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- comp.dcom.cell-relay FAQ: ATM and related technologies (Rev 1997/10/06)
- Part 3 - Introduction and Topic C of FAQ
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- TOPIC C
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- ATM REFERENCES
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-
- C1. What are some good getting started ATM references?
- C2. General ATM References
- C3. ATM information on the Internet
- C4. How can I get the ATM Forum's Interface Specifications?
- C5. List of ITU-T Recommendations concerning ATM.
- C6. Internet drafts from IETF working groups.
- C7. ATM Tutorials.
- C8. Contact information for ANSI T1S1 specifications.
- C9. Internet RFCs.
- C10. ATM and Related Acronyms.
- C11. Literature and papers on the self-similar (fractal) property of
- traffic?
- C12. How can I get copies of ITU-T documents?
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- SUBJECT C1)
-
- What are some good getting started ATM references?
-
- Generally it is impossible to pick up any communications related technical
- journal, conference, or trade publication and not find something about ATM.
- However here are a few suggestions.
-
- For *beginning* reading there are all sorts of ATM primers on the web.
- These freely available primers are the best place to start. Several
- pointers can be found in subject C7 "ATM Tutorials" of this FAQ. You can
- find others by doing a search on the WEB. Many communication vendors have
- good tutorials on their WEB sites. For starters try:
-
- http://www.cisco.com
- http://www.trillium.com
- http://www.3com.com
-
- Another suggestion is to try the atmforum website and go through past
- issues of "53 bytes", their newsletter.
-
- There are several books recommend for *intermediate* reading. These are
- good for an engineer's basic understanding of most issues. Others are
- listed in subject C2 "General ATM References" of this FAQ.
-
- "Asynchronous Transfer Mode", Martin De Prycker, Ellis Horwood, New York
- 1996, ISBN 0-13-178542-7.
- Very readable general description of the technology and optimization.
- This book is now in its third edition.
-
- "ATM - solutions for enterprise internetworking", David Ginsburg,
- Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-87701-5.
-
- "ISDN and Broadband ISDN with Frame Relay and ATM", William Stallings,
- third edition, Prentice-Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-02-415513-6.
- Third edition of Stallings ISDN book which now contains coverage of
- ATM and frame relay. The book is intended to be both a professional
- reference and a textbook.
-
- "Gigabit Networking", Craig Partridge, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1993,
- ISBN 0-201-56333-9.
- Very well written book. Craig is the Editor of "IEEE Network"
- magazine. Topics: fiber optics, cell networking, ATM, Gbps packet
- schemes, applications, host interface, higher protocols, bandwidth
- management and performance, distributed systems, etc.
-
- For *advanced* reading I'd recommend you actually read the ATM
- specifications as published by the ATM Forum, and the IETF RFC's that deal
- with ATM: Traffic Management, UNI, MPOA, PNNI, etc. See subject C4 in the
- FAQ for ways to obtain ATM Forum documents. See subject C9 in the FAQ for
- ways to obtain IETF RFC's.
-
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- SUBJECT C2)
-
- General ATM References
-
- Quite a lot has been written about ATM in the 80's and 90's. Most of what
- has been written before 1990 primarily deals with the application of ATM to
- Broadband ISDN. That which is written from 1990 onward cover the explosion
- of ATM development in the carrier environment as well as in enterprise
- networks, LANs, wireless, etc.
-
- Note that a subset of these references, grouped in beginner, intermediate,
- and advance categories are listed in subject C1 "What are some good getting
- started ATM References?".
-
- Please be aware that because of the pace of ATM standardization, reference
- books and conference proceedings rapidly become out-of-date. However, the
- following references offer a good base of background information. I have
- retained some of the older references in this list since they provide the
- foundation on which other applications of ATM have been based and therefore
- should not be over looked.
-
- General:
- "Issues and Challenges in ATM Networks", Communications of the ACM,
- February 1995, VOL. 38, NO. 2
- Surveys ATM concepts and networks, security issues, traffic
- management, TCP/IP over ATM, etc.
