Publisher's Synopsis
Performance Evaluation of High Speed Switching Fabrics and Networks ATM, Broadband ISDN, and MAN Technology A handy source for practicing engineers and researchers, this book offers collected examples of successful performance evaluations of high speed telecommunication switching fabrics such as ATM networks and high speed interconnection technology for computers. It emphasizes the performance evaluation of such switches as they apply to predicting a proposed system’s performance through the use of statistical models a cost–saving way for communications engineers to test the design of a system without having to construct it. Key topics include:
- the design of ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) switching systems and MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) distributed switching systems
- the complete coverage of all major architectures proposed to date
- real–world problems in the design of such next–generation packet switching systems as: nonuniform traffic, hot spots, packet trains, correlated traffic, and buffer sizing