METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING REDUNDANTLY TRANSMITTED MESSAGE CELL STREAMS

摘要

In a cell-oriented communication network (ATMN), respective control cells are inserted at predetermined time intervals into two message cell streams redundantly transmitted via a path pair (EP,AP). The control cells respectively contain a sequence number that varies continuously from control cell to control cell. The appearance of control cells is separately monitored for the two message cell streams at the end of the path pair. Which of the two message cell streams is the leading message cell stream is thereby first determined on the basis of the sequence numbers appearing in the message cell streams. The leading message cell stream is then delayed until the appearance of identical sequence numbers in the message cell streams.