Overview

Abe, S., and T. Soumiya, A Traffic Control Method for Service Quality Assurance in an ATM Network, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 12, No. 2, Feb. 1994, pp. 322 331. Basically, a two-pronged, simulation-tested, approach to ATM congestion control. Short-term congestion is handled by dumping flagged (low-priority) cells. Long-term congestion is handled by sampling cell traffic and statistically predicting long-term trends from the data, and subsequently practicing intelligent call admission.

Abou-Arrage, G., and I. Merritt, Making the Journey to Enterprise Networking, Telesis, No. 98, May 1994, pp. 35 51. A high-level product description of NT s Magellan line consisting of the Concord backbone switch, the gateway, a concentrator and router, and the Passport, an edge (of the public network)/"enterprise" (customer premises) switch.

Acampora, A. S., An Introduction to Broadband Networks, LANs, MANs, ATM, B-ISDN, and Optical Networks for Integrated Multimedia Telecommunications, New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1994. A medium-difficulty introductory work covering the principles of broadband LANs, packet networks, MANs, ATM, performance issues (admission control, policing, flow and priority control, and self-learning strategies), and lightwave networks.

Adam, J. F., et al., Media-Intensive Data Communications in a Desk-Area Network, IEEE Communications Magazine, Aug. 1994, pp. 60 67. VuNet is an MIT project where several VuNet desk area networks are connected by Aurora s SONET/ATM net at 622 Mbps. Contains a number of neat ideas: (1) multimedia devices attached directly to the LAN as ATM devices; (2) software-intensive approach...