Broadband Packet Switching Technologies: A Practical Guide to ATM Switches and IP Routers

INDEX

Abacus switch:

architecture, 190–193

ATM routing and concentration chip, 208–211

enhanced configuration, 211–220

buffered multistage concentration network, 214–217

complexity comparisons, 219–220

memoryless multistage concentration network, 212–214

resequencing cells, 217–219

input port controller (IPC), 197–198

multicast contention resolution algorithm, 193–197

packet switching, 220–224

cell interleaving, 222–224

packet interleaving, 220–222

performance analysis, 198–208

average delay, 203–205

cell loss probability, 206–208

maximum throughput, 199–203

research issues, 189–190

Accept pointer, input-buffered switch scheduling:

iSLIP scheme, 60–62

iterative round-robin matching (iRRM), 60

Access point (AP):

SONET protocols, section access point identifier, 414–417

wireless ATM (WATM) switches, 339

Access point control protocol (APCP), wireless ATM (WATM) switches, 339–341

Acknowledgement (ACK) packet format, wireless ATM (WATM) switches, data link control layer, 347

Adaptive homing algorithm, wireless ATM (WATM) switches, BAHAMA wireless ATM LAN, 343

AddPrefix (X, Y, Z) algorithm, internet protocol UP) route lookups, two-trie structure, 399–402

Address broadcaster (AB):

abacus switch, architecture, 191–193

fault-tolerant multicast output-buffered ATM switch, fault detection, 173

multicast grouping networks (MGNs), 157–160

Address copy, multicast shared-memory switch, 99–101 ...