International Business Machines Corporation

Xavier Jacquart

Claude R Galand

Edward Stanely Suffern

Victor Spagnol

Philippe Pierre Louis

Ilias Iliadis

Rene J Glaise

Aline Fichou

Gerald Lebizay

Hong Linh Truong

Clement Y Poiraud

Eric S Georges

Jean-yves Leboudec

Traffic congestion control is provided for a network node multiport switch capable of switching data packets of different priorities from input lines, via receive adapters, to output lines via transmit adapters. A spacing function is performed to limit the rate of data transfers through the switch in the absence of high priority data at the input lines and in the absence of a backpressure signal indicating the switch is congested at its output. If high priority data is detected or a backpressure signal has been generated, the data transfer rate is increased to deal with possible congestion.

Method and system for performing traffic congestion control in a data

A multipurpose data communication network node for interconnecting both ATM and Variable Length (VL) input/output trunks with all combinations of node input versus output trunk connections. The network node includes ATM/VL Receive Adapters and ATM/VL Transmit Adapters, interconnected via a Switching device (44) operating on ATM like packets (i.e. ATM cells) only. The receive adapter includes means (41, 43) for deriving switchable cells from VL traffic possibly including ATM packets and provided over an input VL trunk and means (45, 46) for deriving switchable cells from ATM packets provided on input ATM trunk. The transmit adapter, includes means (47, 48) for reconstructing VL traffic to be fed onto an output VL trunk, and means (49, 50) for reconstructing ATM traffic to be fed onto an output ATM trunk; both means (47, 48) and (49, 50) being fed with switchable cells irrespective of the traffic origin, being it from VL or ATM trunks.

Multipurpose packet switching node for a data communication network

A method and an apparatus for calculating and checking the Frame Check Sequence (FCS) of a message comprising a sequence of data bytes. A Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC) is used to generate the FCS at one end and check the message at the other end. For each new byte of the sequence of data bytes, the current FCS, which is a vector of the Galois Field is multiplied by .alpha..sup.8, another vector of the Galois Field.

Method to ensure data integrity in a telecommunications network

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