Synchronization issues of a customer premises network based on cell transmissions over fiber channel interfaces

This paper presents a new synchronization method for cell-based high-speed customer premises networks. The method is based on the functionality resulting from combining functions of the Fibre Channel with the basic features of the pure ATM. The main advantages of the proposed method are its implementability even in very high speed links, the low bandwidth overhead required for the coding scheme and the low synchronization acquisition time. Various results concerning the performance of the proposed method are presented and its improved performance over other synchronization methods is verified. The proposed method may be used in installations where a huge amount of information is exchanged between locally based computing units and a connection to B-ISDN is provided