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Flow-Rate-Regulated Burst Switches

  • US 20090207859A1
  • Filed: 04/21/2009
  • Published: 08/20/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of temporal switching of a succession of data bursts of variable sizes each of said data bursts containing information bits and belonging to one of a multiplicity of data streams and each of said data streams is granted an allocated flow rate, the method comprising steps of:

  • segmenting each of said data bursts into data segments, each of said data segments containing a number of said information bits not exceeding a predefined fixed segment size of W bits;

    complementing each of said data segments having a number of information bits less than W with null bits;

    recording the number of said information bits in each of said data segments;

    writing said resulting succession of data segments in at least one memory device;

    reading, from said at least one memory device, data bursts according to said allocated flow rate granted to each data stream.

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