Abstract:
A communication system comprising first and second primary stations for performing synchronous wireless communication with a secondary station via a first network, and a control station connected to the first and second primary stations via a second network, wherein the control station transmits time information for synchronizing the time of the first and second primary stations to the first and second primary stations, one of the first and second primary stations adjusts the time using the time information from the control station, and the other of the first and second primary stations adjusts the time using notification information, which is information for providing notification of the time information transmitted from the first or second primary station via the first network.
Abstract:
A communications network delay variation smoothing method, an apparatus, and a system are disclosed. The method includes: clearing, by a receiving module, a forward delay threshold and a reverse delay threshold when an initialization time starts; and performing the following operation for each service flow fragment within the initialization time: when determining that a maximum value between a real-time forward delay value corresponding to a current service flow fragment and a reverse delay threshold corresponding to the current service flow fragment is greater than a current value of the forward delay threshold, replacing the current value of the forward delay threshold with the maximum value. In this way, after the initialization ends, a delay threshold after the initialization ends is determined and is applied to delay compensation, thereby significantly reducing a bi-directional asymmetric delay variation, and avoiding a problem of abnormal user communication that is caused when the variation exceeds a limit.
Abstract:
A method distributes clock synchronization information within an optical communications network having a plurality of network elements. The method receives an ingress clock synchronization message at a first network element. The ingress clock synchronization message includes a clock synchronization message identifier and a correction field. The clock synchronization message identifier is inserted into an optical channel frame overhead and the ingress clock synchronization message is inserted into an optical channel frame payload. The optical channel frame overhead and the optical channel frame payload are transmitted across the first network element, across the network to a second network element, and across the second network element. A transit time of the clock synchronization message identifier is determined across each of the network elements. At the second network element, the correction field of the ingress clock synchronization message is updated with the transit times to form an egress clock synchronization message.
Abstract:
It is proposed a network node (2) of a telecommunications network, the network node (2) comprising a time adjustment unit (4) for time synchronization between network nodes (2) of the telecommunications network. The time adjustment unit (4) is configured to generate an egress time synchronization signal (6). A switch network (8) is configured to feed back the egress time synchronization signal (6) across a signal path (10) of the network node (2. A counter unit (12) is configured to determine a signal delay (14) occurring on the signal path (10). The time adjustment unit (4) is configured to determine a timestamp (16) in dependence of the signal delay (14).
Abstract:
A synchronization method and system for traversing a third-party synchronous network, includes configuring a 1588 Transparent Clock (TC) traversing mode at an ingress edge device and an egress edge device of the third-party synchronous network, and synchronizing between the ingress edge device and the egress edge device; and transparently transmitting a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) message which needs to traverse the third-party synchronous network in the third-party synchronous network, and when the transparently transmitted PTP message reaches the egress edge device, correcting a correctionField of the PTP message according to a delay in the network, and transmitting the PTP message from the egress edge device to the next level device. The above technical scheme solves the 1588 TC problem of traversing the third-party synchronous network, synchronization only needs to be implemented at the edge devices of the third-party network, the routing protocol does not need to be extended, an intermediate network device does not need to support the TC either, thereby greatly reducing the complexity of implementation and operational costs.
Abstract:
A network (1) comprising a latency monitoring point (2) adapted to calculate a forward latency of a path between a master node (3) and a slave node (4) on the basis of time stamps which are exchanged periodically between said master node (3) and said slave node (4) by a time alignment protocol used in said network.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are described including defining a neighbor set for each access point, selecting a first clock in a first access point, the selected clock having a highest accuracy as a grand master clock, advising neighboring access points to synchronize with the selected grand master clock and transmitting a message to schedule a quiet period based on the grand master clock. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving a beacon message, inspecting clock descriptors in the beacon message, selecting a best master clock responsive to the inspection and transmitting a message to schedule a quiet period based on the selected best master clock.