considering a) that satellites operating in the fixed-satellite service play an important role in providing reliable international digital communications; b) that, therefore, satellite performance must comply with performance objectives as specified by ITU-T Recommendation I.356-B-ISDN ATM layer cell transfer performance; c) that in defining performance criteria, it is necessary to take into ac...

The need to support applications that are distributed on wide-local area networks or on multicomputer systems and that require large data transfer and low delay, drives the development of faster and more efficient ways of transporting and switching data. This work has led to the definition of new communication protocols and to the introduction in the telecommunication networks of fast packet-ba...

Three different transport modes have been specified and standardized for use in various Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL) systems: Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Synchronous Transfer Mode (STM) and more recently Packet Transfer Mode (PTM). Although ATM and STM have successfully been used for the transport of IEEE 802.3 MAC Frames (more commonly called Ethernet frames), PTM is generally believed...

Conventional delay-insensitive (DI) data encodings require 2N+1 wires for transferring N-bit. To reduce complexity and power dissipation of wires in designing a large scaled chip, a DI data transfer mechanism based on current-mode multiple valued logic (CMMVL), where N-bit data transfer can be performed with only N+1 wires, is proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed data transfer mechanism ...