Carrying ATM cells over Ethernet

Author

Arco, J.M. ; Martínez, A. ; Alarcos, B. ; García, A. ; Meziat, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Autom., Univ. de Alcala, Madrid, Spain

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

342

Abstract

This paper presents the design details and performance measurements of an implementation of the Cells In Frame (CIF) protocol over the Linux operative system. The CIF protocol allows to encapsulate ATM cells in Ethernet frames, bringing in this way the advantages of ATM technology over legacy Ethernet networks. Throughput, delay, and delay variation have been measured in order to determine the ability of this approach to suite properly the requirements of multimedia traffic. The obtained results point out that this scheme will provide the necessary ATM quality of service at the price of a minimum throughput reduction respect to native Ethernet. Also, a new queuing algorithm is being researched to optimize traffic management

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; delays; local area networks; protocols; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; ATM cells; Ethernet; Ethernet frames; Linux operative system; cells in frame protocol; delay; delay variation; legacy Ethernet networks; multimedia traffic; performance measurements; protocol; queuing algorithm; throughput; traffic management; Asynchronous transfer mode; Delay; Ethernet networks; Local area networks; Protocols; Quality of service; Switches; Throughput; Traffic control; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROMICRO Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 25th

Conference_Location

Milan

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0321-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURMIC.1999.794799

Filename

794799