Tag switching is a way to combine the label-swapping forwarding paradigm with network layer routing. This has several advantages. Tags can have a wide spectrum of forwarding granu...
One of the most important network elements in the Internet are the routers which do relaying of IP packets. Because of growth of the Internet routers currently experience serious ...
ABR was standardised by the ATM Forum in 1996 . Source, destination and switch behaviours were specified. However, a lot of freedom was left to the switch manufacturers to impleme...
In this paper we study the correlation structure of the output process of an ATM multiplexer. We consider two special cases : (i) the output process of the D-BMAP/D/1/N queue, a g...
In this paper we discuss the need for resource reservation in the Internet and examine some of the strengths and weaknesses of RSVP, which is currently the most popular of Interne...
In modern IP networks, processing cost in network nodes is considered as a bottleneck. This problem is tackled with traffic based IP switching. The performance of traffic based IP...
: The attempt to provide QoS in IP networks has raised some interesting questions on how a service can be provided to meet the application requirements while obeying the network re...
Biswajit Nandy, Nabil Seddigh, A. S. J. Chapman, J...
We propose a protocol that controls the members of a multicast group that send periodically status reports to all members. The protocol, called Multicast Access Protocol (MAP), li...
With the grown popularity of the Internet and the increasing use of business and multimedia applications the users' demand for higher and more predictable quality of service ...