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INTEGRATED BROADBAND NETWORKS
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by Amit Bhargava
Codex Corp. (Motorola Inc.)
Here's an ideal opportunity to catch up on the latest research in
communication networks. The first book to address congestion control and
traffic integration in fast packet networks, Integrated Broadband
Networks describes how larger transmission bandwidths and more
sophisticated multi-media applications have created a demand for
integrated networks and how this demand has spawned new problems and
issues for the industry.
Organized into four sections, each of which presents a brief tutorial,
references, and six or seven papers, Integrated Broadband Networks
brings you up-to-date on key advances in network architectures,
switching, modeling and performance analysis, and congestion control and
traffic integration. Computer scientists and engineers will welcome this
collection of twenty-six outstanding papers painstakingly selected from
recent literature.
Section one addresses important aspects of new architectures for
integrated networks, particularly:
* Why fast packet switching is the technology of choice for
integrated broadband networks
* Differences between the refernce model for fast packet networks
and the traditional OSI model
* Architectural guidelines for designing integrated networks,
including resource management
* Proposals for future networks
Section two describes advances in broadband switching, focusing on:
* The theory of broadband switches
* A survey of the current state of the art and tradeoffs among
architectural alternatives
* Examples of switch architectures that have set the stage for a new
era in communication networks
* The importance of queueing structures to switch performance
Section three explains the characteristics of traffic types that will be
carried by integrated networks, stressing:
* The need for new modeling techniques for these different traffic types
* Characteristics of packetized voice, framed-data and constant bit-
rate traffic in the fast packet environment
* Analysis techniques for statistically multiplexed traffic
* Applications of modeling techniques in evaluating architectural
alternatives
Section four presents the latest research on congestion control and
traffic integration, in particular:
* The phenomenon of congestion in packet networks, its causes and
effects
* Algorithms for congestion control in fast packet networks
* Traffic integration by management of bandwidth and buffer
resources
state of the art of broadband switching and the latest analytical
techniques. To keep up with the latest trends in fast packet technology,
order your copy today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
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Amit Bhargava has been involved in conducting research
in networking technology at Codex Corp. (a subsidiary of Motorola Inc.)
since 1987. Since Fall 1989 he has also been a fellow at the Center of
Advanced Engineering Study at MIT. He received his MSEE from the Univ.
of Massachusetts, Amherst and his B.Tech. EE from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Bombay. Mr. Bhargava is a member of the IEEE.
CONTENTS: (Each section starts with a brief tutorial followed by selected
-------- reprints)
Section 1 - Evolution of Network Architectures:
Introduction, Impact of Traffic Diversity and Transmission Technology,
Fast Packet Reference Model.
J.S. Turner, Design of an Integrated Services Packet Network.
L. Zhang, Some Thoughts on the Packet Network Architecture.
J.H. Salzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark, End-to-End Arguments in System
Design.
I. Cidon and I.S. Gopal, PARIS: An Approach to Integrated High-Speed
Private Networks.
S.E. Minzer, Broadband ISDN and Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
P. O'Reilly, Implication of Very Wide Fiber Bandwidth for Network
Architecture.
Section 2 - Advances in Broadband Switching:
Introduction, Fast Packet Switching Fabrics, Analysis of Fast Packet
Switches, Other Related Research.
J.J. Degan, G.W.R. Luderer and A.K. Vaidya, Fast Packet Technology for
Future Switches.
H. Ahmadi and W.E. Denzel, A Survey of Modern High-Performance Switching
Techniques.
K.E. Batcher, Sorting Networks and their Applications.
A. Huang and S. Knauer, Starlite: A Wideband Digital Switch.
J.Y. Hui and E. Arthurs, A Broadband Packet Switch for Integrated Transport.
Y.-S. Yeh, M.G. Hluchyj and A.S. Acampora, The Knockout Switch: A Simple
Modular Architecture for High Performance Packet Switching.
M.G. Hluchyj and M.J. Karol, Queueing in High-Performance Packet Switching.
Section 3 - Modeling and Performance Analysis Techniques:
Introduction, Characterizing Traffic Sources,
Models for Multiplexed Traffic, Applications of Modeling Techniques.
R. Jain and S.A. Routhier, Packet Trains - Measurements and a New Model
for Computer Network Traffic.
A. Bhargava, P.A. Humblet and M.G. Hluchyj, Queueing Analysis of Continuous
Bit-Stream Transport in Packet Networks.
K. Sriram and W. Whitt, Characterizing Superposition Arrival Processes in
Packet Multiplexers for Voice and Data.
A.E. Eckberg, Approximations for Bursty (and Smoothed) Arrival Queueing Delays
based on Generalized Peakedness.
D. Anick, D. Mitra and M.M. Sondhi, Stochastic Theory of a Data-Handling
System with Multiple Sources.
A. Bhargava and M.G. Hluchyj, Frame Losses due to Buffer Overflows in Fast
Packet Networks.
A. Bhargava, J.F. Kurose, D. Towsley and G. VanLeemput, Performance Comparison
of Error Control Schemes in High-Speed Computer Communication Networks.
Introduction, Congestion Control in the Fast Packet Context,
Resource Management for Traffic Integration.
B.T. Doshi and H.Q. Nguyen, Congestion Control in ISDN Frame-Relay Networks.
A.E. Eckberg, D.T. Luan and D.M. Lucantoni, Meeting the Challenge:
Congestion and Flow Control Strategies for Broadband Information Transport.
R. Jain, K.K. Ramakrishnan and D.-M. Chiu, Congestion Avoidance in Computer
Networks with a Connectionless Network Layer.
Van Jacobson, Congestion Avoidance and Control.
A.A. Lazar, R. Gidron and A. Temple, A Switching Architecture for Asynchronous
Time Sharing.
A.G. Fraser and S.P. Morgan, Queueing and Framing Disciplines for a Mixture
of Data Traffic Types.
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Integrated Broadband Networks
by Amit Bhargava
Softcover, 331 pages, December 1990.
ISBN: 0-89006-483-0
Price $65.00
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