Switching and Traffic Theory for Integrated Broadband Networks (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (91))

The rapid development of optical fiber transmission technology has created the possibility for constructing digital networks that are as ubiquitous as the current voice network but which can carry video, voice, and data in massive qlJantities. How and when such networks will evolve, who will pay for them, and what new applications will use them is anyone's guess. There appears to be no doubt, however, that the trend in telecommunication networks is toward far greater transmission speeds and toward greater heterogeneity in the requirements of different applications. This book treats some of the central problems involved in these networks of the future. First, how does one switch data at speeds orders of magnitude faster than that of existing networks? This problem has roots in both classical switching for telephony and in switching for packet networks. There are a number of new twists here, however. The first is that the high speeds necessitate the use of highly parallel processing and place a high premium on computational simplicity. The second is that the required data speeds and allowable delays of different applications differ by many orders of magnitude. The third is that it might be desirable to support both point to point applications and also applications involving broadcast from one source to a large set of destinations. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Integrated Broadband Services and Networks — An Introduction....Pages 1-22 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 Broadband Integrated Access and Multiplexing....Pages 25-51 Point-to-Point Multi-Stage Circuit Switching....Pages 53-83 Multi-Point and Generalized Circuit Switching....Pages 85-112 From Multi-Rate Circuit Switching to Fast Packet Switching....Pages 113-138 Applying Sorting for Self-Routing and Non-Blocking Switches....Pages 139-174 Front Matter....Pages 175-175 Terminal and Aggregate Traffic....Pages 177-210 Blocking for Single-Stage Resource Sharing....Pages 211-244 Blocking for Multi-Stage Resource Sharing....Pages 245-270 Queueing for Single-Stage Packet Networks....Pages 271-311 Queueing for Multi-Stage Packet Networks....Pages 313-341 Back Matter....Pages 343-347