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US 6,553,033 B1Granted
Process for optimized transmission of ATM cells over connection elements
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorEugen Wallmeier
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Abstract
The inventive process prevents a loss of ATM cells when processing ATM cells processed in accordance with the WEIGHTED FAIR QUEUEING SCHEDULING process by applying a peak bit rate limiting.
Claims4
A process for transmitting ATM cells via connection elements, having at least one of multiplexing units and demultiplexing units:
- scheduler devices arranged between said multiplexing units and said demultiplexing units, each of said scheduler devices having buffer memories, a stream of ATM cells which is allocated a multiplicity of virtual channel identifiers and virtual paths combining these virtual channel identifiers, and
- arbitrarily adjustable weighting factors representative of transmission capacity on subsequent connection elements allocated to the scheduler devices comprising the steps of:
- selecting one of the scheduler devices as determined by the allocated weighting factors;
- and
- selecting at least one of the ATM cells from one of the buffer memories of the selected scheduler device and supplying the selected ATM cell to other devices.
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