Advanced cost-effective long-delay broadband ATM medium access control technology and multifunctional architecture

The key problem on the way to future ATM public networks and mass market deployment of broadband and multimedia services is the implementation of low-cost distributed multifunctional ATM systems of personal access for mass usage. For designing the future ATM communication technologies of such networks it is necessary overcome at least three principal barriers: the first is the "time barrier" (concerning the hyperlong bit delay), the second is the "dynamic barrier" (concerning the bandwidth and QoS "on-the-fly" dynamic control), and the third is the "economic barrier" (concerning the low-cost and mass ATM market implementation). In this paper, new multi-access ATM communication technology for distributed hyperlong-delay multifunctional broadband networks is offered. The main ideas are: development of opportunities of the MAC ATM and carrying over the principles of the simple and inexpensive local areas LAN and WATM architecture down, to global areas-metropolitan, wide-area, and mobile satellite broadband ATM. This technology ensures to overcome these three barriers successfully.