Asynchronous transfer-mode receiver

Author

Hill, M. ; Cantoni, A. ; Moors, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, Australia

Volume

139

Issue

5

fYear

1992

fDate

9/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

401

Lastpage

409

Abstract

Asynchronous cell-based transmission is the preferred transmission mode for emerging high-speed network standards such as the IEEE 802.6 metropolitan-area-network standard and the CCITT broadband integrated services digital network. These networks are envisaged to operate at bit rates in excess of 100 Mbit/s. The high bit rate and the cell-based mode of transmission pose challenging requirements on memory-buffer management and the reassembly of packets from constituent cells. The paper describes hardware architecture and memory-management techniques developed to achieve the required packet-reassembly functions and buffer-memory management for a node operating in a high speed asynchronous-transfer-mode-based network. The paper also discusses a number of major generic issues addressed during the development.

Keywords

ISDN; broadband networks; computer networks; multiplexing equipment; standards; time division multiplexing; CCITT broadband integrated services digital network; IEEE 802.6 metropolitan-area-network standard; asynchronous transfer-mode receiver; cell-based transmission; hardware architecture; high-speed network standards; memory-buffer management; memory-management techniques; packet-reassembly functions;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computers and Digital Techniques, IEE Proceedings E

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0143-7062

Type

jour

Filename

159855