Supporting broadband distributed accessing by using a fair control

This paper shows a new class of shared-medium access mechanism, named reset-window with buffer insertion protocol, applied to the ATM customer premises network architecture. The broadband local network consists of a unidirectional slotted ring network with spatial reuse by the destination release procedure. Under this access mechanism two levels of traffic with requested quality of service (QoS) are supported: real-time and non-real-time traffic.