HCR (HYBRID CYCLE RESET) PROTOCOL FOR DISTRIBUTED HIGH-SPEED MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

This paper describes a shared medium access control protocol for resid ential home and small business customer ATM network application with d istributed high-speed multimedia services. This protocol offers global fairness for the whole network with a CG (Centralized Grant) signal a nd, at the same time, offers local fairness between nodes with DG (Dis tributed Grant) signals. The DG signal is only meaningful to the next neighboring node. The local fairness is kept between two nodes in dist ributed way, but this distributed local fairness helps to keep the glo bal fairness. Because the DG signal is related to the passed DG signal from the neighbor node. This protocol is rather simple but shows high performance than the already announced protocols.