摘要 |
The method involves storing data cells from a source in an access buffer memory organised as a holding file. At the data source, a predetermined number of credit managers are formed, with the amount of credit and rates generated according to a decreasing series of data. A first cell is transmitted, with each credit manager containing an amount of credit at least equal to the length of the cell at the flow rate corresponding to the bandwidth of the network. All the credit managers are decremented by a credit unit. When credit is exhausted, transmission follows automatically at the regeneration rate (r1) until the next credit manager (R2) is exhausted. This follows at correspondingly decreasing regeneration rates (r2 .. Rn). |