245 results about "Resilient Packet Ring" patented technology

A system and method is disclosed for increasing the efficiency of a cellular communication network, reduce ongoing operating costs and increase revenue. According to one aspect, a method is disclosed for increasing the efficiency of a cellular communication network whereby network capacity in the radio access network (RAN) and baseband processing for wireless connections are dynamically adjusted to automatically provision sufficient bandwidth and baseband processing capacity in response to changes in the network. The method is further extended by implementing policy management which allows wireless carriers to develop and implement network based policies to automatically increase or decrease the amount of processing resources and network bandwidth required from any cell site, hub or mobile switching office. According to another aspect, network efficiency is enhanced by utilizing a novel cellular network infrastructure. RF signals from cell site antennas of various technology types are demodulated, digital bit information is extracted from the RF signals, processed, and groomed into Gigabit Ethernet/Resilient Packet Ring (GigE/RPR) or Ethernet over copper traffic flows using specific Quality of Service (QoS) priorities. The GigE/RPR traffic flows are routed to hub sites or mobile switching offices, at which point the packetized information is extracted and converted to RF signals that are equivalent to the signals that were received at the antenna. The RF signals are sent over coaxial cable to a network hub including a pool of Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs) (or Node Bs). The hub is coupled to one or more mobile switching offices via a second fiber optic ring.

Disclosed is a method for dynamically and losslessly adjusting bandwidth of an embedded Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) ring network, in which dynamic and lossless bandwidth adjustment for an RPR ring network embedded in a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)/Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) can be realized through adding a Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) system in the SDH/SONET processing layer. When it is required to increase ring network bandwidth, the bandwidth of the link section between sites on the SDH/SONET processing layer is first increased. Then the LCAS system in the SDH/SONET processing layer is started, and the actual bandwidth of the link on the SDH/SONET processing layer is increased losslessly with the LCAS system. Finally the bandwidth of the ring network on the RPR processing layer is increased. When it is required to decrease ring network bandwidth, the bandwidth of the ring network on the RPR processing layer is first decreased. Then the LCAS system in the SDH/SONET processing layer is started, and the actual bandwidth of the link on the SDH/SONET processing layer is decreased losslessly with the LCAS system. Finally the bandwidth of the link section between sites on the SDH/SONET processing layer is decreased. With the disclosed method, dynamic and lossless bandwidth adjustment for an embedded RPR ring network in SDH/SONET can be realized.

Methods and apparatus provide for allocating bandwidth in a resilient packet ring (RPR), including: determining a relationship between an arrival rate A(n) as a function of a fairness rate F_k(n) of a kth node of the RPR over time; computing an estimate of a slope M of the relationship A(F_k(n)) at time n; and computing a next fairness rate F_k(n+1) of the kth node as a function of the slope M at time n+1.

A Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) add/drop device to connect multiple rings, e.g. SDH/SONET rings, wavelength or fibers, to a single switch or router device is disclosed. The add/drop device according to the invention comprises two multiplexing framer devices and an Add/Drop Multiplexor-Media Access Control (ADM-MAC) device. Each of the multiplexing framer devices combine at least two RPR data signals having an input data rate into a single data stream having an output data rate being higher than the input data rate for transmission on a shared medium or vice versa. The ADM-MAC device interfaces the two multiplexing framer devices and the switch or router device.

A resilient packet network (RPR) device is connected to one or more rings to constitute an RPR network. The RPR device has a storage unit in which a correspondence between RPR device addresses, each indicating an RPR device connected to the one or more rings, and user device addresses, each indicating a user device accommodated in the RPR device, is stored. When the RPR device receives data addressed to a predetermined user device from a user device accommodated in the RPR device itself, if an RPR device address of an RPR device accommodating the predetermined user device is registered in the storage unit, an RPR header, in which the RPR device address is set as a destination RPR device address, is added to the data. The data with the RPR header is transmitted to the RPR network.

Systems, methods, devices and techniques can be used in networks including resilient packet ring networks and other types of ring topology networks to adjust the flow of data traffic to MAC clients associated with stations on the network. In one example, adjusted fairness rates and/or messages associated with a network communication protocol are used to reduce traffic destined for a particular station and/or a MAC client associated with that station. In another example, station MAC clients or other components implement virtual destination queues and transmit information associated with the rate at which they receive data. The information and queues are used to reduce traffic destined for a particular station and/or a MAC client associated with that station.

