Broadband Networks and Services: Architecture and Control: Broadband networks to support a diverse combination of media and services present two interrelated challenges to the designers: How to devise the proper network architectures to efficiently deliver information, and how to realize the control and software infrastructure for end-to-end support of broadband applications

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 24-32

  Vecchi, Mario P ^a  

^a Sports Illustrated Building   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTIONS; BROADBAND NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; BROADBAND NETWORK CONTROL; CLIENT-SERVER DISTRIBUTED OBJECT COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING; FORMAT CONVERSION; GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE; INTERACTIVE DIGITAL BROADBAND; INTEROPERABILITY;

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; TELECOMMUNICATION CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; USER INTERFACES; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 0029350946     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.400596     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. The author has drawn from the original presentations made at the “Architecture and Control” session of the IEEE Broadband '95 Workshop, Tucson, Arizona (Jan. 8–11, 1995) by: Gita Gopal (Bellcore), Andy Laursen (Oracle Systems), Ed Szurkowski (AT&T Bell Labs), Jay Vaughan (Time Warner Cable), Sheldon Borkin (Silicon Graphics Inc.), and John Limb (Georgia Tech).
2. G. Coan et al., “The Touring Machine System (Ver. 3): An Open Distributed Platform for Information Networking Applications,” Proc. Telecommun. Information Networking Architecture Conf. (TINA'93), Turin, Italy, Sept. 1993
3. P. Mouchtaris et al., “An Object-Oriented Interface for a Distributed Connection Manager,” Proc. 1994 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Commun. (ICC '94), New Orleans, Louisiana, May 1994, pp. 273–277.
4. See for instance, “Realizing the Information Future, the Internet and beyond,” by Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, NRENAISSANCE Committee, (National Academy Press, Washington DC, 1994).
5. N. Natarajan and G. Slawsky, “A Framework Architecture for Information Networks,” IEEE Commun. Magazine, vol. 30, no. 4, April 1992, pp. 102–109.
6. M. Arango et al., “The Touring Machine System,” Commun. of the ACM, vol. 40, no. 1, Jan. 1993, p. 78.
7. L.D. Wiliamson, “FSN Technology,” Proc. of 1995 Conference on Emerging Technologies (SCTE '95), Society of Cable Television Engineering, Orlando 1995, pp. 27–35
8. M.P. Vecchi and M. Adams, “Traffic Management for Highly Interactive Transactional Systems,” Proc. of National Cable Television Association Conf. (CABLE '95), Dallas, Texas, May 1995.
9. “The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification,” Object Management Group Document Number 91.12.1, Revision 1.1, (QED Publishing Group, Wellesley, MA, 1992).
10. R.W. Brown and J.W. Callahan, “Software Architecture for Broadband CATV Interactive Systems,” Proc. of National Cable Television Association Conf. (CABLE '95), Dallas, May 1995.
11. See, e.g., “IEEE P 802.14 Cable-TV Functional Requirements and Evaluation Criteria” (March 3, 1995) from the IEEE Project 802.14 Working Group. Available by ftp (host: ftp.walkingdog.com; login: catv; password: ieee802).