METODO PER L'IMPLEMENTAZIONE DELLE FUNZIONI DI PROTOCOLLO DEL LIVELLO DI ADATTAMENTO ATM PER FLUSSI DI DATI NUMERICI A VELOCITA' VARIABILE IN UNA RETE ATM

摘要

The object of the invention is a method or protocol for the adaptation of digital multimedia data flows at variable speed (the quantity of information of the flow is not constant within the time unit), for services requiring the synchronization of the receiver with the source, in the payload of ATM cells transmitted, at their turn in a discontinued way. The method is based on the identification of a set of Mj integer information blocks of one of the components of the multimedia flow generated with a constant recurrence frequency TMj and including a whatsoever number Bl of integer data blocks of each other I-th multimedia component. The set is therefore inserted together with additional service data in the payload of Ni ATM cells in such a way that it will be possible to identify the first n (1<=n<