Bandwidth allocation, transmission scheduling, and congestion avoidance in broadband atm networks

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A wide variety of call traffic is effectively integrated in a single broadband communications network. Calls having widely differing bandwidth requirements and sensitivities to delay are handled by the network with efficient effective, and fair bandwidth allocation and transmission scheduling. This is accomplished by classifying each call in accordance with certain signal characteristics such as required bandwidth and sensitivity to delay. Each call class is directed to a separate queuing circuit. Some calls in certain classes such as those associated with, high-bandwidth constant bit rate services are each directed to their own individual queuing circuits. Other calls within a class are …