Rationale, Directions, and Issues Surrounding High Speed Networks

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 94-120

  Chlamtac, Imrich ^a   Franta, William R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Network Systems Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSMISSION--PACKET SWITCHING; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; STANDARDS;

DISTRIBUTED QUEUEING; FIBER DISTRIBUTED DATA INTERFACE; HIGH SPEED NETWORKS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0025263376     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.52201     Document Type: Article

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