The invention relates to a three-degree-of-freedom parallel-connection mechanical wrist which comprises a base, a movable platform, a constrain driving branch chain used for connecting the base with the movable platform, and two driving branch chains which are same in structure, wherein the two ends of the three branch chains are symmetrically distributed in a regular triangle shape together with the base and the movable platform; the constrain driving branch chain consists of two revolute pairs and a driving sliding pair, so that a resilient packet ring (RPR)-type series-connection structural branch chain can be formed; the constrain driving branch chain is connected with the base and the movable platform by virtue of the revolute pairs; the two driving branch chains which are completely the same as each other respectively comprise a universal pair, a movable driving pair and a spherical hinge, so that an uninterrupted power supply (UPS)-type series-connection structural branch chain can be formed; and the two driving branch chains are respectively connected with the base by virtue of the universal pairs, and connected with the movable platform by virtue of the spherical hinges. The three-freedom parallel-connection mechanical wrist has the advantages of being strong in carrying capacity, good in stability, large in work space, high in flexibility, simple in structure, fewer in moving branch chains, hard to interfere, free from self micro-movement, high in accuracy, easy to control since a driver is close to the base, etc.

A method and corresponding apparatus allows multiple virtual switches in a physical switch to share one physical Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) in an RPR network. Modules in the multiple virtual switches add multicast information to traffic to direct the traffic along a common path to other physical switches on the ring, and modules in the virtual switches inspect traffic to determine whether the traffic is directed to the respective virtual switch. Multiple virtual RPR subrings are made available in a single physical ring, increasing usefulness of virtual switches formerly only able to support multiple tributary connections to other networks but not able to share a single ring network communications path. Sharing a single communications path increases overall network bandwidth, and at least one implementation allows for spatial reuse.

A method and corresponding apparatus allows unknown packet traffic, such as Ethernet traffic, to be carried on a Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) network without flooding the traffic on the RPR network. Modules in a station of the ring network compare a destination address in a packet traffic signal with known addresses and associate an identifier of a tunnel in the ring network with the packet traffic signal based on the comparison. The modules then associate with the packet traffic signal an identifier of a destination station in the ring network that corresponds to the identifier of the tunnel and forward the packet traffic signal to the destination station via the tunnel. By transmitting the packet traffic via tunnels instead of flooding the RPR network, spatial reuse may be implemented allowing the network to support a higher volume of traffic.

The invention relates to elastic group ring technology; particularly disclose the provision of a business protection method on the elastic group ring. The method comprises the following steps: according to the business needs, set users node the business pass through and host,emergency business node on the elastic group ring, create the business retransmission mapping table from users node message and host,emergency business node message and saved in the said users node; when the users node topology detect the failure of main service node, transmit the mapping table through all the saved business, read the service nodes information corresponding to the business, automatically switch the business from the main path corresponding to main service nodes to emergency path corresponding to the emergency service node. The invention achieves double or multi attaching protection of supporting business on the elastic group ring; shorten the automatic switching or restore time, improves its efficiency and reliability.

A failure protection between interconnected adjacent Resilient Packet Rings (RPRs) in a multiple RPR network is provided. Two paths, a regular message path and a protection path, are provided between two adjacent RPRs. The regular path is used for routing inter-ring messages when no failure has occurred on the path. Messages are rerouted through the protection path when a failure occurs on the regular path. Each of these paths has two RPR interface nodes (one for each RPR) that are connected to an interconnection device (a layer 2 bridge or a layer-3 router) through interconnection links. Procedures for detecting failures and generating notifications for message rerouting and fault reports are executed at the interconnection devices. The procedures use periodic keep alive messages for diagnosing network segment and interconnection device failures. The fault detection and message rerouting are accomplished in less than 50 ms.

