Time Coding of Asynchronously Transmitted Multi-Source Data

Multiplexed data from multiple sources can be reconstructed in original temporal relationships.

A method of time coding of asynchronously transmitted data from multiple sources has been invented. The method is especially applicable to a data-acquisitionand- transfer system that operates in a standard asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), in which, at a transmitter, streams of data acquired simultaneously from multiple sources are time-multiplexed, packaged into cells that are sent sequentially over a single wide-band transmission line or other channel to a receiver. The packaging destroys the original temporal relationship among the data streams, but the method enables reconstruction of the data streams in their original temporal relationships at the receiver.