CS 6386 -- High Speed Switching Systems

Reading List

ATM Switching

• J. Turner, An Optimal Nonblocking Multicast Virtual Circuit Switch,
  Proceedings of IEEE Infocom '94, pp. 298 - 305.
• N. McKeown, M. Izzard, A. Mekkittikul, B. Ellersick and M. Horowitz, The Tiny Tera: A Packet Switch Core
  Hot Interconnects V, Stanford University, August 1996.

Active Networking

• Tennenhouse, Smith, Sincoskie, Wetherall and Minden, A Survey of Active Network Research IEEE Communications Magazine, 1997.
• Wetherall, Guttag and Tennenhouse, ANTS: A toolkit for building and dynamically deploying network protocols, To appear in Openarch'98.
• Bhattacharjee, Calvert and Zegura, Self-Organizing Wide-Area Network Caching, To appear in Infocom'98.

Fast IP Forwarding

• Waldvogel, Varghese, Turner and Plattner, Scalable High Speed IP Routing Lookups, Sigcomm'97.
• Degermark, Brodnik, Carlsson and Pink, Small Forwarding Tables for Fast Routing Lookups, Sigcomm'97.

IP Switching

• C. Partridge et al., A Gigabit Per Second IP Router
  To be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Networking.
• P. Newman, IP Switching and Gigabit Routers
  To appear in IEEE Communications Magazine, January 1997.
• Ipsilon Networks, IP Switching: The Intelligence of Routing, the Performance of Switching,
  White paper, February 1996.
• RFC1953, Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol
  Request for Comments.
• G. Parulkar, J. Turner and D. Schmidt, A Strategy for Integrating IP with ATM
  Proceedings of Sigcomm '95, pp. 49 - 59.

Tag Switching

• Y. Rekhter, B. Davie and D. Katz, Tag Switching Architecture Overview,
  Internet Draft, September 1996.
• P. Doolan, B. Davie, D. Katz, Y. Reckter and E. Rosen, Tag Distribution Protocol,
  Internet Draft, September 1996.
• F. Baker and Y. Rekhter, Use of Flow Label for Tag Switching
  Internet Draft, October 1996.
• B. Davie, P. Doolan, J. Lawrence and K. McCloghrie,
  Use of Tag Switching with ATM (Version 00), Internet Draft, October 1996.
  Use of Tag Switching with ATM (Version 01), Internet Draft, January 1997.
• Y. Rekhter, B. Davie, D. Katz, E. Rosen, G. Swallow and D. Farinacci, Tag Switching Architecture - Overview Internet Draft, January 1997.

Service Classes

• R. Jain, Congestion Control and Traffic Management in ATM Networks: Recent Advances and a Survey
  Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, February 1993.
• C. Lefelhocz, B. Lyles, S. Shenker and L. Zhang, Congestion control for best-effort Service: Why we need a new paradigm
  IEEE Network Magazine, Jan/Feb 1996.
• F. Bonomi and K. Fendick, "The Rate-Based Flow Control Framework for the Available Bit Rate ATM Service", (not available on the web --- see me for a copy)
  IEEE Network Magazine, March/April 1995.
• M. Grossglauser, S. Keshav and D. Tse, RCBR: A Simple and Efficient Service for Multiple Time-Scale Traffic
  Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm '95.

Signaling

• L. Zhang, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Shenker and D. Zappala RSVP: A New Resource ReSerVation Protocol
  IEEE Network, September 1993.
• A. Demirtjis, S. Berson, B. Edwards, M. Maher, B. Braden and A Mankin RSVP and ATM Signalling
  ATM Forum Contributions, 96-0258.
• R. Braden, L. Zhang, S. Berson, S. Herzog and S. Jamin, Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification
  Internet Draft, May 1996.
• RSVP Home Page
• README for available ATM Forum contributions
  Includes PNNI and RSVP documents.

Host/Network Interfaces

• Z. Dittia, J. Cox and G.Parulkar, "Design of the APIC: A High Performance ATM Host-Network Interface Chip,
  Proceedings of IEEE Infocom '95, pp. 179-187.