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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1995
Ken Murakami, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiro Shikama, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A transmission buffer or buffers storing therein transmission cells for at least 2 (W-n.sub.a) cell time assuming that a window size in a ring is W cells and a number of transmission cells allocated to a node in said W cells is n.sub.a pieces, a transmission cell number counter for counting a number of transmission cells from the node within the W window size from a current point of time, and a transmission control means for sending out the transmission cells stored in said transmission buffer to a transfer path if a number of cells indicated by said transmission cell number counter is within a number of transmission cells allocated to the node are provided. Also at least 2n.sub.a pieces of transmission buffers are provided as transmission buffers assuming that a number of transmission cells allocated to the node is n.sub.a pieces.