Performance Evaluation and Applications of ATM Networks (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 557)

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. 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.

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 Satelite Networks
• 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.

The diversity of methodologies and applications in the literature for the performance modelling and analysis of ATM networks, widely considered as a new generation of high speed communication systems, attests to the breadth and richness of recent ATM research and developments. This work contains 17 tutorial papers by researchers and practitioners in the ATM field worldwide. It offers a source of reference, reflecting 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; optical, wireless and satelite networks; analytical techniques for ATM networks.; The text 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 that is already well known and introduces readers to some less familiar and unexplored ATM performance evaluation and application research areas. It is ideal for personnel in computer/communication industries as well as academic researchers in computer science and electrical engineering Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 1. Stochastic Source Models and Applications to ATM......Page 22 2. Fractals and Chaos for Modelling Multimedia ATM Traffic......Page 50 3. Adaptive Statistical Multiplexing for Broadband Communication......Page 70 4. Traffic Management in ATM Networks: An Overview......Page 102 5. A Comparative Performance Analysis of Call Admission Control Schemes in ATM Networks......Page 132 6. Traffic Control in ATM Networks: A Review, an Engineer’s Critical View and a Novel Approach......Page 160 7. Video over ATM Networks......Page 192 8. Optimal Resource Management in ATM Networks based on Virtual Path Bandwidth Control......Page 220 9. ATM Multicast Routing......Page 248 10. Embedding Resilience in Core ATM Networks......Page 268 11. IP Switching over ATM Networks......Page 290 12. An Approach for Traffic Management over G.983 ATM-based Passive Optical Networks......Page 306 13. Wireless ATM: An Introduction and Performance Issues......Page 328 14. Satellite ATM Networks......Page 352 15. Performance Modeling and Network Management for Self-Similar Traffic......Page 374 16. Discrete-Time ATM Queues with Independent and Correlated Arrival Streams......Page 406 17. An Information Theoretic Methodology for QNMs of ATM Switch Architecture......Page 432 Index......Page 468 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.