Complete and comprehensive coverage of packet switching concepts and technologies

The rapid growth of Internet traffic has spurred a new concentration on IP routers and ATM, MPLS, and optical switches. This book addresses the basics, theory, architectures, and technologies for implementing ATM switches and IP routers. It focuses on the architecture for the next generation of broadband switches and routers and provides detailed treatment of both theoretical and practical topics for professionals and students alike.

Broadband Packet Switching Technologies is written with engineers and industry researchers in mind. It describes the basic concepts and fundamentals of ATM switches and IP routers, then divides the switches into different categories. In each category, the authors discuss the operations, problems, strengths, and weaknesses of the switches in performance and implementation. Detailed solutions and algorithms are also provided. The authors also extend fundamental packet-switching concepts to wireless and fiber-optic networks.

Broadband Packet Switching Technologies fills the need for a textbook and reference dedicated to high-speed networking technologies that serves the specific needs of professionals in the telecommunications industry and provides expert material for students in related fields.

Expert coverage of the state of the art in quality of service implementation

Quality of Service Control in High-Speed Networks addresses the basics, theory, architectures, and technologies to implement QoS control in ATM, IP, and MPLS high-speed networks. It provides a comprehensive overview of existing QoS control techniques and describes practical approaches to their implementation.

The authors survey the most up-to-date developments in control strategies in self-contained chapters–complete with extensive reference lists–that allow study of select topics. Quality of Service Control in High-Speed Networks covers these topics and more:

• Admission control and data communication channel acceptance
• Traffic access control
• Packet scheduling algorithms
• Packet fair queuing implementation
• Buffer management
• Flow and congestion control
• QoS routing
• Basic architecture and conceptual models of differentiated services (DiffServ)
• Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) technology
• SONET and ATM

This comprehensive discussion of QoS technologies, techniques, and architectures suits the needs of engineering students as well as practitioners in software, hardware, and system design.

As Internet traffic grows and demands for quality of service become stringent, researchers and engineers can turn to this go-to guide for tested and proven solutions. This text presents the latest developments in high performance switches and routers, coupled with step-by-step design guidance and more than 550 figures and examples to enable readers to grasp all the theories and algorithms used for design and implementation.