procedures for monitoring and smoothing of data streams, according to an asynchronous communications protocol to be transmitted.

摘要

For a transmission line via which message cells are forwarded by a multiplicity of virtual connections with connection-individually defined transmission bit rate in accordance with an asynchronous transmission method, a method is proposed in which a time slot in which the relevant message cell is to be forwarded is determined for each message cell in dependence on the transmission bit rate defined for the associated connection and the distance in time between the message cells intended for forwarding and belonging to the same connection, a respective message cell being either discarded as determined by the time slot determined for it or being stored in the respective determined or a subsequent time slot until forwarded, as a result of which, on the one hand, the connection-individually defined transmission bit rate is strictly limited and, on the other hand, an evening out of the message cell sequence belonging to a respective virtual connection is effected.