Title :
Integrated telephone/fax/paging/e-mail services over ATM/MAN-based personal communication networks
Author :
Chan, Henry C B ; Leung, Victor C M
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
An ATM/MAN-based personal communication network (PCN) architecture is presented which combines the broadcast and distributed advantages of metropolitan area networks (MANs) for handling local traffic, and the high speed switching capability of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) for wide area connectivity. A dynamic bandwidth allocation scheme is employed to integrate different types of traffic over MANs. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the advantages of the integration scheme. We also propose a suffix-dialing method for integrating existing telephone, fax, paging and e-mail services over ATM/MAN-based PCNs using a single personal identity number (PIN)
Keywords :
asynchronous transfer mode; bandwidth allocation; electronic mail; facsimile; metropolitan area networks; paging communication; personal communication networks; telecommunication traffic; telephony; ATM; ATM/MAN-based personal communication networks; PCN architecture; PIN; asynchronous transfer mode; broadband multiplexers; distributed/broadcast switches; dynamic bandwidth allocation; e-mail; fax; high speed switching; integrated services; local traffic; metropolitan area networks; paging; personal identity number; simulation results; suffix-dialing method; telephone service; traffic integration; wide area connectivity; Asynchronous transfer mode; Broadcasting; Channel allocation; Communication switching; Electronic mail; Metropolitan area networks; Personal communication networks; Telecommunication traffic; Telephony; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Universal Personal Communications, 1998. ICUPC '98. IEEE 1998 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Florence
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5106-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICUPC.1998.732810