- "Data Communications Special Guide", IEEE Spectrum, 8/91, p.22.
- Hi-level overview of high-speed lans, wans, bisdn, atm, with
- glossary and bibliography.
- IEEE Communications Magazine, April 1992, VOL. 30, NO. 4
- This is a special issue with six articles on gigabit networks
- technology.
- Rainer Handel and Manfred Huber. "Integrated Broadband Networks: An
- Introduction to ATM-Based Networks". Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN
- 0-201-54444-X.
- "Buyer's Guide for ATM Switches," Network World, October 9, 1995,
- p.47.
- Offers a general overview of what to look for in an ATM switch
- and lists products (with features and prices) from 23 vendors.
- The full text of the article (maybe a more up to date) may be
- found at http://www.nwfusion.com
-
- ATM:
- "Asynchronous Transfer Mode", Martin De Prycker, Ellis Horwood, New
- York 1996, ISBN 0-13-178542-7.
- Very readable general description of the technology and
- optimization. This book is now in its third edition.
- "ATM - solutions for enterprise internetworking", David Ginsburg,
- Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-87701-5.
- "High-Speed Networks: TCP/IP and ATM Design Principles", William
- Stallings, Prentice-Hall, 1997; ISBN 0-13-525965-7.
- "Gigabit Networking", Craig Partridge, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA,
- 1993, ISBN 0-201-56333-9.
- Very well written book. Craig is the Editor of "IEEE Network"
- magazine. Topics: fiber optics, cell networking, ATM, Gbps packet
- schemes, applications, host interface, higher protocols,
- bandwidth management and performance, distributed systems, etc.
- "ISDN and Broadband ISDN with Frame Relay and ATM", William Stallings,
- third edition, Prentice-Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-02-415513-6.
- Third edition of Stallings ISDN book which now contains coverage
- of ATM and frame relay. The book is intended to be both a
- professional reference and a textbook.
- "ISDN", Gary Kessler, McGraw-Hill, Second Edition, 1993.
- "ATM: Theory and Application", David E. McDysan and Darren L. Spohn,
- McGraw-Hill, 1995, ISBN 0-07-060362-6.
- Thorough, practical, and covers a broad range.
- "ATM Networks - Concepts, Protocols, Applications", Haendel R., Huber
- M., Schroeder S., 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN
- 0-201-42274-3.
- "Broadband ISDN and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)", IEEE
- Communications, 9/89.
- Describes most of the jargon as well as the paradigm and
- unresolved issues. One point to note is that the article is
- fairly old (1989) and some things have changed. For example, the
- ATM cell headers described are no longer valid.
- "Asynchronous Transfer Mode: Solution for Broadband ISDN", Martin de
- Prycker, Ellis Horwood, New York, 1991. ISBN 0-13-053513-3
- See Martin's more recent book below.
- "Data and Computer Communications", 5th ed., W. Stallings. Prentice
- Hall 1997. Cloth. ISBN: 0-02-415425-3.
- Two other books mentioned: Spohn & McDysan's "ATM" book (1995,
- McGraw-Hill) and Walter Goralski's "ATM" book (also 1995,
- McGraw-Hill). No titles/ISBN as someone just mentioned them on the
- cell-relay list as containing info on switch architectures, etc.
-
- SMDS:
- "SMDS - Wide-Area Data Networking with Switched Multi-Megabit Data
- Service",
- Robert W. Klessig, Kaj Tesink, Prentice Hall, 1994, ISBN:
- 0-13-814807-4
-
- SWITCH FABRICS:
- These papers offer a jump start on ATM switch architectures, design
- issues and tradeoffs.
