High Performance Networks: Frontiers and Experience / Edition 1

by Ahmed N. Tantawy

Overview

'The world of information processing is going through a major phase of its evolution. Networking has been associated with computers since the 1960's. Communicating machines, exchanging information or cooperating to solve complex problems, were the dream of many scientists and engineers. Rudi­ mentary networks and prools were invented. Local area networks capable of carrying a few megabits per second became basic components of corporate computing installations in the 1980's. At the same time, advances in optical transmission and switching technologies made it possible to transfer billions of bits per second. 'The availability of this huge bandwidth is making people wonder about the seemingly unlimited possibilities of these "fat information pipes" A new world where all interesting up-to-date information becomes instantaneously available to everyone everywhere is often portrayed to be around the comer. New applications are envisioned and their requirements are defined. 'The new field of High Performance Networking is burgeoning with activities at various levels. Several frontiers are being explored simultaneously. In order to achieve more bandwidth and better performance, work is progressing in optical transmission, high speed switching and network resource manage­ ment. Some researchers have started to investigate all-optical networking as a promising approach to remove the relatively slow electronics from the network infrastructure. This will also introduce a new environment with unique characteristics that will have a definite impact on network architectures, topologies, addressing schemes, and prools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792393726
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/31/1993
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #238
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

I Experimental High Performance Networks.- 1. Aurora: An Experiment in Gigabit Network Technologies.- 2. From Broadband ISDN to Multimedia Communication: The Berkom Programme.- 3. MultiG — Distributed Multimedia Applications on Gigabit Networks with Wireless Extensions.- 4. Design and Implementation of the HANGMAN Gbit/s Network.- 5. The IBM Zurich Research Laboratory’s 1.13 Gb/s LAN/MAN Prototype.- 6. RAINBOW: A Prototype All-Optical Network.- II High Performance Prool Implementation.- 7. TCP/IP on Gigabit Networks.- 8. An Overview of the TP+ + Transport Prool Project.- 9. Parallelism in Communication Subsystems.- 10. Host Interfaces for ATM Networks.