摘要:
A method of managing a voice conference in which a plurality of users are connected to a first network entity, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a request to add a new user to a voice conference at a control node; the control node analysing a conference load on the first network entity and if the conference load exceeds a threshold, selecting another network entity and transmitting the request to said another network entity; receiving the request from the control node at the another network entity, and determining whether the another network entity is currently included in the voice conference; and if the another network entity is not currently included in the voice conference, creating a bridging connection between the another network entity and the first network entity, connecting the new user to the another network entity, and adding the new user to the voice conference via said bridging connection.
摘要:
A method and corresponding device for determining a data connection profile for a data connection (15) between one of a plurality of end-user devices (14, 16, 18) and an aggregation transceiver device (24, 34), the data connection belonging to one of a plurality of predetermined categories, each category being associated with one of a plurality of service providing entities (62, 64, 66), the method comprising receiving performance data indicative of the performance of a data connection; receiving an entity identifier indicative of one of said plurality of service providing entities, and determining in dependence thereon the category to which the data connection belongs; and determining a data connection profile for the data connection in dependence on the performance data and on the category so-determined, the data connection profile specifying a set of values for one or more parameters associated with the data connection.
摘要:
The application relates priority services such as the Government Emergency Telecommunication Service GETS or the Wireless Priority Service WPS which provide priority service to National Security/Emergency Preparedness personnel. In times of emergency or crisis or because of natural or other catastrophes, telecommunication networks can become congested. Throttling mechanisms such as call gapping are employed to limit the number of priority call/session requests accepted from a give source and/or handled by a given network node. However, present mechanisms rely on historical traffic levels rather than adapting to actual traffic level. This problem is solved in that parameters of the call gapping function are dynamically regulated. The method includes: monitoring a rate at which priority service requests are received at a node of the network; comparing the rate to a threshold; disabling a gapping function for priority service traffic when the rate is less than the threshold; enabling the gapping function for priority service traffic when the rate is not less than the threshold, and, dynamically regulating a parameter of the gapping function when the gapping function is enabled.
摘要:
In one embodiment, whether packet loss of link layer packets at a receiver (200) has exceeded a lost threshold is detected. Feedback is sent to a transmitter (100) indicating that a header compressor (104), for compressing higher layer packets at the transmitter, should send a less compressed header if the packet loss of the link layer packets has exceeded the lost threshold. The higher layer packets are at a higher layer than the link layer and are formed by the link layer packets. The present invention also relates to a method of establishing a communication session in a hierarchical communication system between a source party and at least one destination party. Information for the session is stored if establishing the session is blocked at a node as a result of a blocking condition at the blocking node. Establishment of the session is initiated based on the information if the blocking condition no longer exists.
摘要:
Methods and systems for interconnecting SS7 signaling points (300, 302, 304) include connecting an edge device (306) to a plurality of SS7 service switching points using fixed-bandwidth SS7 links. The edge device is connected to an SS7/IP gateway (314) using a variable-bandwidth signaling link. The edge device multiplexes SS7 messages received over the fixed-bandwidth signaling links and transmits the message over the variable-bandwidth signaling link.