Open AccessA survey of IP over ATM architectures
Author(s) -
H. Chen,
Rose P. Tsang,
Joe Brandt,
J.A. Hutchins
Publication year - 1997
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/554171
Subject(s) - asynchronous transfer mode , workgroup , computer science , atm adaptation layer , the internet , quality of service , computer network , workstation , telecommunications , world wide web , operating system
Over the past decade, the Internet has burgeoned into a worldwide information highway consisting of approximately 5 million hosts on over 45,000 interconnected networks. This unprecedented growth, together with the introduction of multimedia workstations, has spurred the development of innovative applications that require high speed, low latency, and real-time transport. Today`s Internet can neither scale in its bandwidth nor guarantee the Quality of Services (QoS) necessary to meet these performance requirements. Many network researchers propose to use the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology as the underlying infrastructure for the next generation of workgroup, campus, and enterprise IP networks. Since ATM is significantly different from today`s legacy network technologies, efficient implementation of IP over ATM is especially challenging. This tutorial paper covers several existing proposals that integrate IP over ATM