Burst tolerance. Parameter defined by the ATM Forum for ATM traffic management. For VBR connections, BT determines the size of the maximum burst of contiguous cells that can be transmitted.

The basic unit for ATM switching and multiplexing. Cells contain identifiers that specify the data stream to which they belong. Each cell consists of a 5-byte header and 48 bytes of payload.

Network technology based on the use of small, fixed-size packets, or cells. Because cells are fixed-length, they can be processed and switched in hardware at high speeds. Cell relayis the basis for many high-speed network protocols including ATM, IEEE 802.6, and SMDS.

Service-independent sub layer of the data link layer in an ATM network. The ATM layer receives the 48-byte payload segments from the AAL and attaches a 5-byte header to each, producing standard 53-byte ATM cells. These cells are passed to the physical layer for transmission across the physical medium.

Asynchronous Transfer Mode. International standard for cell relay in which multiple service types (such as voice, video, or data) are conveyed in fixed-length (53-byte) cells. Fixed-length cells allow cell processing to occur in hardware, thereby reducing transit delays. ATM is designed to take advantage of high-speed transmission media such as E3, SONET, and T3.

The document view architecture was introduced in MFC 2.0. In this architecture the application's data is represented as a "document" object and the views of this data are represented as "view" objects. E.g. If you create an excel document what you see to get your job done i.e. cells, values, etc comprises the view and when you save this data it gets saved as a document. The various views of this document is as a table, graphs, bar charts, etc. The data is stored in a document object. The class representing the document object is CDocument. The sole purpose of this class is to manage an application's data. Views server two purposes: renders visual representation of data stored in document and translate the user's inputs into commands that operate on the data in the document. The class for view is CView. Thus the division of work in terms of data and view helps in work division, better productivity and reusability of code.

common part convergence sublayer. One of the two sublayers of any AAL. The CPCS is service-independent and is further divided into the CS and the SAR sublayers. The CPCS is responsible for preparing data for transport across the ATM network, including the creation of the 48-byte payload cells that are passed to the ATM layer.

cell loss priority. Field in the ATM cell header that determines the probability of a cell being dropped if the network becomes congested. Cells with CLP = 0 are insured traffic, which is unlikely to be dropped. Cells with CLP = 1 are best-effort traffic, which might be dropped in congested conditions in order to free up resources to handle insured traffic.

It is generation and manipulation of stem cells with the objective of deriving cells of a particular organ or tissue to treat a disease.