223 results about "Transport network" patented technology

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques including APIs, subscription services, and controllers to enable one or more fifth generation new radio (5G-NR) networks to share information. For example, a processor comprising one or more circuits can perform an API or subscription service to cause a device in a radio access network (RAN) to share its analytic data with a device in a transport network, and said device in said transport network can use said analytic data to adjust its network settings to improve performance.

The present application provides an endogenous-security network method and architecture, a medium, and a device. The method comprises: extracting forwarding characteristic information of normal service data flows; delivering the forwarding characteristic information of the normal service data flows to a transport network element, so as to form a forwarding table entry, a flow table, and a forwarding white list, wherein forwarding modes in a method for binding service data flow forwarding characteristics to forwarding table entries of transport network elements comprises: an authentication and authorization mode and an automatic learning mode; the transport network element performing packet forwarding according to the forwarding characteristic information of the normal service data flows; and discarding packets of abnormal service data flows, wherein packet identification is performed for forwarding operations on the basis of a whitelist automatically generated from configuration files of switches and routers. The present application solves the technical issue of an IP network having low inherent security protection capabilities due to the openness thereof and thus requiring the deployment of a large number of external security protection facilities. The issue results in poor effectiveness, high costs, and difficulty in establishing low-cost security protection capabilities, and ultimately makes the IP network easy to attack but difficult to defend.

Failure of an active CU-UP can be managed and mitigated. In connection with an active CU-UP serving a device using a service, CU-CP can employ a node manager component (NMC) that, in connection with failure of active CU-UP, can synchronize operational state parameters, including user plane protocol state parameters, associated with active CU-UP with standby CU-UP, and transition from active CU-UP to standby CU-UP to become an active CU-UP that can serve the device, to maintain service continuity for the device. NMC can inform RAN SMO to reconfigure transport network to switch downlink data and uplink data to standby CU-UP. Standby CU-UP can buffer downlink data and uplink data in buffer memory until the synchronization is completed, after which the formerly standby, now active, CU-UP can communicate buffered downlink data to DU for communication to the device, and buffered uplink data to UPF for communication to a desired destination.

The invention discloses a carbon emission accounting method for a container multimodal transport network, and the method comprises the steps: firstly, determining a modeling boundary and a data set of the container multimodal transport network, and enabling the modeling boundary to comprise a space range, a time range and a modeling object; the data set comprises node attributes, connection edge attributes and node traffic volume data of data required for constructing the multimodal transport network model; then, establishing a data-driven multimodal transport network model, identifying a network topology structure through the model, and estimating network side point traffic; and finally, calculating the network carbon emission by combining the energy consumption characteristics of different transportation modes and different combined transportation transfer modes. The scheme not only can serve carbon emission evaluation of a single hub transportation network to realize hub enterprise freight network carbon emission footprint tracking and driving factor identification, but also can serve carbon emission evaluation of a regional multimodal transportation network to realize regional freight network carbon emission management level evaluation and driving factor identification, so that the economic benefit is improved. And a theoretical tool is provided for measuring the carbon emission reduction development level of the multimodal transport network with different dimensions.

The invention discloses a bandwidth adjustment method, relates to the technical field of communication, and can realize dynamic adjustment of the bandwidth of a data bearing pipeline and meet the demand of dynamic change in a service scene. In the method, a negotiation mechanism for bandwidth adjustment is introduced between two communication devices in a small-granularity metro transport network (fgMTN), and the two communication devices negotiate bandwidth adjustment in a handshake communication mode and configure a new bandwidth for a data bearing pipeline at a specific time point at the same time, so that the bandwidth adjustment of the two communication devices is realized. And in the negotiation process, a new time slot allocation mode after the bandwidth of the data bearing pipeline is adjusted is specified, so that the data bearing pipeline can be normally used after the bandwidth is adjusted, the dynamic adjustment of the bandwidth of the data bearing pipeline is realized, and the requirement of dynamic change in a service scene is met.

