Experimental ATM transport system and virtual path managementtechniques

摘要

The authors present the main points of a recently developedexperimental ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) transport system and thekey virtual path (VP) management techniques. The ATM networkconfiguration and the developed ATM cross-connect and add/dropmultiplexing (ADM) systems are outlined. They describe the designconsiderations of the VP management techniques, which include VPbandwidth specifying parameters. The newly developed usage parametercontrol techniques are then presented. An analytical method forevaluating cell multiplexing delay and cell loss characteristics formultimedia signal sources is developed. Next, by utilizing this method,a link capacity-design algorithm for accommodating VPs is proposed.Finally, the performance and application areas of the proposed algorithmare evaluated