1
Scope
2
References
3
Definitions
4
Abbreviations
and acronyms
5
Overview
6
Mode
of operation
6.1
Sequencing
payload traffic
6.2
Bonding
Group ID (GID) and Management Entity (ME)
6.3
Autonomous
Status Messages (ASMs)
6.4
Link
eligibility and link activation
6.5
Measurement
of bonding group differential delay
6.6
Compensation
of differential delay by the CPE transmitting entity
7 Reference models
7.1
User
plane protocol reference model
7.2
Bonding
sublayer in layer reference model
7.3
Functional
reference model
8
Cell
header formats
8.1
Autonomous
Status Messages (ASM)
8.2
Idle
and unassigned cells
8.3
OAM
and ATM payload cells
8.4
HEC
errors
9
Bonding
group internal control protocol
9.1
Types
of control message
10 Initialization
11 External management
11.1
OAM
interface primitives
11.2
OAM
channel between NMS and bonding entity
11.3
Cell
rate adjustment
11.4
MIB
elements
Appendix I – Optional initialization procedure facilitating
spectral optimization
Appendix II – Sample initialization for the ATM bonding
protocol
Appendix III – Link status state machine
Appendix IV – Example of algorithm to derive the end-to-end
delay
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