| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a new concept for a variable-length packet process at a very high data transmission speed by providing a packet processor with a distributor which distributes packets to several parallel identical process paths, supplying the packets to the respective process paths, and enabling the packet information of only one packet to be processed for the packet at an arbitrary moment. SOLUTION: A packet stream of variable-length packets which arrive and are received and arrayed is supplied to parallel process paths of the packet processor 40, and demultiplexed into N substreams of variable-length packets or virtual process paths. Demultiplexing is carried out without altering the packets contents. The number N depends upon the data transmission speed or data throughput, the number of priority levels, the number of cycles that the following processes require, the length of the packets, and other parameters. As the data throughput is higher and higher, more and more substreams or virtual process paths are needed.
|
