Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2006-10-10
Computer Science
Information Theory
21 pages, 25 figures, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Scientific paper
All communication networks comprise of transmission systems and switching systems, even though they are usually treated as two separate issues. Communication channels are generally disturbed by noise from various sources. In circuit switched networks, reliable communication requires the error-tolerant transmission of bits over noisy channels. In packet switched networks, however, not only can bits be corrupted with noise, but resources along connection paths are also subject to contention. Thus, quality of service (QoS) is determined by buffer delays and packet losses. The theme of this paper is to show that transmission noise and packet contention actually have similar characteristics and can be tamed by comparable means to achieve reliable communication, and a number of analogies between switching and transmission are identified. The sampling theorem of bandlimited signals provides the cornerstone of digital communication and signal processing. Recently, the Birkhoff-von Neumann decomposition of traffic matrices has been widely applied to packet switches. With respect to the complexity reduction of packet switching, we show that the decomposition of a doubly stochastic traffic matrix plays a similar role to that of the sampling theorem in digital transmission. We conclude that packet switching systems are governed by mathematical laws that are similar to those of digital transmission systems as envisioned by Shannon in his seminal 1948 paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication.
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