Interworking between IFMP switching and B-ISDN access protocols

Author

Cipriani, L. ; Di Giorgio, D. ; Pugliese, M. ; Salsano, S.

Author_Institution

Ericsson Telecomunicazioni SpA, Univ. La Sabienza, Rome, Italy

fYear

1997

fDate

2-4 Dec 1997

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

32

Abstract

IP traffic is growing every day and it is reasonable that IP routers will become bottlenecks in the near future. A solution seems to be the IP switching approach. This approach consists in the coupling of IP routing to fast hardware switching, typically ATM. In this work we are focused on a particular IP switching paradigm, the Ipsilon flow management protocol (IFMP). Nowadays IFMP switching is supported within LAN environments. Our effort is focused to export IFMP switching to WAN environments, in particular to public ATM backbones. In this work we introduce an interworking mechanism to couple IFMP switching to B-ISDN access signaling capabilities (ITU 0.2931). This mechanism is fully compliant to both IFMP protocol and B-ISDN signaling. Detailed simulations, using SDT tools, of this interworking mechanism has been carried on and is described

Keywords

B-ISDN; access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; computer network management; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication signalling; wide area networks; ATM; B-ISDN access protocols; IFMP switching; IP routers; IP routing; IP switching approach; IP traffic; ITU 0.2931; Ipsilon flow management protocol; SDT tools; WAN; access signaling capabilities; bottlenecks; fast hardware switching; interworking; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; B-ISDN; Communication switching; Hardware; Local area networks; Routing; Switches; Telecommunication switching; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Switching Systems Proceedings, 1997. IEEE BSS '97., 1997 2nd IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Taiwan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4443-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BSS.1997.658887

Filename

658887