1 Introduction
2
Cell structure coding
2.1 Cell structure
2.2 Cell header format and encoding at UNI
2.2.1 Pre-assigned values of the physical cell
header
2.2.2 Generic Flow Control (GFC) field
2.2.3 Routing field (VPI/VCI)
2.2.4 Payload Type (PT) field
2.2.5 Cell Loss Priority (CLP) field
2.2.6 Header Error Control (HEC) field
2.3 Cell header format
and encoding at NNI
2.3.1 Pre-assigned values of the cell header
2.3.2 Routing field (VPI/VCI)
2.3.3 Payload Type (PT) field
2.3.4 Cell Loss Priority (CLP) field
2.3.5 Header Error Control (HEC) field
2.4 Cell information field
2.4.1 Pre-assigned values
3
Service primitives
3.1 Primitives exchanged with the upper layer
3.1.1
Description of primitives
3.1.2 Descriptions of parameters
3.2 Primitives exchanged with the lower layer
3.2.1 Description of primitives
3.2.2 Description of parameter
3.3 Primitives exchanged with ATM Management (ATMM) -entity
3.3.1 Description of primitives
3.3.2 Description of parameters
4
ATM protocol procedures
4.1 GFC protocol procedures
4.1.1 GFC field assignment
4.1.2 GFC procedures
4.2 Layer management communication
4.3 Layer management
4.3.1 Fault management
4.3.2 Performance management
4.3.3 Configuration management
4.3.4 Resource management
Annex A – Alphabetical list of abbreviations used in this Recommendation
Annex B – SDL diagrams for GFC procedures
Appendix I – Pre-assigned values of physical cell headers