Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is a cell-oriented switching and multiplexing technology that uses fixed-length (53 byte; 48 bytes of data, and 5 bytes of header information) packets — called cells — to carry various types of traffic, such as data, voice, video, multimedia, and so on, through multiple classes of services. ATM is a 1 connection-oriented technology, in which a connection is esta...

Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM, is a network transfer technique capable of supporting a wide variety of multimedia applications with diverse service and performance requirements. It supports traac bandwidths ranging from a few kilobites per second (e.g., a text terminal) to several hundred megabits per second (e.g., high deenition video) and traac types ranging from continuous, xed-rate tra...

In this paper we show how it might be possible to adapt asynchronous transfer mode technology to satellite links. Asynchronous transfer mode is a high-speed protocol designed with optic ber as the intended transmission media. Several problems arise when satellite channels are used. We propose to move the error recovery and detection from one layer of the asynchronous transfer mode protocol to a...

IEEE 1394 is a standard for a high performance serial bus interface. It encompasses both isochronous transfer mode, which is suitable for real-time applications, and asynchronous transfer mode, which is appropriate for delay-insensitive applications. This standard can be used as a basis for constructing a small-size local area network. Two queueing models are proposed for a network operating un...