A Message-Based Approach to Discrete-Event Simulation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Deadlock-Free Message Routing in Multiprocessor Interconnection Networks
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Performance Evaluation - Special issue: performance modeling tools
The ERICA switch algorithm for ABR traffic management in ATM networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Some Deadlock Properties of Computer Systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Four standard control theory approaches for the implementation of RRM ABR services
Proceedings of the IFIP TC6 WG6.3/WG6.4 Fourth International Workshop on ATM Networks, Performance Modelling and Analysis, Volume 3
Deadlock-free routing in an optical interconnect for high-speed wormhole routing networks
ICPADS '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
The drop from front strategy in TCP and in TCP over ATM
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 3
A simulation study of TCP performance in ATM networks with ABR and UBR services
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 3
Congestion control in asynchronous, high-speed wormhole routing networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Autonet: a high-speed, self-configuring local area network using point-to-point links
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Dynamics of TCP traffic over ATM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Routing in multihop packet switching networks: Gb/s challenge
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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An interesting lightweight switching technique for local area and campus environments is wormhole routing, in which the head of a packet, upon arriving at an intermediate switch, is immediately forwarded to the next switch on the path. The current proposals and products of wormhole routing networks provide a connectionless and lossless transport of variable-size data units, aiming at minimal latencies, but without any quality-of-service guarantee. Wormhole networks therefore push at an extreme the networking paradigm of the Internet, adopting technical solutions for high-speed networking that are opposite to those taken in ATM. The aim of this paper is to perform a simulation-based comparison between the wormhole routing and ATM transport techniques in high-speed networking scenarios. The behavior of the two information transport techniques is studied in mesh topologies where a few interfering TCP connections in overload interact with a uniform background traffic. Our results show that a larger hardware and software complexity is required to ATM switches with respect to wormhole routing switches in order to provide a comparable throughput to TCP connections. By contrast, ATM is more capable to handle severe congestion situations and to provide better fairness.