- H. Ahmadi and W. Denzel, "A Survey of Modern High-Performance
- Switching
- Techniques", IEEE J on Selected Areas in Comm, Vol. 7, No. 7,
- Sept 1989, p. 1091-1103
- F. Tobagi, "Fast Packet Switch Architectures for Broad-band Integrated
- Services Digital Networks", Proceedings of IEEE, Vol. 78, No. 1,
- Jan. 1990 p. 133-167
- Joseph Y. Hui, "Switching and Traffic Theory for Integrated Broadband
- Networks", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991, ISBN 0-7923-9061-X
- A back to basics text book explaining core switching concepts
- like batcher/banyon, clos, min, buffering, etc.
-
- Technical journals (an easy source of information)
- IEEE Network
- IEEE Communications
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
- Computer Communication Review (by ACM SIGCOMM)
- Computer Communications
- Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
- IEICE Transactions on Communications
- Journal of High Speed Networks
-
- Magazines
- Communications Week/Internet Week
- Network World
- Data Communications
- Open Systems Today
- Lightwave (the leading-edge magazine for the fiber-optics industry)
-
- Industry News Letters
- ATM User, Published by Jefferies Research, contact info@atm-user.com
- The ATM Report, Published by Broadband Publishing Corporation. They
- can be contacted via email at 74551.1064@compuserve.com or by phone at
- 301-816-7858.
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- SUBJECT C3)
-
- ATM information on the Internet
-
- A) Here's a list of sites that that seem to cater to the
- ATM/broadband/real-time continuous-media crowd:
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu Research, ATM Hardware, Jon Turner papers
- ftp.tele.fi Standards drafts (see below)
- cell-relay.indiana.edu cell-relay archives, etc. (see below)
- info.bellcore.com Standards drafts, etc (see below)
- ftp.com21.com ip over atm work and related ATM Forum
- contributions can be found in ftp/pub/ip-atm
-
- B) Best of all (thanks to the Information Janitorial Staff :-) is the
- archive site for this list: the cell-relay retreat! This is a fairly
- specialized WEB site in that you'll find only information on cell-relay or
- broadband technologies (ATM/DQDB/SONET, etc.) including research papers,
- standards, product information, mailing list archives, and events such as
- conferences, workshops, etc. If this is what you're looking for, you're in
- the right place!
- If you have ftp access, ftp to cell-relay.indiana.edu as user anonymous and
- look in /pub/cell-relay for:
-
- archive Archives for the cell-relay newsgroup
- bib cell-relay bibliography
- conferences Upcoming conferences and call for papers related to
- cell-relay
- docs cell-relay research papers and standards
- vendors Vendor promotional materials
- publications Popular Books, Publications, Sources
- FAQ Containing this FAQ and other related FAQs of interest.
-
- C) Additionally, there are some draft standards, RFCs, technical papers,
- etc. on ATM available at ftp.tele.fi in the directory called /atm The
- collection includes draft AAL5 CCITT standards. This is a general good
- place to look.
-
- D) Similarly, at thumper.bellcore.com in the /pub/smq/ directory has some
- circa 1993 related ITU docs.
-
- E) Most ATM equipment vendors have WEB pages where they provide access to
- internally generated white papers on ATM and their own equipment. One of
- these is FORE at http://www.fore.com/atm-edu/
-
- F) A lot of good papers, documents, and forum contributions may be found at
- Raj Jain's WEB pages at: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain
-
- G) See also question subject A6 in this FAQ for pointers to *other* ATM
- related FAQ's.
-
- H) And don't forget to check the ATM Forum at: http://www.atmforum.com
-
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- SUBJECT C4)
-
- How can I get the ATM Forum's Interface Specifications?
-
- The authoritative answer to this question can be found on the ATM Forum's
- WWW server in their Frequently Asked Questions document. These days most
- all of the ATM Forum's documents are online at their FTP site.
-
- * Web site: http://www.atmforum.com
- * anonymous ftp from ftp.atmforum.com
-
- See also question subject B5 in this FAQ.
-
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- SUBJECT C5)
-
- List of ITU-T recommendations concerning ATM.
