The Effect of Network Structure and Signal Settings on the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram

Recently it has been proposed that the performance of a complete network can be represented graphically using only aggregated data for flow and density. The resulting graph is the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD), which relates the average flow (performance) to the number of vehicles in the network (accumulation). The resulting shape is...

IP Switching and Tag Switching: Integrating IP and ATM using Tag- or IP Switching

The way in which Internet traffic is currently forwarded does not support the increasing number of users and bandwidth demand. This report describes, analyses and compares two inter-networking techniques, IP Switching and Tag Switching, which can provide a solution to this problem. They provide a way to use ATM as a fast link layer technology to...