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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1997
John Leslie Hullett, Daglish, AU;
Antonio Cantoni, City Beach, AU;
Zigmantas Leonas Budrikis, Dalkeith, AU;
Vaughan William Wittorff, Bunbury, AU;
Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, AU;
Abstract
A method of controlling the flow of traffic in synchronous transfer mode (ATM) network ( ), which brings into possible existence a class (class II) of ATM cells. The ATM network ( ) comprises one or more ATM switches ( ) coupled by links ( ) providing communication channels between the ATM switches ( ). The method subjects the class II cells received at an input port of a particular ATM switch ( ) to control, originating within the switching element of that ATM switch. The method allows only up to a fixed number of class II cells from a particular input port to be in the switch awaiting onward transfer. Although the control is on class, it nonetheless tends to produce fairness in service among different connections.