A. Maniatopoulos, Th. Antonakopoulos and V. Makios:

The Physical Layer of a Cell-based Local Area Network

The 4th International Conference on Advances in Communication and Control - COMCON’4, Rhodes, Greece, June 1993, pp. 49-58.

Abstract:  The functional description and the implementation of an experimental research prototype of the physical layer of a cell-based high-speed local area network is described. The prototype operates at 800 Mbits/sec and is based on the functionality resulting from combining functions of the Fibre Channel with the basic features of the pure ATM of the B-ISDN protocol reference model. Although most of the physical layer functions have been implemented using Field Programable Gate Arrays, high cell processing rate (1.88 Mcells/sec) has been achieved by using a parallel architecture in the various processing stages. The developed physical layer could be used in local area networks, in customer premises networks or for the user-network interface in a broadband network.

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