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We propose a simple first-in first-out (FIFO)-based service protocol which
is appropriate for a multimedia ATM satellite system, The main area of inte
rest is to provide realtime traffic with upper bounds on the end-to-end del
ay, jitter, and loss experienced at various service queues within a satelli
te network, Various service protocols, each based on a common underlying st
rategy, are developed in light of the requirements and limitations imposed
at each of the satellite's subsystems. These subsystems include the uplink
(UL) earth station (ES) service queue, on-board processing (OBP) queues, an
d the downlink (DL) ES service queue feeding into a wireline ATM network or
directly to an end-user application. Numerous network simulation results d
emonstrate the tractability, efficiency, and versatility of the underlying
service discipline. Key features of our strategy are its algorithmic and ar
chitectural simplicity, its non-ad-hoc scheduling approach, and its unified
treatment of all real-time streams at all service queues, In addition, the
delay and jitter bounds are uncoupled. In this way, end-to-end jitter can
be tightly controlled even if medium access requires long indeterminate wai
ting durations.