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Designed by ATM forum (formed in Oct. 1991 )and adopted by ITU-T Combination of ATM and SONET allows high interconnection of the world network.
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Design Goals
Optimize use of high data rate transmission media e.g fiber optics and new equipments are less susceptible to noise degradation. A technology is needed to take advantage of both factors. The system must interface with existing systems and provide wide area interconnectivity B/W them without lowering their effectiveness. The design must be implemented inexpensively so that cost would not be a barrier to adopt. The new system must be able to work with existing telecom hierarchies(local loop, local provider, long haul and so on).
Design Goals
The new system should be connection oriented to ensure accurate and predictable delivery. One objective is to move as many of functions to hardware as possible (for speed) and eliminate as many software functions as possible (again for speed).
Problems
Problems associated with existing systems; Frame networks: Before ATM,DC at DDL based on frame switching and frame networks. Different protocols use frames of varying size. As network become more complex, the information that must be carried in header become more expensive. The result larger and larger headers relative to the size of data unit. In response, some protocols have enlarged the size of the data unit to make header use more efficient. Unfortunately, large data fields create waste if there is not much information to transmit. To improve utilization, some protocols provide variable frame size to users.
Mixed network traffic: The variety of frame sizes makes traffic unpredictable.switches, multiplexes and router must incorporate software systems to manage the various sizes of frames. A great deal of header information must be read and each bit counted and evaluated to ensure the integrity of every frame. Internetworking among different frame works is slow and expensive.
Another problem is that of providing consistent data rate delivery when frame sizes are predictable and can vary so dramatically. To get the most out of broadband technology, traffic must be TDM onto shared paths. Imagine onto one link. What happen when line 1 uses large frames(data frames) while line 2 uses small frames(audio or video). In fig. Large size of X create unfair delay for frame A,B & C.This makes shared medium unusable and create unacceptable delays for audio and video traffic.The traffic must travel among different paths, like automobile and train traffic.but , to fully utilize broad bandwidth links, we need to be able to send all kinds of traffic over same link.
Frames of diff. Sizes are split into smaller data unit of equal size and are loaded into cells. The cells are multiplexed with others are routed through the cell network.
ATM uses asynchronous time division multiplexing, that is why it is called asynchronous Transfer Mode to multiplex cells coming from different channels. It uses fixed size slot(size of cell). ATM multiplexers fill a slot with a cell from any input channel that has a cell; the slot is empty if none of the channels has a cell to send.
a virtual connection is defined by a pair of numbers: the VPI and the VCI.
Connection identifier:
An ATM cell
ATM layers
Physical layer
ATM cells can be carried by any physical layer carrier like Ethernet& wireless LAN.
SONET is original design on which ATM based Reason for using SONET
High data rate & boundaries of cell can be clearly defined by pointer
Transmission Convergence (TC) handles error detection, framing & Physical medium dependent (PMD) sublayer handles encoding
ATM layer
It provides routing, traffic management, switching & multiplexing services. Also Handles virtual circuits, cell header generation, flow control It process outgoing traffic by accepting 48 bytes segment from AAL sub layer & transform them into 53 byte cell by addition of a 5 bytes header.
ATM headers
GFC(4 bit provides flow control at UNI,no need in NNI),VPI(8 bit in UNI& 12 bit in NNI), VCI(16 bit in both frame headers),PT(3 bit, define user data/ managerial info.)CLP(1 bit),HEC(1 byte)
AAL was designed to accept any types of payload, both data frames and streams of bits. It has two sub layers:
CS(convergence sub layer)& SAR(segmentation & Reassembly)
These two layers break the data into chunks that are encapsulated into a cell at ATM layer. CS checks the integrity of data and SAR segmented the data at source & reassembly the data at the designation
AAL1
Support Apps. That transfer info. At constant bit rate such as video and voice It allows ATM to connect existing digital telephone network such as voice channels and T lines. In this CS divides bit stream into 47 bytes segments and pass them to SAR. CS adds no header here but SAR adds 1 byte header and passes the 48 bytes segment to ATM layer. SN(sequence number)- 4 bit used to order the bits
AAL1
AAL2
Original design was to support a variable data rate bit stream But it has been redesigned for low bit rate traffic and short frame such as audio, video or fax. It is also uses in mobile telephony. The process of encapsulating short frames from the same source(the same user of mobile phone) or from several sources(several users of mobile telephones) into one cell is shown.
AAL2
AAL3/4
AAL3/4
AAL5
AAL5
Applications
Government
FDDI100 Mbps
QoS in ATM
UBR: Unspecified bit rate; Best effort delivery that does not guarantee anything.
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User-Related attributes: Defines how fast the user want to send data.
Sustained cell rate: Average cell rate over a long time interval. Actual cell rate can be higher or lower but average should be equal or less than SCR Peak cell rate: Senders maximum cell rate. Minimum cell rate: Senders minimum cell rate. Cell Variation delay tolerance: Measure of variation in cell transmission times. This is the difference between the minimum and maximum delays in delivering the cells.
ATM Network
Network related attributes are those that define characteristics of the network.
Cell loss ratio (CLR): Fraction of cells lost (or delivered so late that they are considered lost) during transmission.
Cell transfer delay (CTD): average time needed for a cell to travel from source to destination.
Cell delay variation (CDV): difference between CTD maximum and CTD minimum
Reliability: Lack of reliability means losing a packet or acknowledgement, which entails retransmission. Different application programs need different levels of reliability. Delay: Source-to-destination delay. Delay tolerance varies between applications. Jitter: Variation in delay for packets belonging to the same flow. Realtime audio and video applications cannot tolerate high jitter. Bandwidth: bits per second Flow classes: Depend on flow characteristics, we can classify flow into groups e.g., CBR, UBR, etc.