-
- This list is provided for informational purposes only. No guarantee as to
- its completeness or correctness. Also, although they are not formally
- published, many of the following recommendations have been substantially
- updated since first published.
-
- ITU-T Recommendations Concerning ATM
-
- * E.164 Numbering plan for the ISDN era 11/91
- * G.707 Synchronous digital hierarchy bit rates 04/91
- * G.708 Network node interface for the synchronous digital hierarchy
- 06/92
- * G.709 Synchronous multiplexing structure 06/92
- * I.113 B-ISDN Vocabulary of Terms 04/91
- * I.121R Broadband Aspects Of ISDN 04/91
- * I.150 B-ISDN asynchronous transfer mode functional characteristics
- 06/92
- * I.211 B-ISDN service aspects 04/91
- * I.311 B-ISDN General Network aspects 06/92
- * I.321 B-ISDN protocol reference model and its application 04/91
- * I.327 B-ISDN functional architecture 04/91
- * I.361 B-ISDN ATM layer specification 06/92
- * I.362 B-ISDN ATM adaptation layer (AAL) functional description 04/91
- * I.363 B-ISDN ATM adaptation layer (AAL) specification (AAL1, AAL2,
- AAL3/4, AAL5)
- * I.413 B-ISDN user-network interface 04/91
- * I.432 B-ISDN user-network interface - Physical layer specification
- 06/92
- * I.610 OAM principles of the B-ISDN access 06/92
-
- Also, there are draft recommendations yet to be published (or I am just not
- sure of their status):
-
- * I.35B BISDN ATM Layer Cell Transfer Performance, 1992
- * I.364 Temp Doc 58 (XVIII) 'Support of Broadband Connectionless Data
- Service on B-ISDN' 06/92
- * I.365.1 Frame Relaying Service Specific Convergence Sublayer (FR-SSCS)
- 06/93
- * I.371 Temp Doc 64 (XVIII) 'Traffic Control and Congestion Control in
- B-ISDN' 05/92
- * I.555 Frame Relaying Bearer Service Interworking 06/93
- * Q.2931 B-ISDN User-Network Interface Layer 3 Specification for Basic
- Call/Bearer Control, 04/93
- * Q.931 ISDN user-network interface layer 3 specification for basic call
- control 05/92
- * Q.933 Digital Subscriber Signalling Systems No. 1 (DSS 1) Signalling
- Specification for Frame Mode Basic Call Control 05/92
- * G.804 Which describes the mapping of ATM cells into PDH links at
- 1.544, 2.048, 6.312, 34.368, 44.736, 97.728, 139.264 Mb/s (Jan 1993)
-
- The following Q.SAAL documents are also germane:
-
- * Q.2100 "BISDN Signalling ATM Adaptation Layer Overview Description"
- * Q.2110 "BISDN Signalling ATM Adaptation Layer - Service Specific
- Connection Oriented Protocol (SSCOP)
- * Q.2130 "BISDN Signalling ATM Adaptation Layer - Service Specific
- Coordination Function for Support of Signalling at the User-to-Network
- Interface (SSCF at UNI)"
-
- And there are simply scads of BISDN Signalling draft Recommendations:
-
- * Q.2610 DSS2 & SS7 Use of cause and location in DSS2 and B-ISUP
- * Q.2650 DSS2 & SS7 Interworking of DSS2 and B-ISUP
- * Q.2660 SS7 Interworking of B-ISUP and Narrowband ISUP
- * Q.2730 SS7 Use of B-ISUP for Supplementary Services
- * Q.2761 SS7 Functional Description of B-ISUP
- * Q.2762 SS7 General Functions of B-ISUP messages and Parameters
- * Q.2763 SS7 B-ISUP Messages and Codes
- * Q.2764 SS7 B-ISUP Basic Call Procedures
- * Q.27BB SS7 B-ISUP for Point-to-Multipoint Calls
- * Q.27CC SS7 B-ISUP for Multiconnection Calls
- * Q.27DD SS7 Network Look-Ahead
- * Q.27EE SS7 B-ISUP Connection Modification
- * Q.27FF SS7 B-ISUP for Additional Traffic Types
- * Q.27GG SS7 B-ISUP Negotiation During Call Setup
- * Q.2931 DSS2 access signalling for BISDN
- * Q.2932 DSS2 generic functional protocol for supplementary svces
- * Q.2933 DSS2 signalling for interworking with frame relay
- * Q.293x DSS2 signalling overview document
