Broadband Communications, IIS. Tohme, A. Casaca The state-of-the-art of broadband communications - and its evolution - in both the public and private networks, is presented in this book. Particular consideration is given to the issues of switching, resource management, network control, communication services, testing, quality of service, traffic characteristics, traffic control and protocols. Invited papers further explore the fields of multimedia communication and traffic control, plus the introduction of ATM. |
Contents
Video coding and network support for multimedia services over | 3 |
Provision of the broaband connectionless data bearer service | 19 |
LANS Interconnection via ATM an Experimental prototype | 35 |
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AAL-PDU applications architecture Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM Adaptation Layer ATM cells ATM layer ATM network ATM switch ATMR B-ISDN B-UNI bandwidth BCLB Bearer Service bit rate Broadband Communications Broadband ISDN buffer burst cell arrival cell delay cell loss probability coding configuration connectionless defined destination distribution end-to-end evaluation fabric FDDI Figure format frame relay function Gbps header heavy traffic IEEE IFIP implementation input interconnection Interface ISDN isochronous isochronous traffic ITU-T jitter Leaky Bucket load low traffic Mbit/s method module multimedia multiplexing N-user network performance node number of cells output packet peak rate control propagation delay protocol QoS parameters queue requirements ring scenario scheme signalling simulation slots stations statistical multiplexing Subnetwork switching elements terminal throughput Transfer Mode transmission TRIBUNE variable variable bit rate virtual path VP Connection window