Over G.983 ATM-based Passive Optical Networks....Pages 287-307
Wireless ATM: An Introduction and Performance Issues....Pages 309-332
Satellite ATM Networks....Pages 333-352
Performance Modeling and Network Management for Self-similar Traffic....Pages 355-386
Discrete-time ATM Queues with Independent and Correlated Arrival Streams....Pages 387-412
An Information Theoretic Methodology for QNMs of ATM Switch Architectures....Pages 413-448
Back Matter....Pages 450-452
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