THE NORTH JERSEY CHAPTER OF THE IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
and
THE CENTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING RESEARCH
of
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Present
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AN ATM LOCAL COMPUTER NETWORK
by
NADER MIR
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
WHEN: Wednesday, September 27, 1995, 7:00 p.m. (pizza & soda at 6:45 p.m.)
WHERE: Room 202 of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Center, New Jersey
Institute of Tech.
ABSTRACT
In this talk, the performance of a local switching network using a Manhattan
street network (MSN) for high-speed ATM applications is evaluated. The MSN
has a cyclic structure and belongs to the class of deflection-routing networks.
We propose the use of shared buffering in the structure of each node. With
shared buffers, the network operates efficiently because the occurrence of
deflections is minimized. We develop a new analytical model for the MSN and
use it to study the traffic performance of this network. The new, key result
of this study is the need to scale the bandwidth of the MSN links in proportion
to the network size. Through this evaluation, we determine how much speed
advantage an MSN requires to become a practical switch. Numerical results of
the analysis are compared with numerical results of an extensive simulation
developed for this network.
BIOGRAPHY
Nader Mir (Mirfakhraei) received the B.Sc. degree (with honors) in electrical
engineering in 1985. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 1990 and 1994,
respectively. He is currently a research associate professor at the Advanced
Telecommunications Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken,
New Jersey.
For more information, contact Professor N. Ansari, (201) 596-3670,
e-mail: ang@faraday.njit