The present disclosure relates to a method of a transport network node (13a) of performing load balancing in a transport network (10), and a transport network node (13a) performing the method. In an aspect, a method of a transport network node (13a) of performing load balancing in a transport network (10) is provided. The method comprises receiving (S101) a data traffic flow to be transmitted over the transport network (10) from a source radio access network, RAN, node (11a) to a destination RAN node (12a) connecting to the transport network (10), identifying (S102) a plurality of data traffic sub-flows forming the data traffic flow from the source RAN node (11a) to the destination RAN node (12a), determining (S103) one or more routing paths via which the identified data traffic sub-flows can be transmitted to a next-hop node(13b, 13g) in the transport network (10) and if there are multiple possible routing paths, alternating (S104) the transmission of identified data traffic sub-flows from the data traffic flow via determined different routing paths to attain load balancing in the transport network (10).

The invention discloses a power-traffic network charging load prediction method and system, and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: constructing an electric vehicle basic model, a road network basic model, a charging station basic model and a power distribution network basic model; generating dynamic traffic flow data through a generative adversarial network based on the basic model and the historical traffic data; constructing a traffic travel demand matrix based on a start-end point analysis method, and simulating the whole process of charging decision, queuing waiting and charging service of the electric vehicle in the charging station by using a queuing theory algorithm in combination with the dynamic traffic flow data and the basic model; constructing a space-time diagram attention network model, taking charging demand simulation data, a road network basic model and a charging station basic model as input, obtaining a space-time coupling relationship between a traffic network state and a charging demand through a multi-head diagram attention mechanism, and predicting to obtain space-time distribution of an electric vehicle charging load in a certain period of time in the future. And accurate prediction of the time-space part of the charging load of the electric vehicle is realized.

The present application relates to the technical field of communications. Disclosed is a bandwidth adjustment method, which can realize the dynamic adjustment of a data-bearing pipeline bandwidth and meet the dynamic change requirements of service scenarios. In the method, a negotiation mechanism for bandwidth adjustment is introduced between two communication apparatuses in a fine granularity metro transport network (fgMTN), the two communication apparatuses negotiate a bandwidth adjustment by means of handshake communication and simultaneously configure a new bandwidth for a data-bearing pipeline at a specific time point, and a new time slot allocation method after the bandwidth of the data-bearing pipeline is adjusted is designated during negotiation, thus ensuring that the data-bearing pipeline can be normally used after the bandwidth thereof is adjusted, and thereby realizing the dynamic adjustment of a data-bearing pipeline bandwidth and meeting the dynamic change requirements of service scenarios.

Computer-implemented methods optimising routes in a transport network for a geographical region are disclosed. Methods comprise obtaining an analysis of the geographical region; generating probabilistic predictions, checking whether at least a subset of the generated probabilistic predictions have previously been solved by a trained machine learning model; based on at least a first subset of the generated probabilistic predictions having previously been solved, retrieving the trained machine learning model previously used to solve the at least a first subset of the generated probabilistic predictions and executing the trained machine learning model to determine a first plurality of suggested routes for the transport network; based on at least a second subset of the generated probabilistic predictions not having previously been solved, training a new machine learning model to solve the at least a second subset of generated probabilistic predictions to determine a second plurality of suggested routes for the transport network.

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques including APIs, subscription services, and controllers to enable one or more fifth generation new radio (5G-NR) networks to share information. For example, a processor comprising one or more circuits can perform an API or subscription service to cause a device in a radio access network (RAN) to share its analytic data with a device in a transport network, and said device in said transport network can use said analytic data to adjust its network settings to improve performance.

Techniques are disclosed for disseminating network service-specific mapping information across administrative domains. In one example, a network device receives an indication of a route target and one or more underlay tunnels configured to support a service route. The service route is configured to transport network traffic associated with a first network service of a plurality of network services. The network device defines, based on the indication, a first transport class of a plurality of transport classes. The network device receives a service route for the first network service and stores a correspondence between the service route and the first transport class. The network device receives network traffic associated with the first network service and forwards, based on the correspondence, the network traffic along the underlay tunnels specified by the first transport class.