- * Q.2951 DSS2 number identification supplementary svces
- * Q.2957 DSS2 additional information transfer supp svces
- * Q.2961 DSS2 traffic parameter negotiation capability
- * Q.2962 DSS2 bandwidth negotiation capability
- * Q.2963 DSS2 bandwidth modification capability
- * Q.2964 DSS2 Look Ahead feature
- * Q.2971 DSS2 point to multipoint control
- * Q.298x DSS2 multiconnection control
- * Q.29xx DSS2 multilevel priority capability
-
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- SUBJECT C6)
-
- Internet drafts from IETF working groups.
-
- Early versions of the FAQ attempted to list current IETF drafts which are
- related to ATM. However the Internet Drafts change like sand running
- through your fingers. I recommend using the IETF URL listed below to surf
- the ID's yourself. Alternatively you can login via anonomyous FTP and
- search for key IETF working groups. Try *ROLC*, or *ATM*, or *ATOM*, or
- *IPATM*, or *ION*, etc.
-
- Internet Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months.
- Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents
- at any time. It is not appropriate to use Internet Drafts as reference
- material or to cite them other than as a "working draft" or "work in
- progress". Please check the lid-abstracts.txt listing contained in the
- internet-drafts shadow directories on nic.ddn.mil, nic.nordu.net,
- ds.internic.net, or munnari.oz.au to learn the current status of any
- Internet Draft.
-
- Useful URL:
-
- http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg0intdoc.html
-
- Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Internet-Drafts directories
- are located (as officially designated by the IETF folks) at:
-
- * Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.2)
- * Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17)
- * Europe Address: ftp.nis.garr.it (192.12.192.10)
- * Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21)
- * US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10)
- * US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32)
-
- Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to:
- mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body specify the filename requested. For
- example type: FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atmommib-atm-07.txt
-
- For questions on how to obtain Internet Drafts, please mail to
- Internet-Drafts@cnri.reston.va.us
-
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- SUBJECT C7)
-
- ATM Tutorials.
-
- The following ATM tutorials are available via anonymous FTP.
-
- Running IP over ATM
- Machine: ftp.magic.net
- Path: /pub
- File: ip-atm.ps (PostScript)
- ip-atm.ps.Z (Compressed PostScript)
- The focus of this paper is running IP over ATM, but there is an
- extensive tutorial on ATM, followed by discussion IP over ATM
- networks.
-
- Anthony Alles' ATM Paper
- Machine: cell-relay.indiana.edu
- Path: /pub/cell-relay/docs/current
- File: ATM-Internetworking.*
- Where * equals one of the following file extensions:
- Compressed Postscript (.ps.Z) download using binary mode
- Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) download using binary mode
- Postscript (.ps) download using ascii mode
-
- Introduction to ATM (1993)
- Machine: ftp.tele.fi
- Path: atm/articles
- File: atm-intro.txt
- This paper is also a good starting point.
-
- "The Asynchronous Transfer Mode: A Tutorial" by Jean-Yves Le Boudec
- Computer Networks and ISDN, Vol 24, No 4, May 1992, pp 279-309
-
- Access the ATM Forum on the World Wide Web at http://www.atmforum.com and
- then browse through the online info. The tutorial has some basic intro to
- ATM.
