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Ein international führender Spezialist erläutert in diesem Buch ATM-Netzwerke in allen Details. Ausgehend von der historischen Entwicklung dieser Netze behandelt er u.a. Signalisierung, Architektur, Übertragung und Standards von ATM, wobei er auch aktuellste Forschungsergebnisse berücksichtigt. Funktionen und Arbeitsweise von Highspeed-ATM-Netzen werden qualitativ beschrieben. Nützliche Zugabe ist ein ausführliches Glossar.

Traffic management and quality of service are techniques which, when applied to LAN, WAN and the Internet, facilitate the smooth flow of information. This text explains how to make convergence work - getting voice and data to flow without bottling up the network. Internet II is also covered.

ATM Network Performance describes a unified approach to ATM network management. The focus is on satisfying quality-of-service requirements for individual B-ISDN connections. For an ATM network of output-buffer switches, the author describes how the basic network resources (switch buffer memory and link transmission bandwidth) should be allocated to achieve the required quality-of-service connections. The performance of proposed bandwidth scheduling policies is evaluated. Both single node and end-to-end performance results are given. In particular, these results are applied to resource provisioning problems for prerecorded (stored) video and video teleconferencing. The flow control problem for available bit rate traffic is also described. This book is intended for a one-term course in performance of Broadband Integrated-Services Digital Networks (B-ISDNs) based on a type of packet-switched communication network called Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). The level of presentation is at the first year of graduate studies and for professionals working in the field, but it may be accessible to senior undergraduates as well. Some familiarity with ATM standards is assumed as such standards are only briefly outlined. All of the required background in discrete-time queueing theory is supplied. Exercises are given at the end of chapters. Solutions and/or hints to selected exercises are given in an Appendix.

Quality of Service (QoS) is a standards effort to provide consistent levels of service despite delivery problems. Providing students with an understanding of the technologies and techniques that will enable Internet QoS, this book is for courses in network management.

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.