Learning Objectives

• Understand the role of switching in communication networks
• Describe and compare circuit, virtual-circuit packet and datagram packet switching
• Calculate timing/delay for delivering data with different switching methods

Lecture Material

• Lecture Notes: View, Print, Source

Readings

• Stallings: chapter 10
• Forouzan: chapter 8
• Kurose: chapter 1.3, 4.2

Videos

• Last year: Circuit and Packet Switching, Performance of Circuit and Packet Switching

Notes

• Notes from the lecture are below. Hover over the image to see a description; right-click and view the image to zoom in.