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques including APIs, subscription services, and controllers to enable one or more fifth generation new radio (5G-NR) networks to share information. For example, a processor comprising one or more circuits can perform an API or subscription service to cause a device in a radio access network (RAN) to share its analytic data with a device in a transport network, and said device in said transport network can use said analytic data to adjust its network settings to improve performance.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses, and computer readable medium for macro-diversity transmission in a subnetwork. The method comprises: in response to receiving a first header identification associated with a Time Sensitive Communication (TSC) stream, a first device transmits, to a configuration entity of a transport network, a first stream requirement comprising two or more second identifications. Each of the two or more second identifications is associated with a corresponding second device configured for an interface end station in a first protocol plane. The first device receives communication configuration information indicating second header information from the configuration entity. Then, the first device transmits, to a second device operating as a source interface end station, the first header identification and third header information at least indicating the second header information. The second device is associated with a second identification of the two or more second identifications.

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent production control, in particular to a port cargo transportation method based on transportation route planning, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a cargo transportation demand of a port; carrying out preliminary planning of a transportation route based on a port and a cargo transportation destination; loading and unloading characteristics of each port are further considered, and a transport network topological graph is constructed; carrying out optimal configuration through edge computing nodes; the transportation route is dynamically adjusted in combination with real-time weather and ocean conditions, the technical problems that fine optimization cannot be carried out in port cargo transportation planning only through static data analysis, the phenomenon of resource shortage or idling often occurs, and the overall operation efficiency is affected are solved, the purposes of balancing carbon emission minimization and resource utilization rate maximization are achieved, and the economic benefit is improved. The technical effects that berth allocation and operation time windows are optimized, efficient operation of berths and loading and unloading equipment is ensured, waiting time and idle resources are reduced, and the resource utilization efficiency is improved are achieved.

This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for enabling an end-to-end controller of a network to offload decisions about placement of network slices to the transport controller. By doing so, the transport controller can intelligently determine optimal placement based on intent (e.g., external intent of the end-to-end controller and internal intent of the transport controller), internal transport network analytics functions, SLO / SLE constraints, real-time telemetry data, and more to provide dynamic and optimal placement of network slices. That is the described techniques dynamically utilize information from within the transport domain to define the placement of network slices. Thus, placements are more accurate, thereby reducing latency and improving functioning of the network, as well as providing an improved user experience by meeting SLO / SLE constraints.

Disclosed herein are network elements for use in a transport network and methods of using the same. The network elements may comprise an embedded device having a processor, a communication device in communication with the processor, a first memory, a second memory, and a third memory. The third memory may store a hybrid boot sequence comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by the processor of the embedded device cause the embedded device to: determine whether a first kernel image is stored on the first memory; responsive to the determination that the first kernel image is not stored on the first memory, obtain a second kernel image stored on a remote network element; store at least one of the first kernel image and the second kernel image on the second memory as a primary kernel image; and boot the primary kernel image stored on the second memory.

Various aspects of this disclosure generally relate to wireless communications. In some aspects, a central entity in an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network can: determine, at least in part, based on at least one of the following, that triggering conditions for updating transport network layer information of IAB nodes in the IAB network are met: a change in a donor distributed unit associated with an IAB node, a change in a central entity associated with an IAB node, or the establishment, release, or modification of a route including an IAB node; and provide updated transport network layer information to the IAB nodes, at least in part based on the satisfaction of the triggering conditions. Many other aspects are described.

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to user plane traffic mapping. In an aspect, a first network device establishes a protocol data unit (PDU) session using a first user plane function (UPF) serving a terminal device connected with the first network device. The first network device determines a rule to be used for traffic detection and mapping at a second UPF used for wireless access backhauling for the first network device, based on transport network layer (TNL) information. In this way, the user plane traffic mapping, especially traffic mapping between a QoS flow of a terminal device and a QoS flow of mobile termination of a relay node can be improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of composite cables for rail transit, and provides a flexible composite cable for rail transit and a preparation method thereof.The preparation method comprises the steps that a power transmission unit, a signal transmission unit and PBO fiber bundles are constructed into a three-dimensional transmission network framework which is in a hollow tube shape as a whole through three-dimensional weaving; a plurality of upgrading channel pipes are arranged on the inner side of the three-dimensional transmission network framework, and the outer side of the three-dimensional transmission network framework is sequentially coated with a shielding layer and an outer protection layer from inside to outside. According to the flexible composite cable for the rail transit and the preparation method of the flexible composite cable, power transmission and signal transmission can be integrated, meanwhile, the overall anti-pressure capability, flexibility and anti-torsion stability are improved, the integrity of electrical connection and optical paths is effectively protected, the cost and upgrading complexity of the whole life cycle are remarkably reduced, and the service life of the cable is prolonged. And flexibility is provided for long-term technical evolution of a rail transit system, and reliable electromagnetic interference protection capability is maintained.