-
- Additionally there are reasonable tutorials available from several
- commercial communications companies. Specifically:
-
- 1. "Asynchronous Transfer Mode: Bandwidth for the Future", Jim Lane,
- Telco Systems, 1992. To order a free copy simply call 1-800-447-2537
- 2. "Broadband Testing Technologies", (a HP Seminar Handbook), Hewlett-
- Packard Company, February 1993, Document number 5091-6902E Call your
- local HP sales office and or contact the HP IDACOM Test division. The
- inside cover claims this document costs $10.
- 3. "Understanding ATM Networks", Bay Networks (SynOptics), part number
- 893-687-A. You can order it from SynOptics Press or a Bay Networks
- sales office.
-
- Additionally, Ameritech and the other Bell companies publish a pamphlet
- called "ATM Today" anad another called "SMDS Today". You can call (800)
- TEAM-DATA for copies.
-
- ATM Forum Ambassador Program
- ATM Forum has an ambassador program whereby they provide informative
- speakers to the networking community regarding various aspects of ATM.
- Ambassadors represent the ATM Forum and present ATM technology in a
- non vendor specific manner. Ambassadors can discuss firsthand current
- activities in the ATM Forum. Topics include:
-
- o Why ATM
- o Introduction to ATM
- o Intermediate ATM
- o ATM in the public WAN
- o Signalling 3.0
- o Traffic Management 3.0
- o B-ICI
- o Network Management
- o LAN Emulation
-
- Contact the ATM Forum for more information.
-
- Last but not least, Derek Hill has gathered together some on-line
- references in the teaching archive of his WWW server. It's designed for his
- students, not for ATM experts!
-
- http://www-ipg.umds.ac.uk/ (main server)
- http://www-ipg.umds.ac.uk/~dlgh/teaching/atmref.html (ATM references)
-
- Let him know (D.Hill@umds.ac.uk) if you have any comments or suggestions.
-
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- SUBJECT C8)
-
- Contact information for ANSI T1S1 specifications.
-
- These documents can be obtained directly from the Secretariat for the ANSI
- T1 Telecommunications committee.
-
- Exchange Carriers Standard Association
- 1200 G. Street N.W. Suite 500
- Washington, D.C. 20005
-
- All orders and requests for quotations on prices must be in writing. Their
- FAX number is: (202) 393-5453
-
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- SUBJECT C9)
-
- Internet RFCs.
-
- The following RFCs are available related to cell-relay technology.
-
- * RFC 1483: Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5
- * RFC 1577: Classical IP and ARP over ATM
- * RFC 1619: PPP over SONET/SDH
- * RFC 1626: Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5
- * RFC 1680: IPng Support for ATM Services
- * RFC 1695: Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management
- * RFC 1735: NBMA Address Resolution Protocol (NARP)
- * RFC 1754: IP over ATM Working Group's Recommendations for the ATM
- Forum's Multiprotocol BOF Ver 1
- * RFC 1755: ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM
- * RFC 1821: Integration of Real-time Services in an IP-ATM Network
- Architecture
- * RFC 1926: An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM
- * RFC 1932: IP over ATM: A Framework Document
- * RFC 1946: Native ATM Support for ST2+
- * RFC 1954: Ipsilon approach for IP over ATM
- * RFC 2022: Support for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks
- * RFC 2098: Toshiba's Cell Stream Router
- * RFC 2105: Cisco's Tag Switching
- * RFC 2121: Issues affecting MARS cluster size
- * RFC 2129: More Toshiba specifications
- * RFC 2170: Application Requested IP over ATM
- * RFC 2191: VENUS - Very Extensive non-unicast Service
-
- Details on obtaining RFCs via FTP or EMAIL may be obtained by sending an
- EMAIL message to rfc-info@ISI.EDU with the message body help:
- ways_to_get_rfcs. For example:
-
- To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU
- Subject: getting rfcs
-
- help: ways_to_get_rfcs
-
- On the WEB try the following: http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg0intdoc.html
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- SUBJECT C10)
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- ATM and Related Acronyms.
