An Adaptive Multi-Service Generic Flow Control Protocol

The emerging Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks |||(B-ISDN) will become the core of the future telecommunication infrastructure based on the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology and will provide a wide range of services such as video conferencing, video mail, image transfer high definition television, video on demand and video telephony. An aspect of Broadband ATM networks is the multiplexing of the multiple terminals (TEs) and diverse traffic types at the Customer premises Network (CPN). It is required that the access control within the CPN, connected to public broadband ATM network through a single Uder Network Interface (UNI).