A new adaptive FEC scheme for ATM communications

Author

Almulhem, A. ; El-Guibaly, F. ; Gulliver, T.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

26-29 May 1996

Firstpage

806

Abstract

Congestion in ATM communications is a significant issue as it can have a dramatic effect on critical or real-time data. Forward error correction (FEC) can be used to decrease or eliminate this effect. Conventional FEC has a uniform error correction capability, which can result in poor bandwidth utilization. Adaptive FEC is more suitable because it allows a different quality of service for each data type. In this paper a versatile adaptive FEC technique is proposed. It is shown that this technique can decrease the effect of congestion and increase the channel utilization

Keywords

Reed-Solomon codes; adaptive codes; asynchronous transfer mode; error correction codes; forward error correction; telecommunication congestion control; ATM communications; RS codes; adaptive FEC scheme; channel utilization; congestion control; forward error correction; quality of service; Asynchronous transfer mode; Automatic repeat request; Bandwidth; Delay; Error correction; Forward error correction; Quality of service; Satellites; Switches; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1996. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Calgary, Alta.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3143-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1996.548275

Filename

548275