-
- The cell-relay archives contain an ever growing list of acronyms which tend
- to appear in postings, RFCs, standards and other text related to the
- cell-relay topic area. This list is at
- http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/FAQ/ATM-Acronyms.html
-
- Here are a few five dollar words which sometime arise in this topic area.
-
- * Plesiochronous: Signals which are arbitrarily close in frequency to
- some defined precision. They are not sourced from the same clock and
- so, over the long term, will be skewed from each other. Their relative
- closeness of allows a switch to cross connect, switch, or in some way
- processs them. That same inaccuracy of timing will force a switch,
- over time, to repeat or delete frames (called frame slips) in order to
- handle buffer underflow or overflow.
- * Synchronous: Signals that are sourced from the same timing reference.
- These have the same frequency. (Contrast with Plesiochronous signals.)
- Typically for synchronous data interfaces there will be a separate
- clock signal and the data need not be clocked at a uniform rate.
- * Asynchronous: Signals that are sourced from independent clocks. These
- signals generally have no relation to each other and so have different
- frequencies and phase relationships. (Contrast with Plesiochronous
- signals.)
- * Isochronous: Signals which are dependant on some uniform timing or
- carry their own timing information embedded as part of the signal. So
- isochronous data signals can be thought of as being "self-clocked".
- That is there is no spatially separate clock signal. A receiver would
- extract the uniform bit-rate clock from the actual data stream. Thus
- the two ends of a connection would run on the same clock, extracting
- data at a fixed (smooth) rate. (Contrast with Synchronous signals.)
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- SUBJECT C11)
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- Literature and papers on the self-similar (fractal) property of traffic?
-
- The volume of literature on self-similar data traffic is huge. Here are
- some of the best and each of these has lots of other references. [1] is one
- of the most important networking papers of the decade and launched this new
- examination of data traffic performance. [2], from the same authors, is an
- informal discussion of the importance of self-similar traffic modeling. [3]
- provides a solid analysis of TCP-based self-similar traffic and includes a
- number of useful appendices on underlying mathematical concepts of general
- interest in self-similar traffic modeling. [4] focuses on the impact of
- self-similarity on queuing performance and provides a good overview of the
- issues and modeling techniques involved.
-
- [1] Leland, W.; Taqqu, M.; Willinger, W.; and Wilson, D. "On the
- Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic (Extended Version)." IEEE/ACM
- Transactions on Networking, February 1994.
-
- [2] Willinger, W.; Wilson, D.; Wilson, D.; and Taqqu, M. "Self-Similar
- Traffic Modeling for High-Speed Networks." ConneXions, November 1994.
-
- [3] Paxson, V., and Floyd, S. "Wide Area Traffic: The Failure of Poisson
- Modeling." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, June 1995.
-
- [4] Erramilli, A.; Narayan, O.; and Willinger, W. "Experimental Queueing
- Analysis with Long-Range Dependent Packet Traffic." IEEE/ACM Transactions
- on Networking, April 1996.
-
- The first paper listed above [1] was originally published in sigcomm93 as a
- shorter paper. This and the longer version was the work which started the
- whole self-similar perspective. The original sigcomm93 version can be found
- online at: ftp://ftp.bellcore.com/pub/world/wel/sigcomm93.ps.Z
-
- The updated longer version [1] appeared in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking
- (and won IEEE's highest award for a research paper). It is on-line as
- ftp://ftp.bellcore.com/pub/wel/world.tome.ps.Z
-
- The author asks that you read the README:
-
- ftp://ftp.bellcore.com/pub/world/wel/README
-
- This is also available in Adobe Acrobat for Mac/Windows folks (also Sun
- Solaris and 4.1.3). It is be available as a link on:
-
- http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/docs/TechReports.html
-
- At SIGCOMM '94, Mark Garrett and others showed that MPEG is self-similar
- ftp://ftp.bellcore.com/pub/dvw/sigcomm94mwg.ps
-
- There have been several more papers (generally in ACM SIGCOMM proceedings)
- show WAN traffic is self-similar and beginning to explore reasons why
- traffic might be self-similar.
