Performance evaluation of ATM switches under various traffic and buffering schemes

Author

Hamdi, Mounir ; Muppala, Jogesh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, Hong Kong

Volume

2

fYear

1995

Firstpage

828

Abstract

B-ISDN networks are designed to offer a variety of services with bit rates ranging from several kb/s to hundreds of Mb/s, and in some cases approaching Gb/s. A multiplicity of rates and the burstiness of traffic sources lead naturally to systems based on the fast packet switching (or asynchronous transfer mode) concept. The requirement of data buffering and high-speed processing of packet headers have resulted in a plethora of proposals for ATM switching nodes. In particular, the class of nonblocking ATM switches has received the most attention. This paper reviews this class with emphasis on contention resolution methods and communication traffic performance

Keywords

B-ISDN; asynchronous transfer mode; buffer storage; packet switching; telecommunication traffic; B-ISDN networks; Batcher Banyan network; buffering schemes; burstiness; communication traffic performance; contention resolution methods; data buffering; fast packet switching; high-speed processing; nonblocking ATM switches; packet headers; performance evaluation; reviews; traffic schemes; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Communication switching; Computer science; Fabrics; Packet switching; Sorting; Switches; Telecommunication switching; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1995. GLOBECOM '95., IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2509-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1995.502046

Filename

502046