The influence of ATM on operating systems.

The features of ATM offered many attractions to the application community, such as fine-grained multiplexing and high-throughput links. These created considerable challenges for the O.S. designer, since a small protocol data unit size (the 48 byte "cell") and link bandwidths within a (bina...

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Published in:	Computer communication review. 32, 5 (2002).
Main Author:	Smith, Jonathan M.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Computer systems organization. Computer communication networks. Network architecture and design. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Internetworking. Standards (e.g., TCP/IP). Software. Operating systems. Communications management. Network communication. Computing milieux. History of computing. Systems. Algorithms. Documentation. Theory.