{"title":"Performance of explicit rate flow control in ATM networks","authors":"L. Roberts","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501743","url":null,"abstract":"For the last 26 years packet networks have insured low data loss for bursty data traffic with flow control which the author introduced in the ARPANET in 1969 and as a standard in X.25 in 1975. However, from the time ATM was introduced commercially around 1992 until now, flow control has been totally missing. The credit flow control used historically in packet networks was far too expensive at ATM speeds and no alternative had been developed. Without flow control, ATM has been no more effective than a high speed circuit switch. Over the past two years the ATM Forum has studied and refined the authors proposal for explicit rate flow control. This recommendation which will be released in early 1996 will finally permit ATM to carry data traffic with high efficiency and with extremely low loss. This paper examines the performance of various possible versions of rate flow control permissible under this recommendation.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123407425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pentium Pro processor workstation/server PCI Chipset","authors":"Mike Bell, T. Holman","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501800","url":null,"abstract":"The 82450GX PCI Chipset provides a high performance memory subsystem and PCI bridge solution for workstation and server Pentium Pro processor based systems. This paper describes the architecture, performance, and feature set of the 82450GX.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115856351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Katz, E. Brewer, E. Amir, H. Balakrishnan, A. Fox, S. Gribble, T. Hodes, D. Jiang, G. Nguyen, V. Padmanabhan, M. Stemm
{"title":"The Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN)","authors":"R. Katz, E. Brewer, E. Amir, H. Balakrishnan, A. Fox, S. Gribble, T. Hodes, D. Jiang, G. Nguyen, V. Padmanabhan, M. Stemm","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501742","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless data services have thus far been more promising than successful. We believe that future mobile information systems must be built upon heterogeneous wireless overlay networks, extending traditional wired and internetworked processing \"islands\" to mobile hosts over coverage areas ranging from in-room, in-building, campus, metropolitan, and wide-areas. In this paper, we describe a new wireless data networking architecture that integrates diverse wireless technologies into a seamless internetwork. It is being implemented in the BARWAN testbed in the San Francisco Bay Area.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131099752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"64-bit and multimedia extensions in the PA-RISC 2.0 architecture","authors":"R. Lee, Jerome C. Huck","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501762","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the architectural extensions to the PA-RISC 1.1 architecture to enable 64-bit processing of integers and pointers. It also describes MAX, the Multi-media Acceleration eXtensions which speed up the processing of multimedia and other applications with parallelism at the intra instruction, or subword, level. Other additions to the PA-RISC 2.0 architecture include performance enhancements with respect to memory hierarchy management, branch penalty reduction, and floating-point performance.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133210604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MPEG-2 over ATM: system design issues","authors":"S. Varma","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501744","url":null,"abstract":"The ISO/IEC Standard Committee has adopted a packet format known as the transport stream (TS) for sending MPEG-2 encoded data over communication networks. During the past year the ATM Forum established a sub-working group to examine issues connected with the transmission of MPEG-2 TS packets over ATM networks. The objective of this paper is to summarize the present state of this work and also to point out the design issues that had to be resolved. In particular we describe the issues of MPEG-2 system clock recovery in the presence of network jitter and encapsulation of TS packets in AAL5 PDUs.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133884857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redundant arrays of independent libraries (RAIL): a tertiary storage system","authors":"D. Ford, R. Morris, A. Bell","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501783","url":null,"abstract":"Increased computer networking has sparked a resurgence of the \"on-line\" revolution of the 1970's, making ever larger amounts of data available on a world wide basis and placing greater demands on the performance and availability of tertiary storage systems. In this paper, we argue for a new approach to tertiary storage system architecture that is obtained by coupling multiple small and inexpensive \"building block\" libraries (or jukeboxes) together to create larger tertiary storage systems. We call the resulting system a RAIL (Redundant Arrays of Independent Libraries) and show that it has performance and availability characteristics superior to conventional tertiary storage systems, for almost the same dollar/megabyte cost.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125283212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synchronous DRAM evolutionary changes bring cost/performance advantages in memory systems","authors":"A. Cosoroaba","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501796","url":null,"abstract":"SDRAMs are DRAM type products that can offer an evolutionary change with performance advantages for memory systems previously unachievable with traditional DRAMs. These advantages are based on a synchronous I/O interface and improved internal architecture that enables faster data throughput rates. Performance estimations done to compare DRAMs with SDRAMs for various miss ratios and CPU clock/bus clock ratios show significant system performance improvement. With their evolutionary transition SDRAMs are minimizing the risks of system designers. This is an important factor in today's short product cycle design environment. The significant system performance improvements obtained by these devices are at little or no extra cost. SDRAMs can also keep up with increasing bus speeds narrowing the performance gap between main memory and CPUs. The synchronous I/O, multiple internal banks and high burst modes are bringing SDRAMs closer than ever to CPU performance.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121179252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data storage IC technology","authors":"J. Kovacs, Ronald Kroesen","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501802","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the evolution and present trends of disk drive read channel implementations. This segment of the data storage IC industry is under tremendous performance and price pressure to meet the demands of the ever increasing computational and storage capacity requirements of now widely available computer platforms. These requirements have fueled the appearance of more and more sophisticated read channel processors. Classical peak detector channels have ruled disk drives for 30 years before giving way to discrete time read channel processors. A plethora of new channel architectures and suppliers have entered the market. Understanding the merits and the performance potentials of the various approaches is important for everybody who is involved in this industry.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127038434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Object-oriented workflow technology in InConcert","authors":"S. Sarin","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501809","url":null,"abstract":"InConcert is an object-oriented client-server workflow management system. An overview is provided of the functionality of InConcert and how it is implemented on an underlying relational database management system. The process of developing a workflow solution is reviewed, with emphasis on extensibility, ease of integration, flexibility and adaptability, and reuse.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134065577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HP BIDS - broadband interactive data solution","authors":"Ilja Bedner, Alex Ranous","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501746","url":null,"abstract":"The Hewlett-Packard broadband interactive data solution (BIDS) is an integrated package that provides a total solution which enables telecom, cable or service providers the ability to provide interactive data services and Internet services to their end customers. BIDS is comprised of applications, a server complex, network access technology, and operational support.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132932508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}