Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (January 10 , 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Florida, 2002. / Title from title page of source document. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.

by Cathy Wai-chun Chan. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Texas, May, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-131). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

published_or_final_version / Electrical and Electronic Engineering / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Wong, Ho Yin Starsky. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-85). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Motivation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Problems of IP multicast --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- End-system multicast --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4 --- The Challenge of ESM --- p.3 / Chapter 1.5 --- Document Roadmap --- p.4 / Chapter 2 --- System Architecture --- p.5 / Chapter 3 --- ESM Protocol --- p.8 / Chapter 3.1 --- ESM: Tree Formation Protocol --- p.8 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Example of Tree Formation Protocol --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- "The proof of ""Tree Formation Protocol always main- tains a tree topology""" --- p.15 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- "The proof of ""Tree Formation Protocol guarantees that there is no partition in the ESM-tree""" --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- State Transition Diagram for Tree Formation Protocol --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2 --- ESM: Data Transfer --- p.28 / Chapter 3.3 --- ESM: Tree Optimization Protocol CONTENTS --- p.30 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Example of Tree Optimization Protocol --- p.37 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- "The proof of ""Distributed Locking Protocol avoids loop formation and tree partition""" --- p.38 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- State Transition Diagram for Tree Optimization Protocol --- p.39 / Chapter 3.4 --- ESM: Node Leaving Protocol --- p.46 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Example of ESM: Node Leaving Protocol --- p.51 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- State Transition Diagram for Node Leaving Protocol --- p.53 / Chapter 4 --- Performance Evaluation --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1 --- Experiment 1 - Comparisons between IP Unicast and ESM --- p.61 / Chapter 4.2 --- Experiment 2 - Comparisons between different ESM topologies --- p.64 / Chapter 4.3 --- Experiment 3 - Comparison between different thresholds for tree optimization operation --- p.67 / Chapter 4.4 --- Experiment 4 - NS2 Simulation --- p.69 / Chapter 5 --- Related Work --- p.74 / Chapter 6 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.78 / Chapter 6.1 --- Contributions --- p.78 / Chapter 6.2 --- Future Work --- p.79 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Large-scale Experiments --- p.79 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Evaluation for non-reliable data transfer --- p.79 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Investigation of tree-optimization activation threshold --- p.80

by Lin Hon Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-[63]). / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Organization of Thesis --- p.3 / Chapter 2 --- Principles of Multicast Cross-Path Switches --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Unicast Cross-Path switch --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Routing properties in Clos networks --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Quasi-static routing procedures --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Capacity and Route Assignment --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Multicast Cross-Path Switch --- p.8 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Scheme 1 - Cell replication performed at both input and output stages --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Scheme 2 - Cell replication performed only at the input stage --- p.10 / Chapter 3 --- Architectures --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2 --- Input Module Design (Scheme 1) --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Input Header Translator --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Input Module Controller --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Input Replication Network (Scheme 1) --- p.19 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Routing Network --- p.23 / Chapter 3.3 --- Central Modules --- p.24 / Chapter 3.4 --- Output Module Design (Scheme 1) --- p.24 / Chapter 3.5 --- Input Module Design (Scheme 2) --- p.25 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Input Header Translator (Scheme 2) --- p.26 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Input Module Controller (Scheme 2) --- p.27 / Chapter 3.5.3 --- Input Replication Network (Scheme 2) --- p.28 / Chapter 3.6 --- Output Module Design (Scheme 2) --- p.29 / Chapter 4 --- Performance Evaluations --- p.31 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2 --- Traffic characteristics --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Fanout distribution --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Middle stage traffic load and its calculation --- p.32 / Chapter 4.3 --- Throughput Performance --- p.34 / Chapter 4.4 --- Delay Performance --- p.37 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Input Stage Delay --- p.38 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Output Stage Delay --- p.39 / Chapter 4.5 --- Cell Loss Performance --- p.43 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Cell Loss due to Buffer Overflow --- p.44 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Cell Loss Due to Output Contention --- p.45 / Chapter 4.6 --- Complexities --- p.50 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusions --- p.57 / Bibliography --- p.59

by Jin Mai. / Thesis submitted in: June 1998. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-[67]). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background and Motivation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Organization of the thesis --- p.8 / Chapter 2 --- Principles of WDM Cross-Path Switch --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Principles of path scheduling --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Call setup and path rearrangement --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3 --- ABR control --- p.17 / Chapter 3 --- Star coupler and WDM path scheduling --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1 --- Star coupler and other WDM ATM switches --- p.20 / Chapter 3.2 --- Two schemes of implementation --- p.22 / Chapter 4 --- input/output modules and local routing --- p.26 / Chapter 4.1 --- Shared buffer memory switch --- p.26 / Chapter 4.2 --- local routing at input/output modules --- p.29 / Chapter 5 --- Multicasting --- p.32 / Chapter 5.1 --- Two multicasting schemes --- p.32 / Chapter 5.2 --- Call blocking --- p.36 / Chapter 6 --- Performance --- p.37 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.37 / Chapter 6.2 --- Switch complexity --- p.38 / Chapter 6.3 --- Speed up --- p.40 / Chapter 6.4 --- Two multicasting schemes --- p.41 / Chapter 7 --- Switch Model and Operation --- p.47 / Chapter 8 --- Conclusions --- p.50 / Chapter A --- Effective bandwidth and QoS guarantee --- p.52 / Chapter A.l --- ATM service categories and QoS parameters --- p.52 / Chapter A.2 --- Effective bandwidth for single source --- p.53 / Chapter A.2.1 --- Markovian on/off source approach --- p.54 / Chapter A.2.2 --- Leaky bucket regulated source --- p.55 / Chapter A.3 --- Effective bandwidth for multiplexed sources --- p.60 / Chapter A.3.1 --- Gaussian model approach --- p.60 / Bibliography --- p.62