Title :
Dispersity routing on ATM networks
Author :
Maxemchuk, Nicholas F.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Dispersity routing is defined. It is combined with random access and fast circuit set-up and tear-down to put bursty data on an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. This approach makes the storage in the network independent of the message length. This approach is evaluated assuming that the propagation delay may be more than the message transmission time. It is shown that the efficiency improves as the number of channels on each path increases, and that dispersity routing makes it reasonable to use the strategy on networks with a small number of channels per path. Dispersity routing requires networks with multiple paths between many of the nodes. This characteristic is also required for many adaptive routing strategies. A class of networks is proposed in which the fraction of nodes with multiple paths, and the number of multiple paths between nodes, can be controlled. These networks provide a platform for evaluating multiple path strategies
Keywords :
asynchronous transfer mode; telecommunication network routing; adaptive routing; asynchronous transfer mode; dispersity routing; message length; message transmission time; multiple path evaluation; propagation delay; random access; Asynchronous transfer mode; Channel capacity; Image storage; Propagation delay; Routing; Switches; Switching circuits; Telecommunication control; Telecommunication switching; Time division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM '93. Proceedings.Twelfth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Networking: Foundation for the Future, IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3580-0
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.1993.253342