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High-Performance Communication Networks
Jean Walrand,Pravin Varaiya +1 more
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This in-depth presentation of emerging technologies used to build high speed, high performance communication networks explains how the converging telephone, data, and CATV technologies are combined into high performance networks and how to plan, manage, and control these networks.Abstract:
Communication Networks--The center of the information revolution High performance networks are revolutionizing our lives in ways we cannot yet fully perceive. Meet your evolving needs with this in-depth presentation of emerging technologies used to build high speed, high performance communication networks. Authoritatively written, it explains how the converging telephone, data, and CATV technologies are combined into high performance networks, and how to plan, manage, and control these networks. An essential guide for networking professionals This book is well suited for a variety of networking needs. It enables network specialists and system administrators to make informed decisions for implementing and maintaining their companies' networks. It supplies network hardware and software developers with the tools to develop networking solutions, and it provides students in electrical engineering, computer science, operations research, and industry courses with a substantial introduction to networking principles. Features Explains the principles of network design and operation, and their implementation in state-of-the-art technologies such as Internet, high speed LANs and WANs, ISDN, ATM, BISDN, and SONET. Combines the perspectives of the communications engineer, the computer scientist and the economist to provide a system-level understanding of the core networking principles and technologies. Presents essential tools for analyzing, designing, and managing high performance networks. Provides unique coverage of economic issues including cost recovery and pricing schemes. Includes up-to-date coverage of delays, losses, admission control, routing, flow control, switching, networkplanning, pricing, and billing.read more
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Smith's principle for congestion control in high-speed data networks
TL;DR: The classical control theory and Smith's principle are exploited to design an algorithm for controlling "best effort" traffic in high-speed asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks that guarantees the stability of network queues, along with the fair and full utilization of network links.
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Providing Internet access: what we learn from INDEX
R. Edell,Pravin Varaiya +1 more
TL;DR: The Internet demand experiment, or INDEX, is a market and technology trial to determine how much users value different qualities of service for Internet access, which implies that today's system of flat-rate pricing by ISPs is very inefficient.
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Causes and cures of highway congestion
TL;DR: The authors argues that the facts do not support the belief that congestion occurs because demand exceeds capacity, so they support initiatives to build additional highway capacity or curtail highway travel demand, and they support proposals to make transit more attractive or automobile use more costly.
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An adaptive low-power transmission scheme for on-chip networks
TL;DR: This work introduces and shows first results on a novel interconnect system which uses low-swing signalling, error detection codes, and a retransmission scheme; it minimises the interconnect voltage swing and frequency subject to workload requirements and S/N conditions.
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