Everything about Packet switching
Method for transmitting data over a computer network
In telecommunications, packet switching is a method of grouping data into short messages in fixed format, i.e., packets, that are transmitted over a telecommunications network. Packets consist of a header and a payload. The header directs the packet to its destination, where the payload is extracted and used by an operating system, application software, or higher-layer protocols. Packet switching is the primary basis for data communications in computer networks worldwide. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Packet switchingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Discrete Multi-Objective Switching Topology Sliding Mode Control of Connected Autonomous Vehicles With Packet LossInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: On-board B-ISDN fast packet switching architecturesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Packet Switching in Radio Channels: Part I--Carrier Sense Multiple-Access Modes and Their Throughput-Delay CharacteristicsCited 1,632 times
- Go sideways: Donald DaviesA closely related topic
- Go sideways: NPL networkA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A means of directing digitally encoded information in a communication network from its source to its destination, in which messages may be divided into smaller entities called packets, each of which travels independently through the network in paths based on moment-to-moment routing decisions made by the nodes through which they pass.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Packet Switching in Radio Channels: Part I--Carrier Sense Multiple-Access Modes and Their Throughput-Delay Characteristics
Input Versus Output Queueing on a Space-Division Packet Switch
Packet Switching in Radio Channels: Part II--The Hidden Terminal Problem in Carrier Sense Multiple-Access and the Busy-Tone Solution
Queueing in high-performance packet switching
Techniques for optical packet switching and optical burst switching
Approaches to optical Internet packet switching
Wavelength conversion in optical packet switching
The evolution of packet switching
🆕 Influential since 2022
Discrete Multi-Objective Switching Topology Sliding Mode Control of Connected Autonomous Vehicles With Packet Loss
Packet switching in quantum networks: A path to the quantum Internet
Positiveness and Finite-Time Control of Dual-Switching Poisson Jump Networked Control Systems With Time-Varying Delays and Packet Drops
Quantum Communication Network Routing With Circuit and Packet Switching Strategies
Stabilization of networked periodic piecewise linear systems under asynchronous switching with packet dropouts
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕On-board B-ISDN fast packet switching architecturesDong-Jye Shyy · 1993
Packet forwarding technologiesWeidong Wu · 2007
Optical switching/networking and computing for multimedia systemsMohsen Guizani · 2002- 📕Evaluation of HSDPA and LTESebastian Caban · 2011
- 📕Mobile backhaulJuha Salmelin, Esa Markus Metsala · 2012
High performance switches and routersH. Jonathan Chao, H. Jonathan Chao · 2007
Cisco express forwardingNakia Stringfield · 2006
CCNP ISCW portable command guideScott Empson · 2008
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