• Kawarasaki, M. and Jabbari, B., "B-ISDN architecture and protocol," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol.9, (no.9):1405-15, Dec. 1991. (article image available through MELVYL).

    Let's focus on this paper first and (some of) the slides mentioned in the next bullet.

  • Peter Newman's ATM tutorial (get it by a-ftp [PostScript])


  • Siu, K.-Y. and Jain, R., "A brief overview of ATM: Protocol layers, LAN emulation, and traffic management," Computer Communication Review, vol.25, (no.2):6-20, April 1995. (PostScript)
    More papers on ATM and related topics (and where I found the above) available from here.

  • Roberts, L.G., "ATM overview," Proceedings of IEEE COMPCON '94, San Francisco, CA, USA, p. 94-103, 28 Feb.-4 March 1994. (article image available through MELVYL).

  • "B-ISDN and the OSI Protocol Reference Model" by M DePrycker, R.Peschi and T. Van Landegem from IEEE Network (3/93) pp10
  • "Broadband ISDN abd Asynchronous Transfer Mode" by S. Minzer from IEEE Comm. (9/89) pp17
  • "Issues and Challenges in ATM Networks" by R. Vetter and D.Du from CACM 38,2 (2/95) pp29
  • Some Journal Special Issues on ATM
    • Computer Communication Review, vol. 25, no. 2, April 1995.
    • Communications of the ACM, vol. 38, no. 2, February 1995.
    • SmartNet, Spring/Summer 1993. (introductory)