PARALLEL TRANSPORT-SYSTEM DESIGN

Requirements of emerging applications together with rapid advances in networking technology towards gigabit cell based ATM networks require new adequate transport systems. Integrated designs of transport services, protocol architecture, and implementation features are increasingly needed for the stringent requirements of forthcoming applications on high-speed cell based ATM networks. Explicit support of parallelism can help in performance issues as well as in service flexibility. The transport subsystem PATROCLOS (parallel transport subsystem for cell based high speed networks) is designed with special emphasis on a high degree of inherent parallelism. This allows efficient implementations on multiprocessor architectures such as transputer networks combined with specialised hardware for very time critical functions.