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Multiple services with heterogeneous Quality Of Services (QoS) requirements are supported in ATM networks. The cell scheduling discipline is needed to utilize the network resources efficiently and guarantee the QoS requirements. FCFS is the simplest and easiest scheme for hardware implemeyntation. However, because of its lack of support of prioritizing scheme and inefficiency of buffer usage, it is not suitable to support QoS -guarantee servics .Therefore, a modified FCFS scheme with QoSguarantee is proposed in this paper. Inheriting the simplicity of FCFS, we modify the FIFO by adding adaptive queues for priority handing to satisfy the diverse QoS requirements. The buffer sizes of the adaptive queues could be decided by the traffic load and cell delay constraint to grarantee the cell loss rate. As a result, the proposed modified FIFO scheme is simple in hardware implementation, while it has the ability to handle multiple QoS priorities. The performance evaluation shows that the accessible offered load in our proposed scheme is better than the others proposed before.
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