Log N-stage self-fouting ATM concentrator

Log N 단 자기루팅 ATM 셀 집중기

In this paper, we propoe a log N-stage ATM concentator. ATM concentrator is used in the ATM access network to concentrate the traffic offered at UNI, so that high utilization of the newtork rewources is achieved. The concetrator may be used as a construction block in the design of ATM switch. We define abasic element, named equalizer, and decribe its function and theory to construct an efficient concentrator using the element. In addition, a control scheme to enhance the concentrator to a superconcentrator is presented, which enables the concentration to start from an arbitrary output. This scheme makes it possible to construct an efficient ditributior or a barrel shifter which are often used in ATM switch and other application. The proposed concentrator has a low hardware complexity of O(N log N), thus it is economical to implement. Also, the time complexity of proposed concentrator for determining the rouging is O(N log N), which is faster than that of the existing ones.