Buffer management and flow control in the Credit Net ATM host interface

Author

Kosak, Corey ; Eckhardt, David ; Mummert, Todd ; Steenkiste, Peter ; Fisher, Allan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

16-19 Oct 1995

Firstpage

370

Lastpage

378

Abstract

Among the many benefits of ATM networking are the potential for connections with negotiated quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees and application-specific data management at network endpoints. We describe the architecture of a PCI bus host adapter for OC-3 and OC-12 ATM, focusing on challenges in the areas of buffer management and flow control, since these are vital to realizing the bandwidth and QoS potential of ATM endpoint hosts

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; buffer storage; computer networks; storage management; system buses; telecommunication congestion control; ATM endpoint hosts; ATM networking; Credit Net ATM host interface; OC-12 ATM; OC-3 ATM; PCI bus host adapter architecture; application-specific data management; bandwidth; buffer management; flow control; negotiated quality-of-service guarantees; network endpoints; Algorithm design and analysis; Application specific integrated circuits; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Computer science; Quality management; Quality of service; Switches; Virtual colonoscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1995., Proceedings. 20th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7162-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1995.527365

Filename

527365