Multiservice Loss Models for Broadband Telecommunication Networks (Telecommunication Networks and Computer Systems) [Hardcover]

Keith W. Ross (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 3540199187 | ISBN-13: 978-3540199182 | Publication Date: February 25, 1997 | Edition: 1

Loss networks ensure that sufficient resources are available when a call arrives. However, traditional loss network models for telephone networks cannot cope with today's heterogeneous demands, the central attribute of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. This requires multiservice loss models.
This publication presents mathematical tools for the analysis, optimization and design of multiservice loss networks. These tools are relevant to modern broadband networks, including ATM networks. Addressed are networks with both fixed and alternative routing, and with discrete and continuous bandwidth requirements. Multiservice interconnection networks for switches and contiguous slot assignment for synchronous transfer mode are also presented.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 343 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (February 25, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540199187
• ISBN-13: 978-3540199182
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,007,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Keith Ross is Leonard J. Shustek Chair Professor in Computer Science Polytechnic Institute of NYU. He is also the Head of the Departement of Computer Science and Engineering. Before joining NYU-Poly, he was a professor at University of Pennsylvania (13 years) and Eurecom Institute (5 years) in France. at Pin January 2003. He received a B.S.E.E from Tufts University, a M.S.E.E. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering from The University of Michigan.

Professor Ross has worked in privacy, social networks, peer-to-peer networking, Internet measurement, video streaming, multi-service loss networks, content distribution networks, network security, queuing theory, and Markov decision processes. He is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of numerious prestigious best-paper awards.

He is co-author (with James F. Kurose) of the popular textbook, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, published by Addison-Wesley (first edition in 2000, sixth edition 2012). It is the most popular textbook on computer networking, both nationally and internationally, and has been translated into fourteen languages. Professor Ross is also the author of the research monograph, Multiservice Loss Models for Broadband Communication Networks, published by Springer in 1995.

From July 1999 to July 2001, he took a leave of absence from academics to found and lead Wimba, an Internet technology start-up. Wimba developed multimedia web technologies for online learning. Wimba was acquired by Blackboard in 2010.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Monography, October 22, 1999

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This monography touches upon several aspects of loss networks: computation of product form probabilities, Erlang and Montecarlo approximation to loss probability, routing and admission decision. It very readable and summarizes the work done in the past 20 year, especially by Frank Kelly. The target application is ATM networks. One possible drawback of the approach used here is that the effective bandwidth of a session is assumed known a priori. In practice this approach has not been very effective, and alternative decision rules (e.g. measurement-based effective bandwidth) have been explored. Practical relevance of the approach aside, this is an excellent book.