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Internet traffic is increasing by at least 200% per year and the world s largest Internet Service Provider expects traffic on its regional trunks to grow to a 1-10 petabit range over the next four to five years. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), long-haul fiber-optic links and high-capacity all-optical circuit switches are now being used in the Internet core to handle this traffic, creating demand for the high-performance packet switches (IP routers, ATM switches, and Ethernet Switches) which feed this optical core.In the last ten years, tremendous technological advances have taken place to meet these objectives. This is the first book to cover these advances in a comprehensive survey. It provides integrated coverage of the state-of-the-art in packet-switching technology by presenting contributions from the leading researchers in industry and universities.A mix of theoretical and practical material makes this book an essential reference for researchers in academia as well as industrial engineers.
List of contents
Input-Queued Switches.- Combined Input-Output Queued (CIOQ) Switches.- Output Queued Switches and Output Link Schedulers.- Hybrid Architectures.- Active Queue Management (AQM).- Optical Switching Fabrics.
About the author
Dr Itamar Elhanany is an assistant professor in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Between 2000-2003 he was the chief scientist and co-founder of TeraCross Inc., a semiconductor company offering Terabit/sec switch fabric integrated circuits. His research areas include high-speed packet switching, scheduling algorithms and network performance analysis.
Dr Mounir Hamdi is a professor of computer science and the director of the computer engineering division at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His general areas of research are in high-speed packet switches/routers and all-optical networks, on which he has published more than 200 research publications.
Summary
Internet traffic is increasing by at least 200% per year and the world’s largest Internet Service Provider expects traffic on its regional trunks to grow to a 1-10 petabit range over the next four to five years. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), long-haul fiber-optic links and high-capacity all-optical circuit switches are now being used in the Internet core to handle this traffic, creating demand for the high-performance packet switches (IP routers, ATM switches, and Ethernet Switches) which feed this optical core.
In the last ten years, tremendous technological advances have taken place to meet these objectives. This is the first book to cover these advances in a comprehensive survey. It provides integrated coverage of the state-of-the-art in packet-switching technology by presenting contributions from the leading researchers in industry and universities.
A mix of theoretical and practical material makes this book an essential reference for researchers in academia as well as industrial engineers.
