A digital network technology that breaks up a message into smaller chunks (packets) for transmission. Unlike circuit switching in traditional telephone networks, which requires the establishment ...

Before network switches, hubs were the main way to interconnect Ethernet-based networks. A hub is a quite simple device that ...

The most ubiquitous circuit-switched network is the PSTN. In addition, packet-switched X.25, frame relay and ATM networks are also connection oriented, because they require receiving nodes to ...

This has led to a paradigm shift in fronthaul network design, targeting greater flexibility and efficiency by moving to a packet-switched network using the mature and widely available Ethernet as the ...

The network includes routers which dispatch messages ... NoC is naturally oriented towards packet switching mode. It provides a best-effort service [4] and more flexibility than circuit switching mode ...