A method is provided for operating a transport network, for example a rail freight network including receiving a state report (or “snapshot”) of the transport network including positions of the vehicles and states of the network control apparatuses via the data communications network. A plurality of computer simulations of the transport network are run with reference to the state report. The computer simulations generate a number of feasible timetables and subsequently one of them is selected as an optimal feasible timetable, being a timetable that best satisfies demands for load at terminals of the network. Each of the plurality of computer simulations involves moving vehicle agents corresponding to the vehicles over a graph of the transport network according to a vehicle movement procedure that is configured to avoid gridlocking. The computer simulations are also run according to an optimal destination selection method which is configured to optimise vehicle agent journeys to meet the demand for the loads at locations in the transport network. Each of the plurality of computer simulations is made with varied weightings in respect of optimisation factors in the optimal destination selection method to thereby vary each of the number of feasible timetables. The method includes identifying an optimal timetable from the number of feasible timetables and issuing controls to the vehicles and network control apparatus via the data communications network to control movement of the vehicles across the transport network in accordance with the optimal timetable.

A request for transport services that identifies a rider, an origin, and a destination is received from a client device. Eligibility of the request to be serviced by a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is determined based on the origin and the destination. The client device is sent an itinerary for servicing the transport request including a leg serviced by the VTOL aircraft. Confirmation is received that the rider has boarded the VTOL aircraft and determination made as to whether the VTOL aircraft should wait for additional riders. Instruction are sent to the VTOL aircraft to take-off if one or more conditions are met.

Handling resets comprises communicating transport packets between a transport network and data processing circuitry, with at least a portion of the data processing circuitry operating in a given reset

The present application provides a method and device for configuring a link group. The method includes: a first device obtains first status information of M links between a source device and a receiving device, where the first status information is used to indicate the status of the differential delay between any two of the M links, and any one of the links is a FlexE or FlexO physical connection link, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 2; the first device obtains first capability information of the receiving device, where the first capability information is used to indicate the first capability of the receiving device to perform differential delay compensation on the M links; the first device divides N links among the M links into a first link group according to the first status information and the first capability information, where N is an integer less than or equal to M and greater than or equal to 2; the first device sends first configuration information to a second device, including information for indicating the first link group. The method provided by the present application can improve the availability and robustness of links in a transport network.

A method for configuring a first autonomous system in a transit network is described. The method includes obtaining information according to which the traffic received by an ingress router of the first autonomous system is saturated, and determining a prefix of a destination subnet of a third autonomous system downstream of the first autonomous system. The method also includes extending the path associated with the prefix on at least one target router of the first autonomous system, the prefix and the at least one target router being determined by optimizing an objective function so that the path associated with the prefix must be extended for all the ingress routers of the first autonomous system which are geographically closer to the saturated router than the target router.

