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Mechanism for shaping the emitted traffic at ATM terminal‐points
Author(s) -
Koukos A. K.,
Evangelatos A. F.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.541
Subject(s) - asynchronous transfer mode , computer science , header , asynchronous communication , multiplexing , transmitter , computer network , atm adaptation layer , quality of service , mechanism (biology) , telecommunications , channel (broadcasting) , philosophy , epistemology
A mechanism for controlling the emitted traffic to asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network, system design and implementation architectures are introduced. Specifically, the effective rate of a stream, defined under certain multiplexing conditions and quality‐of‐service specifications, is enforced to desired values by controlling the cell emission rate of the generated bursts. The traffic shaping mechanism is closely associated to an ATM transmitter, which is mainly responsible for ATM cell assembly and header error control. The mechanism has been designed to support data communication services. The whole system has been implemented as a VLSI circuit. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.