-
- NOTE: If you have problems accessing any FTP sites through your WEB
- browser, try using a normal FTP application and log on with a user name of
- "anonomous", and supply your email address as a password.
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- How can I get copies of ITU-T documents?
-
- You can buy these on paper from the ITU:
-
- ITU
- Place des Nations
- CH-1211 Geneva 20
- Switzerland.
-
- The fax number of the sales office is +41 22 730 5194. They also have an
- online publications services which is available by subscription. See their
- FAQ at http://www.itu.int/publications for more information. Through their
- service you can get documents at http://www.itu.ch/itudoc/itu-t/rec/q.html.
- If you are not a subscriber you can send mail to sales@itu.ch to order a
- paper copy.
-
- It is also possible to get access to ITU documents available for
- downloading on the Web without a subscription. You can pay for a single
- document with a credit card. Refer to http://www.itu.int/publications for
- more details.
-
- They are also available commercially from at least 3 sources in the US:
-
- * Information Gatekeepers in Boston, MA (1-800-323-1088)
- * Phillips Publishing (1-800-OMNICOM)
- * Global Engineering Documents (1-800-854-7179)
-
- Phillips usually has documents in stock & has fast delivery.
-
- General online access is limited. Some postings suggested telnet to:
- ties.itu.ch / 156.106.4.75 or
- chi.itu.ch / 156.106.4.16
-
- Some postings suggested the IMTC web site at http://www.imtc.org/. They
- have most of the relevant H series and T series drafts available online,
- plus some useful overview/tutorial stuff.
-
- Others suggest using gopher because that is what they are using. For gopher
- you'll need to use info.itu.ch if you want to use a local gopher client.
- Click on the link in the last sentence to connect to info.itu.ch. ties and
- chi will refuse connections to port 70.
-
- Some can be accessed on http://www.itu.ch/ (ITU World Wide Web site). You
- can also get copies of ITU documents using their auto-answering mailbox.
- Send mail to itudoc@itu.ch with:
-
- GET ITU-4313
-
- in the message body to get information how to get the documents, including
- I.363, that you want.
-
- Alternatively, send e-mail to itudoc@itu.ch with the single line HELP in
- the body of the message. That will get you information on the ITU's
- automatic mail server. Essentially you send a message to the above address
- with:
-
- GET ITU-nnnn in the body, where nnnn is the document identifier number that
- you get by asking for ITU-1100, which is the index to the ITU I. series,
- including I.363.
-
- ITU-4313 also has directions how to use gopher:
- Name=3DInternational Telecommunications Union (ITU)
- Host=3Dinfo.itu.ch
- Port=3D70
-
- For a while there were many ITU documents available electronically. However
- sometime in 1995 the ITU has taken these off line and they are no longer
- readily available. If you have access to a cdrom (and an pc/mac) there is a
- "Standard's" cdrom from Infomagic available for $30.00. This provides all
- of the ITU documents which had been online as well as IETF documents. The
- ITU documents include those published since 1988 (when they became
- available electronically) through this summer. A few are missing (i.e.
- X.741). Almost all of these recomendations are in postscript format, so you
- will also need a viewer (ghostscript and ghost view are on the disks).
-
- InfoMagic may be contacted at:
-
- Tel: +1-520-526-9565
- Fax: +1-520-526-9573
- E-mail: info@infomagic.com
- Web: www@infomagic.com
-
- InfoMagic
- 11950 N. Highway 89
- Flagstaff, Ax 86004
-
- Finally, don't forget to try the various Internet hosts on which ITU drafts
- and other goodies may be found. A good place to start is ftp.tele.fi or
- info.bellcore.com, check subject C3 of this FAQ for additional information.
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