Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for access to a transmission channel shared between several stations, characterised in that it includes iteratively: an operation (302) of estimating requirements of each of the stations for access to the transmission channel, an operation of determining groups (303 and 307) of stations taking into account the estimated access requirements of the stations, at least one of the groups of stations being said to be “collective”, an operation of allocating (308), to each of the groups, access rights each corresponding to an interval of time during which the stations which do not form part of the group are not authorised to access the transmission channel, and during which, if the group is collective, each station which it includes gains access to the transmission channel according to a contention method.
Abstract:
The device according to the invention shares a transmission medium between communication devices by allocation of authorizations to send on the medium, to each communication device. It has: a memory (65) for storing a table (64) representing communication devices (7) sharing the medium, each assigned a priority level (435, 438, 441, 444) for access to the medium; a device (94, 460, 462, 529, 543, 544, 545, 559A) for updating the access priority levels according to an estimated requirement for transmission on the medium by the communication devices under consideration.
Abstract:
The methods for transmission of sequences or frames of data provide for retransmitting, with a central device (21), frames of data which reach it, to destination devices, by transmission of downlink frames when the destination device is a peripheral device (24), each downlink frame having systematically a service message activating a protocol controlling access to the transmission medium shared by the central device (21) and the peripheral devices (24), and possibly a frame of data. The central device (21) and at least one peripheral device (24) form a system which is particularly well suited to a local area network, notably with a wireless transmission medium.
Abstract:
A method of transmitting binary data by a sender to a receiver over a transmission channel includes a formatting function integrated with a function of external coding of the binary data. The method applies in particular to the case where the sender uses a turbocoder with an interleaver of the “x to xe” type, and where the receiver uses a turbodecoder with an interleaver of the “x to xe” type.
Abstract:
A digital communication converter includes: a connection unit with a communication unit from which it receives or to which it delivers data frames; and a unit for sending/receiving over a transmission medium in order to transmit, by means of the medium, data frames which are delivered to it and/or to deliver information frames which it receives by means of the medium. A transmission control unit delivers, respectively to the connection unit and the sending/receiving unit, frames which have been delivered to it respectively by the sending/receiving unit and by means of the connection unit. A memory stores an address relating to the communication unit, this address being used for operating a protocol for controlling access to the transmission medium.
Abstract:
An optical apparatus for ranging and communication in free space comprises a rangefinder comprising a device for transmitting an optical signal to a target and a device for receiving the signals backscattered by the target. A system for optical communication in free space comprises a device for transmitting an optical signal to a remote optical receiving device. The transmitting device of the rangefinder and transmitting device of the communication system is a transmitting device common to the rangefinder and communication system and transmitting pulses of peak power greater than 50 W and shape factor less than 0.01 or a modulated continuous signal of peak power less than 10 W and shape factor equal to approximately 0.5 and the apparatus comprises a supervisor controlling the common transmitting device according to two modes, the pulse mode to perform the ranging function, or the modulated continuous mode to perform the optical communication function.
Abstract:
An optical pumping structure for lasers includes: an active medium in the form of a cylindrical rod with a circular cross-section, said rod being inserted at its ends into two rings made of a thermally conductive material; at least three stacks of pumping diode strips arranged in the form of a star around the rod; and a support temperature-regulated by a Peltier-effect module. The rings are in contact with the support, and a stack of diodes, called bottom stack, being situated between the rod and the support, and the structure comprises, for each other stack, a thermal conduction block forming a support for said stack, these blocks being mounted on the cooled support and not being in contact with one another or with the rings.
Abstract:
In a tunnel incoming end-point, for each data packet, the data packet coming from a source device belonging to a same sub-network as the tunnel incoming end-point is received. An effective channel from among the transmission channels is selected, as a function of a protocol associated with the payload data contained in the received packet, and of a piece of information on quality of transport linked to current conditions of transmission on the transmission channels, the piece of information depending on the protocol associated with the payload data contained in the received packet. The received packet is then encapsulated, according to a transport protocol associated with the effective channel, used to obtain a packet to be sent, and the packet to be sent in the tunnel are transmitted on the effective channel selected.
Abstract:
A method is proposed for the transmission of data packets in a tunnel interconnecting two sub-networks in order to form a general communications network, the tunnel being implemented between two tunnel end-points, each of the sub-networks comprising a distinct tunnel end-point among the tunnel end-points, the tunnel implementing at least two transmission channels, the method being implemented by one of the tunnel end-points, known as a tunnel incoming end-point. The method comprises the following steps for each data packet: reception of the data packet coming from a source device belonging to the same sub-network as the tunnel incoming end-point; selection of an effective channel from among the transmission channels, as a function of a protocol associated with the payload data contained in the received packet, and of a piece of information on quality of transport linked to current conditions of transmission in the transmission channels; encapsulation of the received packet, according to a transport protocol associated with the effective channel, used to obtain a packet to be sent; and transmission of the packet to be sent in the tunnel on the effective channel selected.
Abstract:
A method is proposed for balancing a latency of transmission of data content in a communications tree in a synchronous communications network, the communications tree comprising a root node on which a junction terminal is connected, the communications tree comprising leaf nodes on which terminals are connected, the root node and the leaf nodes being interconnected by intermediate nodes, the nodes being interconnected by links. The method comprises determining, for each node of the communications tree, a maximum value of latency associated with each path going from said node up to leaf nodes in a direction opposite to the junction terminal, and applying to each link at a node, the link running from the node in the direction opposite to the junction terminal, a supplement of latency balancing that corresponds to a difference between a maximum value of latency of each link and a maximum value.