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Packet Switching Versus Circuit Switching: Packet Switching Allows More Users To Use Network!

Packet switching allows for more efficient use of network bandwidth compared to circuit switching. With packet switching, bandwidth is allocated on-demand when data is being sent rather than reserving dedicated bandwidth for each connection. This leads to greater resource sharing but also introduces problems like increased packet delay and loss during periods of network congestion. Providing circuit-like quality of service guarantees for real-time applications like audio and video remains an ongoing challenge with packet switching networks.

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Packet Switching Versus Circuit Switching: Packet Switching Allows More Users To Use Network!

Packet switching allows for more efficient use of network bandwidth compared to circuit switching. With packet switching, bandwidth is allocated on-demand when data is being sent rather than reserving dedicated bandwidth for each connection. This leads to greater resource sharing but also introduces problems like increased packet delay and loss during periods of network congestion. Providing circuit-like quality of service guarantees for real-time applications like audio and video remains an ongoing challenge with packet switching networks.

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Packet switching versus circuit switching

packet switching allows more users to use network!

example:
§ 1 Mb/s link
N

…..
§ each user: users
• 100 kb/s when “active” 1 Mbps link
• active 10% of time

• circuit-switching:
• 10 users Q: how did we get value 0.0004?
• packet switching:
Q: what happens if > 35 users ?
• with 35 users, probability >
10 active at same time is less
than .0004 *
Introduction 1-1
Packet switching versus circuit switching
is packet switching a “slam dunk winner?”
• great for bursty data
• resource sharing
• simpler, no call setup
• excessive congestion possible: packet delay and loss
• protocols needed for reliable data transfer, congestion
control
• Q: How to provide circuit-like behavior?
• bandwidth guarantees needed for audio/video apps
• still an unsolved problem (chapter 7)
Q: human analogies of reserved resources (circuit switching)
versus on-demand allocation (packet-switching)?
Introduction 1-2
Internet structure: network of networks

v End systems connect to Internet via access ISPs (Internet


Service Providers)
§ Residential, company and university ISPs
v Access ISPs in turn must be interconnected.
v So that any two hosts can send packets to each other
v Resulting network of networks is very complex
v Evolution was driven by economics and national policies
v Let’s take a stepwise approach to describe current Internet
structure
Internet structure: network of networks

Tier 1 ISP Tier 1 ISP Google

IXP IXP IXP

Regional ISP Regional ISP

access access access access access access access access


ISP ISP ISP ISP ISP ISP ISP ISP

• at center: small # of well-connected large networks


• “tier-1” commercial ISPs (e.g., Level 3, Sprint, AT&T, NTT), national &
international coverage
• content provider network (e.g, Google): private network that connects its
data centers to Internet, often bypassing
Introduction
tier-1, regional ISPs 1-4
Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 what is the Internet?
1.2 network edge
§ end systems, access networks, links
1.3 network core
§ packet switching, circuit switching, network structure
1.4 delay, loss, throughput in networks
1.5 protocol layers, service models
1.6 history

Introduction 1-5

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