Connection level priority/pre-emption service for ATM-based networks

The development of new services for ATM networks continues, yet one service still required is end-to-end connection level priority/pre-emption (CLPP). This paper details the CLPP requirement, presents factors affecting its implementation, and provides a solution for the implementation of this service in the control plane of the ATM protocol reference model. Also presented is an analysis of a subset of the results obtained from over three thousand CLPP OPNET simulations, which were continually refined over a three-year period.