ATM Technology for Broadband Telecommunications Networks

Table of Contents......Page 1
Preface......Page 5
About the Authors......Page 7
I  Outline of the Book......Page 9
A  Scale of Investment......Page 10
D  Customer Driven Factors......Page 12
F  Influence of Computing on the Telecommunications Market......Page 13
III  Market Analysis for ATM Technology......Page 15
A  Residential Market......Page 18
B  Business Market......Page 19
C  Bandwidth Cost Trend......Page 21
D  Market Opportunities......Page 22
I  ATM Overview......Page 24
A  Virtual Path and Virtual Circuit Concepts......Page 29
B  Intefaces......Page 32
III  ATM Cell Structure......Page 34
A  Introduction......Page 35
B  Signaling Mechanism......Page 38
C  ATM Addressing......Page 42
V  ATM Switching Concepts......Page 43
VI  Routing Cells in ATM Networks......Page 51
VII  Call Setup......Page 52
I  Internet Service......Page 55
II  Video on Demand......Page 63
IV  Distant Learning/Medicine......Page 65
V  Telecommuting......Page 67
I  Wireless Networks......Page 70
II  Public Telephone Service Networks......Page 73
III  Data Networks......Page 74
IV  Cable-TV Networks......Page 78
V  Integration of Various Transport Technologies......Page 79
I  ATM Protocol Stack......Page 83
II  The Physical Layer......Page 86
A  PMD Sub-layer......Page 87
B  ATM Transmission Convergence (TC) Layer......Page 88
III  The ATM Layer......Page 91
A  ATM Layer Functions......Page 93
B  ATM Cell Types......Page 98
A  AAL Structure......Page 99
B  Classification Based on AAL Service Attributes......Page 103
C  ATM Adaptation Layer Functions......Page 104
I  Variable Bandwidth Allocation......Page 107
II  Virtual Path and Virtual Channel Concepts......Page 109
III  Constant Bit Rate......Page 111
IV  Variable Bit Rate......Page 112
V  Unspecified Bit Rate......Page 113
VI  Available Bit Rate......Page 114
I  Buffering Models for ATM Switching Networks......Page 116
B  Output Buffering......Page 117
C  Central Buffering......Page 118
II  Routing Models for ATM Switching Networks......Page 119
B  Blocking MINs......Page 121
IV  Buffer Management......Page 123
V  Broadcast and Multicast Requirements for ATM Switching Networks......Page 124
VI  ATM Switch Architecture......Page 126
8  ATM Traffic Management: Traffic Enforcement and Traffic Shaping......Page 133
I  The Traffic Contract......Page 136
II  Basic Quality of Service (QoS) Parameters......Page 141
III  Connection Admission Control......Page 151
IV  Usage/Network Parameter Control (UPC/NPC)......Page 154
V  ATM Service Categories......Page 167
VI  Traffic Shaping......Page 172
VII  Flow Control and Congestion Control......Page 177
A  LANE Architecture......Page 183
C  LAN Emulation User to Network Interface (LUNI)......Page 187
D  LANE Connection......Page 189
E  Basic Operations Flow for LEC......Page 192
F  LANE Connection Management......Page 194
II  Classical IP and ARP over ATM......Page 196
A  LIS Configuration and Operation......Page 198
III  Multi-Protocol over ATM (MPOA)......Page 200
A  MPOA Architecture......Page 203
B  MPOA Operations......Page 204
1  Structured CES......Page 207
2  Unstructured CES......Page 208
C  Timing......Page 211
E  VTOA to the Desktop......Page 214
10  ATM Traffic Simulation......Page 217
I  Queuing Model for the ATM Traffic Simulation......Page 221
II  ATM Traffic Model......Page 224
III  Validation of Simulation Results......Page 225
IV  Simulation Results......Page 228
A  ITU-T Recommendations for ATM......Page 236
B  ATM Forum Specifications......Page 240
C  IEFT's ATM-Related RFC Standards......Page 246
D  ANSI T1 Committee Specifications for ATM......Page 248
II  Ongoing ATM Standardization Activities......Page 249
B  Current Standardization Actitivities in ATM Forum (as of February 1998)......Page 250
C  IETF's Current Standardization Activities......Page 253
References......Page 254
ATM Acronyms......Page 257
Glossary......Page 266
Index......Page 280