Adaptive error correction for ATM communications using Reed-Solomon codes

Author

Almulhem, A. ; El-Guibaly, F. ; Gulliver, T.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

fYear

1996

fDate

11-14 Apr 1996

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

230

Abstract

Congestion in ATM communications is a significant issue as it can have a dramatic effect on critical or real-time data. Forward error correction (FEC) can be used to decrease or eliminate this effect. Conventional FEC has a uniform error correction capability, which can result in poor bandwidth utilization. Adaptive FEC is more suitable because it allows a different quality of service for each data type. In this paper a versatile adaptive FEC technique is proposed. It is shown that this technique can decrease the effect of congestion and increase the channel utilization

Keywords

Reed-Solomon codes; adaptive codes; asynchronous transfer mode; data communication; error correction codes; forward error correction; telecommunication channels; telecommunication congestion control; ATM communications; Reed-Solomon codes; adaptive error correction; bandwidth utilization; channel utilization; congestion; forward error correction; real-time data; Asynchronous transfer mode; Automatic repeat request; Bandwidth; Delay; Error correction; Error correction codes; Forward error correction; Quality of service; Reed-Solomon codes; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '96. Bringing Together Education, Science and Technology., Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3088-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1996.510062

Filename

510062