The public telecommunications network is a sophisticated and complex system that can transport various forms of information. However, it provides no means to transport digital isochronous signals that do not rigidly conform to its standards. The ability to so has the potential of increasing applications for telecommunications service providers.;This thesis addresses this issue by describing a novel technique called Universal Isochronous Payload Multiplexing (UIPM). UIPM is as method that allows synchronous transport, over the public network, of digital signals that cannot normally be transported by such a facility. UIPM accomplishes this by providing a mechanism to adapt arbitrary-rate digital isochronous signals into the payload portion of an industry-standard telecommunications carrier.;Three major components of UIPM are developed in this thesis: the UIPM generic format, the UIPM format design algorithm, and experimental hardware. The UIPM generic format is a variable length plesiochronous multiplexing format whose final length is determined by the UIPM format design algorithm. Predicted jitter performance is used by the algorithm to determine which one of many feasible UIPM format sizes is optimum for adapting a given input signal into a desired carrier. Actual jitter performance of optimum UIPM formats is measured with the experimental hardware that can be configured to emulate key time-base functions of any UIPM format.;This thesis provides predicted jitter performance for signal rates ranging from 1 Mb/s to 44 Mb/s in 100 kb/s increments, adapted via UIPM into a DS3 payload. Over 95% of these signal rates resulted in worst case predicted jitter of less than 0.5 UI p-p. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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