Native ATM interfaces in C and Java: implementation and experiences

Author

Dresler, Stefan ; Lisak, Robert ; Ritter, Hartmut ; Wiltfang, Hajo R.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Telematics, Karlsruhe Univ., Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

441

Lastpage

446

Abstract

ATM, the asynchronous transfer mode, represents a flexible transmission technology, which offers a set of new services to the user. In order to take advantage of ATM´s strength and to be able to integrate access to ATM services into applications, a powerful ATM application programming interface (API) is needed. At our institute, we have implemented three different variants of such an API for accessing native ATM functions. In this paper we first present the design and implementation of an ATM API in C for Digital Alpha workstations running Digital UNIX. We then describe a Java ATM API offering the socket programming environment Java programmers are used to, and finally a set of Java functions accessing the Windows NT Winsock 2 interface. We contrast the different philosophies and architectural approaches with each other and give throughput numbers

Keywords

C language; Java; application program interfaces; asynchronous transfer mode; telecommunication computing; telecommunication traffic; API; ATM; C language; Digital Alpha workstations; Digital UNIX; Java functions; Windows NT Winsock 2 interface; application programming interface; asynchronous transfer mode; native functions; service access; socket programming environment; throughput; Asynchronous transfer mode; Coordinate measuring machines; Java; Linux; Operating systems; Protocols; Sockets; Telematics; Throughput; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ATM Workshop, 1999. IEEE Proceedings

Conference_Location

Kochi

Print_ISBN

4-88552-164-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATM.1999.786894

Filename

786894