Examine the usage of the mechanism of ATM to implement the new features offered by IPv6

• Main Author: Shanmugam Sakthivel Shanmugam.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Computer-communication networks
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/13357
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

ATM networks are point to point networks that offer no connectionless broadcast or multicast capabilities on the ATM datalink. Some mechanism are needed on top of the ATM datalink to handle those protocols or function, such as IPv6, which rely on connectionless multicast capabilities. This dissertat...