Integrating Euro-ISDN with ATM technology: interworking mechanisms and services support

Author

Mandalos, Loukas ; Leonidou, Konstantinos ; Andreopoulos, Konstantinos ; Drakos, John ; Koubias, Stavros ; Papadopoulos, George

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Patras Univ., Greece

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

79

Abstract

This paper mainly analyzes the connection establishment phase within an InterWorking Unit (IWU), which interconnects an ATM network and Euro-ISDN network, in terms of network interworking and service interoperability. Thus, such an IWU operates as a gateway between these two networks, which differ in the transmission techniques that they use, as well as, in the services that they provide to their subscribers. The IWU handles the information of the control plane (out of band signalling) and the user data, to restore an end-to-end connection between subscribers of the two networks. Also, in this work the mapping of the user data is presented

Keywords

ISDN; asynchronous transfer mode; bandwidth allocation; internetworking; network interfaces; open systems; packet switching; quality of service; ATM technology; BRI interface; Euro-ISDN; IWU; PRI interface; QoS negotiation techniques; bandwidth allocation; connection establishment; control plane information; delay; end-to-end connection restoration; gateway; interworking mechanisms; interworking unit; network interworking; out of band signalling; service interoperability; services support; transmission techniques; user data mapping; Asynchronous transfer mode; Computer networks; ISDN; Integrated circuit interconnections; Laboratories; Quality of service; Signal restoration; Speech; Switching circuits; Time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Multiservice Networks, 2000. ECUMN 2000. 1st European Conference on

Conference_Location

Colmar

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6419-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECUMN.2000.880726

Filename

880726