A method for bridging traffic over a network includes receiving, at stations that are coupled to the network, forwarding information for remote devices that are coupled to the network via the stations. The forwarding information associates a remote address of each remote device with an address of one of the stations. Each station that receives the forwarding information stores the forwarding information in a forwarding database. The method also includes receiving traffic at a first station from a first remote device that is coupled to the first station. The traffic includes a destination address that is a remote address of a second remote device that is coupled to a second station of the network. Furthermore, the method includes identifying an address of the second station that is associated with the remote address of the second remote device in the forwarding database. The method also includes communicating the traffic directly to the second station using the identified address.

An RPR network system provides redundancy to the RPR function, at occurrence of failure in an RPR node device, to communicate with RPR node devices other than the failed device on an RPR ring and redundancy to an ethernet (registered trademark) port function to communicate a MAC frame via ports. The system includes a plurality of node devices connected on a link to each other in which two adjacent RPR node devices, i.e., first and second node devices, cooperatively operate as one virtual RPR node device. The first node device is set as a master device to communicate as the virtual RPR node device with other RPR node devices and the second node device is set as a slave device not to communicate as the virtual RPR node device with other RPR node devices, the master and slave devices being replaceable by each other. Either one of ports belonging respectively to the master and slave devices is capable of outputting data therefrom.

The method comprises: setting n (n larger than 2) RPR logical ports on each site in RPR ring network, which are used for respectively accessing n RPR logical rings being independently each other; balancing the traffic load on n RPR logical ports by making the link aggregation for n RPR logical ports on said each site, and making link switch when said any PRP logical port on said any site failures. The invention also reveals an apparatus used for creating RPR ring network and RPR sites, which comprises n RPR logical ports and a link aggregation unit.

A method for transmitting packets in an RPR includes: pre-setting an MAC table having an item which is a corresponding relationship between the node MAC address and the UE MAC address of each node; an RPR node receiving an insert packet, performing the MAC table lookup, deciding whether an item matching a destination MAC address of the insert packet exists; if there exists the item, converting the insert packet to an extended frame-formatted packet where the RPR destination node MAC address equals to the node MAC address of the item and sending the converted packet to the destination node, and performing the corresponding process; if there does not exist the item, converting the insert packet to an extended frame-formatted packet where the RPR destination node MAC address equals to a broadcast MAC address, broadcasting the converted packet on the whole network, and performing the corresponding process.

Systems, methods, devices and techniques can be used in networks including resilient packet ring networks and other types of ring topology networks to adjust the flow of data traffic to MAC clients associated with stations on the network. In one example, adjusted fairness rates and/or messages associated with a network communication protocol are used to reduce traffic destined for a particular station and/or a MAC client associated with that station. In another example, station MAC clients or other components implement virtual destination queues and transmit information associated with the rate at which they receive data. The information and queues are used to reduce traffic destined for a particular station and/or a MAC client associated with that station.

The invention discloses a method for displaying a business topology graphically based on a resilient packet ring (RPR). The RPR comprises two sub rings and a plurality of sites. The method comprises the following processes: A. information of the sites and interfaces obtained by business is inquired from a network management configuration; B. business information among internal interfaces of source/host sites is obtained by the inquiry to a control address of the business media accessing; C. information of middle sites among the source/host sites is added through the inquiry to information of the RPR network topology; D. a business topology graphic is created according to the business information of the source/host sites and the information of middle sites. The invention realizes the display of the RPR business topology graphically, which not only makes the inquiry process of the RPR business topology simple and convenient, but also makes the inquiry result of the RPR business topology clear and intuitive so as to ease largely the operation and maintenance of the business.

The present invention discloses an industrial data bus system, and comprises an industrial control center, a plurality of industrial field devices, and a plurality of industrial data bus devices. Each industrial data bus device has the function of elastic grouped ring, and comprises a plurality of business interfaces and two physical layer interfaces; wherein, the two physical layer interfaces of each industrial data bus device and the physical layer interfaces of other industrial data bus devices are respectively connected to form an elastic grouped ring network through two bidirectional buses; the industrial control center and the industrial field devices are connected with the business interfaces of the industrial data bus devices and are connected in the elastic grouped ring network through the physical layer interfaces. Simultaneously, the present invention also discloses a realization method of the industrial data bus device and the industrial data bus system. Therefore, the industrial data bus system satisfies the requirements of high interference resistance, reliability, real-time and multi-service performances of the industrial data communication, and improves the processing performance of the industrial data communication.