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- From: george@hal (George Marshall)
- Subject: Re: Bare Bones Adaptation
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.043325.2784@adaptive.com>
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- Organization: ADAPTIVE Corporation
- References: <1992Sep1.154417.10424@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:33:25 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- >I have a question on the "lean mean" AAL5 adaption layer:
- >
- >Does this definition cover only the begin and end of message
- >indication, leaving the byte count and checksum to be handled
- >by the application specific upper layer?
- >
- >For instance, let's say I am collecting arbitrary uncompressed audio
- >from a continous source. With this application, I really have no checksum
- >requirement, no message boundaries, just collect bytes.
- >
- >Is this the bare bones adaption layer?
-
- For a continuous bit stream source as you described, there are other
- (simpler?) adaptation layers defined/contemplated:
-
- AAL1 (Class A) is a "Constant Bit Rate" AAL; this AAL is intended for
- use in emulating a real (as opposed to virtual) circuit service;
- there are no packet boundaries, and the primary function of this AAL
- is to provide sufficient information to allow the bit stream timing
- to be re-created at the destination (necessary since there will have
- been some jitter as the cells moved through the network. The
- definition of AAL1 is about complete.
-
- AAL2, (Class B) which is in a less mature definition state, is
- intended for Variable Bit Rate (VBR) services, in which the data
- stream is still a bit stream, but the data rate is not constant; an
- example of the use of VBR services would be compressed voice or
- video, in which there is some nominal maximum rate, but due to
- silence or good compression, there may be less than the nominal
- channel max.
-
- George
-
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