ATM Nodes with Light-Weight Flow-Control for High- Speed, Multi-Protocol ATM-WAN

摘要

We propose ATM switching nodes with a feedback rate control scheme, AREX, which does not require a large buffer space and does not deteriorate throughput even in large-scale and high-speed ATM-WANs. The goal of our study is to establish the ATM multi-protocol emulation network ALPEN, which is an STM-WAN architecture for establishing a backbone for multimedia networks. ALPEN achieves an ATM- WAN which is robust against long propagation delays. It also provides high performance without a large buffer space in an ATM-WAN environment.