Apparatus and method for identifying boundary of asynchronous transfer mode cell

Abstract

An ATM cell boundary identification apparatus and method. The apparatus comprises an idle cell inserting unit for inserting an idle cell into a cell transmitted from an ATM layer to be matched therewith in its speed; a header error cell generating unit for generating a header error cell by means of header information of the cell transmitted from the idle cell inserting unit; a cell scrambling unit for scrambling payload of the cell received from the header error cell generating unit; a transmission framer for converting the cell obtained in the cell scrambling unit to be suitable to a frame E1; a line interfacing unit for transmitting a transmission frame obtained in the transmission framer to a transmission line after converting it into a bipolar transmission signal, and for transmitting the cell received from the transmission line to a reception framer; a reception framer for identifying a boundary of the cell according to each time slot of the cell transmitted from the line interfacing unit to thereby extract a header error cell; and a header error cell detecting unit for detecting the header error cell extracted from the reception framer, and checking whether the extracted cell is effective or not.

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