ASHMEN-an approach to ATM services over shared media networks

The resource management for ASHMEN (ATM over Shared Media Networks) is concerned with Quality-of-Service (QoS) support and QoS provision in the local area networking environment in order to offer wide area ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) services over shared media networks. Based on a prototypical implementation, including the design of a highly flexible resource management scheme, empirical values in terms of statistical QoS guarantees for delay and throughput have been investigated. The approach developed determines that in-advance performance assumptions can be maintained during the operation of ATM connections between an ATM backbone and ASHMEN-capable end systems attached to a shared media network via an Attachment Device.