INTERNET APPLICATIONS OVER ATM NETWORKS

Abstract

Current Internet applications cannot take advantage of the variety of service classes offered by ATM networks. This is due to the stacking and without specific scheduling mechanisms, of a best-effort network layer on top of ATM. ATM networks are used for real time traffic, such as audio and video. ATM networks can maintain the quality of service effectively and efficiently. We know that, ATM is fundamentally a packet switching technology not a circuit switching technology (although it can emulate circuit switching fairly well), The Internet applications are c-mail, net news, WWW (Word Wide Web) etc; which is used by the most of people. This architecture is modify for running TCP-based applications over ATM. This architecture relies on the standard TCP protocol and offers at the socket layer the means to specify an ATM traffic contract. This gives an immediate ATM access to a rich set of familiar applications. It also helps satisfying the increasing need of resource control for Internet applications.