Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ring-type network system for setting a path capable of restraining the use of a preliminary resource for ring protection. SOLUTION: Nodes for constituting a ring-type network system of the form, where a plurality of physical rings belonging to different rings exist among opposite nodes, each comprise a memory part which stores link correspondence information, indicating a correspondence relation between the port of a physical link and the port of a virtual link set logically to at least one physical link; ring constitution information indicating a pair relation of the ports of the physical links constituting different rings; number information of the ports at opposite ends of the physical link; and number information of the ports at opposite ends of the virtual link; and a processing part for setting a path passing the same ring, on the basis of passage route information in a message and memory information stored in the memory part, when information correlating one virtual link to the plurality of the physical links belonging to the different rings is transmitted to other node, and a signalling message for path setting is received. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To exactly perform the addition and deletion of a second communication control means, in a line-housing apparatus which holds the second communication control means connected to a second communications system that uses a first communications system as a medium. SOLUTION: A plurality of optical interfaces 40 connected to the first communications system such as SONET and a plurality of stations 30 connected to the second communications system of RPR networks 70 that uses this SONET as a transmission medium are mounted in a shelf 10, and a station 30 and an optical interface 40 are connected via a path control portion 50. The station 30, an optical interface 40 and the path control portion 50 are generalized and controlled by an intelligent card 20, and the intelligent card 20 performs changes in the connection path in the path control portion 50, in the addition/deletion of the station 30. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technology for more speedily performing optimal QoS control corresponding to an occurring fault. SOLUTION: Node arranging order extraction units 13b, 23b of token controllers 13, 23 extract addresses of nodes stored in a token packet and send them to a control unit 31. The control unit 31 analyzes the order of arranging the addresses and detects a change in network configuration caused by occurrence of a fault. A QoS table selection unit 42 uses the result to select a QoS table to be used for QoS control out of QoS tables stored in a QoS table unit 43. A QoS table reference unit 44 performs QoS control using the selected QoS table. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To specify a device related to a connection failure when no signal abnormal condition is detected even though initialization processing is stopped in an arbitration loop for rapidly recovering the loop into a normal condition. SOLUTION: In this loop condition monitoring device 20 monitoring conditions of an arbitration loop having HDD 11-1 to 11-m, servers 12-1 to 12-n, and a switch device 10 controlling connection between the HDD 11-1 to 11-m and the servers 12-1 to 12-n, a loop condition data reading part 203 reads loop condition data from the switch device 10, an initialization failure detection part 2041 detects occurrence of an initialization failure as a connection failure in initialization of the arbitration loop from the loop condition detection data, and a failure device specification part 2042 specifies a device related to the initialization failure from primitive detection data or frame number data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a loop of a virtual network crossing at least two rings in the case that a segment shared between the rings has a failure. SOLUTION: A node connected to the shared segment and rings detects the failure of the segment which can not transmit a data traffic and prevents the transmission of the data traffic among all rings except the node and one ring responding to the detection of the failure. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
A data communication system, in which, even when communication between a child station and a parent station is broken by the child station not receiving polling from the parent station caused by a disconnection, data from child stations following the child station whose communication was broken can be collected. In a data communication system, plural stations having a pair of two-directional external interfaces (15,16) are connected in series, and a parent station collects data from each of the child stations by polling. When one of the child stations has not received the polling for a predetermined period, that child station stays as a child station by using a first external interface (15), a first transmitter & receiver section (10), and a child-station processing section (13), and also works as a second parent station that collects data from following child stations by applying the polling to following child stations, by using a second external interface (16), a second transmitter and receiver section (11), and a parent-station processing section (14).