A flow control protocol for CRMA/ATM networks interconnection

Losing ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) cells in an interworking unit between a high-speed LAN (local area network) such as a Gbit/s CRMA (cyclic reservation multiple access) LAN and an ATM based wide area network can be a serious problem due to the retransmissions caused by the higher layer protoco...

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Published inProceedings of ICC '93 - IEEE International Conference on Communications Vol. 1; pp. 370 - 375 vol.1
Main Authors Proietti, L., De Sanctis, M., Anzaloni, A., Bernabei, F., Gratta, L., Listanti, M.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1993
Subjects
Asynchronous transfer mode
Bandwidth
Computational modeling
Delay
LAN interconnection
Local area networks
Performance analysis
Protocols
Telecommunication traffic
Wide area networks
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Summary:Losing ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) cells in an interworking unit between a high-speed LAN (local area network) such as a Gbit/s CRMA (cyclic reservation multiple access) LAN and an ATM based wide area network can be a serious problem due to the retransmissions caused by the higher layer protocol. The authors propose a flow control protocol, which, exploiting the characteristics of the CRMA scheme, regulates the emission of cells towards the CRMA/ATM interworking unit so that its buffer resources are not saturated. The emission of the ATM stations is controlled via a backpressure mechanism. The capacity of the gateway buffer is virtually increased by utilizing the network latency as well as the station buffers. The main protocol performance is analyzed by simulation.< >
ISBN:9780780309500
0780309502
DOI:10.1109/ICC.1993.397289