High speed protocols for dual bus and dual ring network architectures

In this dissertation, two channel access mechanisms providing fair and bandwidth efficient transmission on dual bus and dual ring networks with high bandwidth-latency product are proposed. In addition, two effective priority mechanisms are introduced to meet the throughput and delay requirements of the diverse arrays of applications that future high speed networks must support. For dual bus architectures, the Buffer Insertion Bandwidth Balancing (BI_BWB) mechanism and the Preemptive priority Bandwidth Balancing (P_BI_BWB) mechanism are proposed. BI_BWB can significantly improve the delay performance of remote stations. It achieves that by providing each station with a shift register into which the station can temporarily store the upstream stations\u27 transmitted packets and replace these packets with its own transmissions. P_BI_BWB, an enhancement of BI_BWB, is designed to introduce effective preemptive priorities. This mechanism eliminates the effect of low priority on high priority by buffering the low priority traffic into a shift register until the transmission of the high priority traffic is complete. For dual ring architectures, the Fair Bandwidth Allocation Mechanism (FBAM) and the Effective Priority Bandwidth Balancing (EP_BWB) mechanism are introduced. FBAM allows stations to reserve channel bandwidth on a continuous basis rather than wait until bandwidth starvation is observed. Consequently, FBAM does not have to deal with the difficult issue of identifying starvation, a serious drawback of other access mechanisms such as the Local and Global Fairness Algorithms (LFA and GFA, respectively). In addition, its operation requires a significantly smaller number of control bits in the access control field of the slot and its performance is less sensitive to system parameters. Moreover, FBAM demonstrates Max-Min flow control properties with respect to the allocation of bandwidth among competing traffic streams, which is a significant advantage of FBAM over all the previously proposed channel access mechanisms. EP_BWB, an enhancement of FBAM to support preemptive priorities, minimizes the effect of low priority on high priority and supports delay-sensitive traffic by enabling higher priority classes to preempt the transmissions of lower priority classes. Finally, the great potential of EP_BWB to support the interconnection of base stations on a distributed control wireless PCN carrying voice and data traffic is demonstrated

Application of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (Atm) technology to Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (Pacs): A survey

Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (R-ISDN) provides a range of narrowband and broad-band services for voice, video, and multimedia. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) has been selected by the standards bodies as the transfer mode for implementing B-ISDN; The ability to digitize images has lead to the prospect of reducing the physical space requirements, material costs, and manual labor of traditional film handling tasks in hospitals. The system which handles the acquisition, storage, and transmission of medical images is called a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The transmission system will directly impact the speed of image transfer. Today the most common transmission means used by acquisition and display station products is Ethernet. However, when considering network media, it is important to consider what the long term needs will be. Although ATM is a new standard, it is showing signs of becoming the next logical step to meet the needs of high speed networks; This thesis is a survey on ATM, and PACS. All the concepts involved in developing a PACS are presented in an orderly manner. It presents the recent developments in ATM, its applicability to PACS and the issues to be resolved for realising an ATM-based complete PACS. This work will be useful in providing the latest information, for any future research on ATM-based networks, and PACS

Quality of service over ATM networks

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Satellite Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Technologies

Since global satellite networks are moving to the forefront in enhancing the national and global information infrastructures due to communication satellites' unique networking characteristics, a workshop was organized to assess the progress made to date and chart the future. This workshop provided the forum to assess the current state-of-the-art, identify key issues, and highlight the emerging trends in the next-generation architectures, data protocol development, communication interoperability, and applications. Presentations on overview, state-of-the-art in research, development, deployment and applications and future trends on satellite networks are assembled

Netzwerk-Management und Hochgeschwindigkeits- Kommunikation. Teil XII

Der vorliegende interne Bericht enthält die Beiträge zum Seminar "Netzwerkmanagement und Hochgeschwindigkeitskommunikation", das im Sommersemester 1995 zum zwölften Mal abgehalten wurde. Entsprechend dem Titel ist der Band in zwei Teile gegliedert. In dem Teil "Netzwerkmanagement" werden in den ersten beiden Kapiteln Fragen der MIB-Implementierung behandelt. Die beiden folgenden Beiträge führen in Problemstellungen der Verwaltung verteilter Anendungen ein und stellen jeweils Forschungsergebnisse aus aktuellen Veröffentlichungen vor. Das letzte Kapitel dieses Teils führt in das Konzept des "Network Managemen by Delegation" ein. Der zweite Teil des Seminars befaßt sich mit aktuellen Fragestellungen zum Bereich "Hochgeschwindigkeitskommunikation", insbesondere zu ATM und FDDI. Die ersten beiden Beiträge widmen sich dem Einsatz von Vorwärts- fehlerkorrekturverfahren und der Diskussion zweier Signalisierungsprotokolle in ATM-Netzen. Es folgen eine Vorstellung von Mechanismen zur Bereitstellung eines verbindungslosen Dienstes sowie von Verfahren zur kreditbasierten Flußkontrolle, beide ebenfalls im Bereich ATM-Netze. Die darauffolgenden Beiträge diskutieren Mechanismen zur effizienteren Implementierung von Protokollfunktionen sowie Ansatzpunkte für ein mögliches Hardware/ Software Codesign. Das Seminar schließt mit Abhandlungen über Verfahren zur Regelung der Nutzungskontrolle von Diensten in ATM-Netzen und einer Beschreibung des GIGASwitch/FDDI-Systems