Many engineers and students experience difficulty in making senseof issues associated with IP and ATM teletraffic techniques. Thisis partly because of the subject itself: networks are flexible,complicated, and still evolving. However, some of the difficultiesarise because of the advanced mathematical methods that have beenapplied to provide analytic tools. The research literature aboundswith many and varied analytical approaches applied to a bewilderingarray of traffic mixes, switch designs and traffic controlmechanisms.
Introduction to IP and ATM Design and Performance provides: anintroduction to IP and ATM traffic issues; performance evaluationusing analysis and simulation; presentation of key formulasdescribing traffic and queueing behaviour and practical examples,graphs and tables for the design of wide area networks. Particularareas addressed include the fundamental traffic control functions:connection admission control; usage parameter control; prioritycontrol; queue scheduling and buffer management.
Features include:
· Clear Expansion of typical traffic and queueingbehaviour
· Simple exposition of fundamental performance evaluationmethods and techniques for ATM and IP
· All formulas are available in MathCAD files on the relatedweb-site
· Avoids the use of advanced mathematical methods
This simple intuitive approach is easy to follow and will benefitboth engineers in the telecommunications industry and undergraduateand postgraduate students in telecommunications, communicationsengineering, computer engineering courses.
J. M. Pitts
ATM Communication Technology - Networks Electrical & Electronics Engineering Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik IP Kommunikationsnetze Telekommunikation
"[the authors] introduce the design and performance issues surrounding Internet Protocol and Asynchronous Transfer Mode." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2001)
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