High-Capacity Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Architecture and Performance Issues

✍ Scribed by Mischa Schwartz (auth.), Guy Pujolle (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 531
• Series: NATO ASI Series 72
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The main objective of this workshop was to review and discuss the state of the art and the latest advances· in the area of 1-10 Gbit/s throughput for local and metropolitan area networks. The first generation of local area networks had throughputs in the range 1-20 Mbit/s. Well-known examples of this first generation networks are the Ethernet and the Token Ring. The second generation of networks allowed throughputs in the range 100-200 Mbit/s. Representatives of this generation are the FDDI double ring and the DQDB (IEEE 802.6) networks. The third generation networks will have throughputs in the range 1-10 Gbit/s. The rapid development and deployment of fiber optics worldwide, as well as the projected emergence of a market for broadband services, have given rise to the development of broadband ISDN standards. Currently, the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) appears to be a viable solution to broadband networks. The possibility of all-optical networks in the future is being examined. This would allow the tapping of approximately 50 terahertz or so available in the lightwave range of the frequency spectrum. It is envisaged that using such a high-speed network it will be feasible to distribute high-quality video to the home, to carry out rapid retrieval of radiological and other scientific images, and to enable multi-media conferencing between various parties.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Network Management and Control in Broadband Telecommunication Networks: Research Issues and Some Partial Solutions....Pages 1-22
Wide Area Connectionless IEEE 802.6 MAN Services....Pages 23-39
New Access Schemes for Gbit/s LANs and MANs....Pages 41-57
Cell Switching and Access Schemes for HS-LANs and HS-MANs....Pages 59-71
High Speed Local Area Networks — What, why, when and how: Planning, installation and first experiences of a HSLAN in an heterogeneous environment....Pages 73-82
ONERA Gbit/s LAN: first experiment and use....Pages 83-117
LION and MAX, the experiences of two ESPRIT Projects on High-Speed MANs....Pages 119-145
Fault Tolerance and Circuit Service in Deflection Networks....Pages 147-159
A Linear Lightwave MAN Architecture....Pages 161-179
Routing in Large Metropolitan Area Networks Based on Wavelength-Division Multiplexing Technology....Pages 181-197
Impact of High Performance and Integrity Requirements on Metropolitan Area Network’s Architecture and Technology....Pages 199-207
Problems Arising from Deflection Routing: Live-lock, Lockout, Congestion and Message Reassembly....Pages 209-233
Towards Formal Structures for IEEE 802.6....Pages 235-251
Modelling of the DQDB Access Protocol and Closed-Form Approximation....Pages 253-265
Approximate Performance Model and Fairness Condition of the DQDB Protocol....Pages 267-283
An Analytical Model for the High Speed Protocol DQDB....Pages 285-297
Frame Delay Analysis of the DQDB Protocol....Pages 299-310
Fast Packet Switch Architectures and the Tandem Banyan Switching Fabric....Pages 311-344
An Approximation Analysis of a Shared Buffer ATM Switch Architecture under Bursty Arrivals....Pages 345-358
Some Results on Traffic Control and Resource Allocation in ATM networks....Pages 359-380
Reliable Broadcast and Agreement with Unreliable Asynchronous Highspeed LANs and MANs....Pages 381-395
Reliable Multicasting in High-speed LANs....Pages 397-412
Management Considerations in moving from a 10Mbit LAN to a 100 Mbit LAN....Pages 413-421
On Overload Control of High Speed Switching Nodes....Pages 423-438
Proposal-Petition Protocol: Models for Performance Evaluation....Pages 439-453
Design, Implementation and Performance Analysis of an ETHERNET to LION Gateway....Pages 455-469
Design and Analysis of Flow Control Protocols for Metropolitan Area Networks....Pages 471-492
Analysis of an Asymmetric Polling Model with Cycle-time Constraint....Pages 493-508
Waiting Times in Token Rings with Helical Window and Window-Gated Service....Pages 509-526
Priorities in ATM Networks....Pages 527-536
Back Matter....Pages 537-540

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Communications Engineering, Networks; System Performance and Evaluation; Business Information Systems