Transmitters, receivers, transceivers, transport networks, and methods of use are described herein, including a transmitter comprising a client-side input, transmitter circuitry, and antennas. The client-side input receives baseband signals having client data encoded therein. The transmitter circuitry receives the baseband signals from the client-side input and generates antenna feed signals based on the baseband signals. The antennas receive the antenna feed signals from the transmitter circuitry, generate radiated signals based on the antenna feed signals, and couple the radiated signals into hollow waveguides. The radiated signals are radiated electromagnetic waves configured for coherent detection and having one or more frequencies in a range between 300 Gigahertz (GHz) and 10 Terahertz (THz). The antennas include one of a helical antenna, a waveguide probe antenna, a tapered antenna, a patch antenna, and a slot antenna.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of identifying a public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier associated with a communications network; determining a tracking area code (TAC) range of a plurality of cell sites in a radio access network (RAN) associated with the PLMN identifier; identifying transport network circuits of a transport network connecting the plurality of cell sites with a core network of the communications network; and displaying a user interface comprising a graphical representation of the core network, the transport network and the RAN. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A system for purchasing travel documents and for paying tolls and / or parking fees is based on the use of Blockchain technology. It comprises a VTS Server (10), a Blockchain Server Node (15) synchronized with a Blockchain network (100) and a plurality of Smartphone user devices (20(i)). An application (APP(i), APPAuto(i)) for managing purchases towards at least one Transport company or Operator (40(j), 50(k)) is present on every Smartphone user device (20(i)). The Smartphone user device (20(i)) is provided with a first public address (addAPP(i), addAPPAuto(i)) and said Transport company or Operator (40(j), 50(k)) is provided with a second public address (add40(j), addAPPAuto(k)). The Blockchain Server Node (15) is connected to the Blockchain (100) by means of a connection (30) in Peer to Peer mode, P2P, and locally saves and stores (15w) a copy (BC) of the Blockchain (100), the first public addresses (addAPP(i), addAPPAuto(i)) associated with each user and the private keys (KEYpr(i)) of the users. The VTS Server (10) creates the public addresses (addAPP(i), addAPPAuto(i)) for each application (APP(i), APPAuto(i))) associated with a user, calculates the current balance of the user of the Smartphone (20(i)) and, in the event of sufficient value, creates and delivers, to the application (APP(i), APPAuto(i)), a pass or Token which allows the use of the Transport network and which generates a transaction (TE) on the Blockchain (100), in which the VTS Server (10) authorizes the transaction by means of the user private key (KEYpr(i)) saved (15w) in the Blockchain Server Node (15). The transaction (TE) transfers the content, or part of it, from a first wallet (20w(i)) belonging to the Smartphone user (20(i)) and associated with a first public address (addAPP(i), addAPPAuto(i))) to a second wallet (40w(j)) belonging to the Transport company or Operator (40(j), 50(k)) and associated with a second public address (add40(j), add50(k)).

Embodiments of present disclosure disclose internet protocol (IP) assignment and secure traffic for network elements deployed over untrusted transport network. In an embodiment, base station (101) transmits an Open Cloud (O-cloud) available registration request to an operator network system (103) through First Secure Tunnel (FST) (133) established between operator network system (103) and base station (101). The FST is terminated upon receiving network information related to each of plurality of O-cloud entities of O-cloud through FST from operator network system. Thereafter, base station (101) transmits second authentication request to operator network system for establishing Second Secure Tunnel (SST) (135) between operator network system and base station. Finally, base station establishes SST between operator network system and base station when network information is authenticated. The established SST allows bi-directional traffic related to each of plurality of O-cloud entities. The present disclosure helps in handling the traffic at the operator network system.

A kind of wisdom road full-time space instant simulation system, including data acquisition subsystem, data transmission subsystem, edge computing subsystem, interface display subsystem, situation expansion subsystem;Data acquisition subsystem relies on the data provided by road camera, unmanned aerial vehicle fleet and large map database, data transmission subsystem establishes the two-dimensional transmission network of ground-ground, ground-air, edge computing subsystem provides real-time data processing, calculation and analysis services for road conditions by serving the built-in computer processor in road camera, unmanned aerial vehicle fleet of road, interface display subsystem provides simulation interface, can visually show road real-time situation, situation expansion subsystem provides hierarchical, intelligent interface selection for interface display subsystem.The beneficial effects of the present application are: real-time analysis of road information, through the deployment of road-air computing power, provide full-time space, intelligent, visual wisdom road service.

The application provides an optimization method, system and equipment for a public and railway combined transport delivery network under external set internal matching, and belongs to the technical field of logistics distribution network optimization. The method is aimed at the problem that the traditional optimization algorithm in the prior art is prone to local optimization and difficult to obtain a globally satisfactory solution, and uses a deep learning assisted genetic algorithm to solve a pre-constructed public and railway combined transport network model. The algorithm performs real-time sensing on the population evolution state through a deep Q network, dynamically and intelligently selects a genetic operation strategy, and combines an experience playback mechanism to perform self-training and parameter updating, and finally outputs an optimal two-stage public and railway combined transport hub site selection and network freight flow distribution scheme. The application uses the above optimization method, system and equipment for a public and railway combined transport delivery network under external set internal matching, effectively improves the global search capability and adaptive level of the algorithm, and can obtain a public and railway combined transport network optimization scheme which is lower in cost, better in layout, and stable and reliable.