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header <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation which limits <strong>the</strong> maximum possible e ciency of data transmission,<br />

especially on LANs. Fur<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> loss of one cell results <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> loss of an entire packet<br />

(which may consist of several cells). But <strong>the</strong> cell switch<strong>in</strong>g (as opposed to expensive<br />

packet rout<strong>in</strong>g) and sophisticated tra c management technology <strong>in</strong> ATM networks<br />

allows <strong>the</strong> real e ciency to be close to <strong>the</strong> maximum possible (unlike <strong>the</strong> E<strong>the</strong>rnet<br />

technology where <strong>the</strong> e ciency drops o rapidly as load <strong>in</strong>creases). This feature<br />

makes ATM attractive <strong>for</strong> data communications as well.<br />

The development of<strong>the</strong>ATM technology has also resulted <strong>in</strong> several elegant total<br />

or compromise solutions to facilitate high-speed <strong>in</strong>tegrated services network<strong>in</strong>g. These<br />

<strong>in</strong>clude: <strong>the</strong> use of shared switches (as opposed to us<strong>in</strong>g shared media), connection-<br />

oriented technology (to deliver guarantees, and simpli ed management andcontrol),<br />

<strong>the</strong> use of short switch-assigned labels <strong>in</strong> cell headers <strong>in</strong>stead of addresses (<strong>for</strong> scalabil-<br />

ity), <strong>the</strong> development of a true QoS-based rout<strong>in</strong>g (PNNI) protocol, and <strong>in</strong>troduction<br />

of features such as LAN Emulation (LANE) and Multiprotocol over ATM (MPOA)<br />

which has triggered o work <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> eld of <strong>in</strong>ternetwork<strong>in</strong>g (runn<strong>in</strong>g technology \X"<br />

over technology \Y") [22, 4].<br />

In this dissertation, we focus on <strong>the</strong> problem of support<strong>in</strong>g data applications e -<br />

ciently with<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>tegrated services framework. Note that, <strong>in</strong> addition to provid<strong>in</strong>g<br />

a viable solution <strong>for</strong> any one of voice, video, or data transmission <strong>in</strong> isolation, ATM<br />

allows all <strong>the</strong>se applications to be supported e ciently <strong>in</strong> a s<strong>in</strong>gle network. This is a<br />

key feature di erentiator when compared with current datanetwork technologies like<br />

E<strong>the</strong>rnet. This feature, when complemented with tra c management capabilities al-<br />

lows <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>tegrated network to be fully utilized while deliver<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> quality of service<br />

requested by applications.<br />

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