While it is technically pleasing to believe that IP will dominate all forms of communication,
our delight in its elegance is making us overlook its shortcomings. IP is an excellent means …

The motivation for this thesis is our desire to build faster routers and switches to
accommodate for Internet traffic growth. For the past few years, Internet traffic has been …

The motivation for this thesis is our desire to build faster routers and switches to
accommodate for Internet traffic growth. For the past few years, Internet traffic has been …

From the Publisher: What kind of switch can actually deliver the reduced latency, improved
QoS (quality of service), and greater bandwidth demanded by services such as …

We study the performance of an Internet that uses circuit switching (CS) instead of, or in
addition to, packet switching (PS). On the face of it, this would seem a pointless exercise; the …

From the Publisher: Complete and comprehensive coverage of packet switching concepts
and technologies The rapid growth of Internet traffic has spurred a new concentration on IP …

AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION hat a difference 25 years makes! When this article was written
the telecommunications industry was still a heavily regulated, non-competitive but highly …

To cope with the growth in the Internet and corporate IP networks, we require IP routers
capable of much higher performance than is possible with existing architectures. This article …

The principal approaches to switching in IP networks are covered in this timely book. The
collection of techniques is referred to by the generic term “label switching.” Label switching …

The large capacity of optical fibers suggests that circuit-switching may become a more
attractive switching method in future communication networks. We show, however, that …