High-Performance Networks: From Ethernet to ATM

Pravin Varaiya

Scope and Audience

The short course is designed for those wishing to gain a broad and strategic understanding of recent developments in communication networks, including ATM. The intended audience includes engineers or computer scientists working in industry and with a broad responsbility in networking; and academics who have research or teaching interests in networking.

Outline

Introduction (1 hour)
- History of communication networks
- Networking principles
- Future networks
Network services and layered architectures (1.5 hour)
- Traffic types
- Network services
- Network mechanisms
- Layered architectures
Packet-switched and circuit-switched networks (1 hour)
- IP
- SONET
- CATV
ATM networks (1.5 hour)
- Characteristics
- Frame structure
- Adaptation layer
- Management layer
- IP over ATM
- BISDN
Control of ATM networks (1 hour)

Text: J. Walrand and P. Varaiya, High Performance Networks, Manuscript.

Lecturer

Pravin Varaiya is James Fife Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Califonia PATH, a multi-university program of research in Intelligent Transportation Systems. >From 1975 to 1992 he also was Professor of Economics at Berkeley. He has taught at MIT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories during 1962-63. Dr. Varaiya has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Miller Research Professorship. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He has co-authored two books and more than 150 papers. His areas of research are communication networks, transportation systems, and electric power systems. He is currently writing a book on High-Performance Networks with Jean Walrand.

Last modified: October 18, 1995