“…Such an architecture would enable the integration of a high speed Internet service along with native ATM applications while minimizing changes to the widely deployed IP-based applications. A number of proposals for IP/ATM integration have been suggested in the literature, while new schemes continue to appear [13,15,16]. The current proposals include classical IP over ATM [8], LAN emulation [5-61, IP-switching [7], Tag switching, [lO], CSR (Cell Switch Router) [ll], connectionless servers [14], ABR [12], and connectionless virtual networks [l-41. Our approach, referred to as an overlayed connectionless virtual-network [l-41, employs permanent VCs (VPs)…”