Multicast ATM Switches：Survey and Performance Evaluation

Abstract

In the past twelve years or so, many designs for multicasting ATM switches are proposed. It seems about time to do a historical survey. It is hoped that by learning from the wisdom of the previous authors, now spark or angle can be found and exploited to design new multicasting ATM switches. Without easy and inexpensive multicasting, all the exciting services may become unaffordable. This will in turn lead to the diminishing of customer bases and finally will hinder the full-scale deployment of high speed network.