APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING QoS PARAMETERS FOR PER-SERVICE CATEGORY AGGREGATION

摘要

An apparatus (1410) and method (300) for aggregating ATM virtual channels (1420) into virtual paths in order to gain bandwidth efficiency in the ATM network (1470). Virtual channels (1420) are aggregated into virtual paths (1430) according to ATM Service Category and further by ATM Traffic Descriptors (1440) and QoS Parameters (1450). An efficient set of QoS requirements (1450) for the virtual path are determined by the QoS requirements of the constituent virtual channels (1460).