Hot Topics in Networking including ATM, Multimedia and Wireless
Dr. Raj Jain, Professor, Ohio State U. (Code MF-RJ)
The field of networking is growing exponentially in both deployment
and development of new technologies. This makes it difficult for most
technical professionals to keep abreast of developments. This
tutorial is designed to give technical professionals an overview of
recent advances in networking. The tutorial begins with a
discussion of trends in networking and then provides an overview of
developments and technical issues in topics that are being hotly
debated in the networking community.
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Networking Trends
- Exponential Growth
- Technology Curve
- Impact of Standardization
- Trends in traffic
- Trends in Topology
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ATM Networks
- Overview & History
- Addressing vs Labels
- Protocol Structure
- Classes of Traffic
- ATM Adaptation Layers
- LAN Emulation
- Congestion Control: Rate vs Window debate
- Standard Documents
- Further Sources of Information
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High Speed Networking Challenges
- Networking Success and Failures
- Key ingredients for Success
- Diseconomy of scale
- High Performance
- Key for ATM to succeed
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All-Optical Networks
- Five Generations of Networks
- New Optical Technologies/Devices
- Optical Networking Architectures
- Examples of Recent Testbeds
- Issues in Optical networking
- Scalability
- Power dissipation
- Solitons
- Sources for Further Information
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Multimedia Networks
- Video Formats
- Compression Fundamentals
- Discrete Cosine Transform
- JPEG, MPEG, H.261
- Video on packet networks
- Characteristics of Video Traffic
- Inter-scene and Intra-scene models
- High-Definition Television
- Multimedia over IP
- Multimedia Synchronization
- Sources for Further Information
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Wireless Networks
- Mobile vs Wireless
- Wireless LANs
- Infrared, Radio, vs Spread Spectrum Technologies
- Wireless WANs
- IP Mobile Host Protocol
- Transport Layer Issues
- Mobile Computing Issues
- Sources for Further Information
Raj Jain is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the
Ohio State University. Before joining the University in April 1994,
he was a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation
and was involved in design and analysis of distributed systems and
networking architectures. He received a Ph.D. degree from Harvard
University in 1978 and has taught graduate courses in performance
analysis at MIT. He is the Vice-Chair of ACM SIGCOMM and serves on
the editorial boards of several journals. Dr. Jain holds several
patents, and has written more than 35 papers on networking performance.
He has delivered keynote addresses at several international conferences.
He received the Computer Press Award for "The Best How- To-Book,
Systems" for his 1991 book "The Art of Computer Systems
Performance Analysis" published by Wiley, New York. He is an ACM
Lecturer, an IEEE Distinguished Visitor and a Fellow of the IEEE.
His latest book, "FDDI Handbook: High Speed Networking using Fiber and
Other Media" has been published this year by Addison-Wesley, Reading,
Mass.
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