A study of the inverse multiplexing for ATM (IMA) protocol

Author

Isnard, Olivier ; Calmel, Jean-Marie ; Beylot, Andre-Luc ; Pujolle, Guy

Author_Institution

Nortel Networks-Wireless Solutions, Yvelines, France

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

519

Lastpage

524

Abstract

Many public service providers and companies have built their ATM networks over traditional T1/E1 infrastructure. As the need for the extra bandwidth increases, the ATM Forum has specified the inverse multiplexing for ATM (IMA) protocol that describes a method for transporting the ATM traffic over a logical group of multiple T1/E1 links. This paper outlines some IMA features and intends to show that some specific losses of cell delineation (LCD) can periodically occur. Based on the study of the sender buffer of the transmission convergence function, a solution to avoid such a LCD is proposed

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; protocols; ATM traffic; IMA protocol; inverse multiplexing for ATM protocol; losses of cell delineation; multiple T1/E1 links; sender buffer; transmission convergence function; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Manufacturing; Physical layer; Propagation losses; Service oriented architecture; Standards publication; Telecommunication traffic; Transmitters; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Switching and Routing, 2000. ATM 2000. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Heidelberg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5884-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPSR.2000.856703

Filename

856703