公开(公告)号：US20050271053A1

公开(公告)日：2005-12-08

申请号：US10866399

申请日：2004-06-12

申请人： Hung Nuyen ,  Glen Kramer ,  Ryan Hirth

发明人： Hung Nuyen ,  Glen Kramer ,  Ryan Hirth

IPC分类号： H04L1/00 ,  H04L12/56

CPC分类号： H04L1/0083 ,  H04L1/0057 ,  H04L7/048

摘要： One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates construction of a forward error correction (FEC) coded Ethernet frame. During operation, the system receives a conventional Ethernet frame. The system then generates a number of FEC parity bits for the conventional Ethernet frame and inserts a start sequence before the conventional Ethernet frame. Next, the system appends an even- or odd-delimiter to the conventional Ethernet frame. The even-delimiter is used to separate the conventional Ethernet frame from the FEC parity bits if the last symbol of the conventional Ethernet frame is in an odd-numbered position. The odd-delimiter is used to separate the conventional Ethernet frame from the FEC parity bits if the last symbol of the conventional Ethernet frame is in an even-numbered position. The even-delimiter and the odd-delimiter are selected such that there is a sufficiently large Hamming distance between them, thereby reducing the probability of mistaking the even-delimiter for the odd-delimiter, or mistaking the odd-delimiter for the even-delimiter, if bit error occurs within the even- or odd-delimiter. The system also appends the number of FEC parity bits to the even- or odd-delimiter and appends a second delimiter to the FEC parity bits.

摘要翻译： 本发明的一个实施例提供了一种有助于构建前向纠错（FEC）编码以太网帧的系统。 在操作期间，系统接收传统的以太网帧。 然后，该系统为常规以太网帧生成多个FEC奇偶校验位，并在常规以太网帧之前插入起始序列。 接下来，系统将偶数或奇数分隔符附加到常规以太网帧。 如果常规以太网帧的最后一个符号处于奇数位置，则偶数分隔符用于将常规以太网帧与FEC奇偶校验位分离。 如果常规以太网帧的最后一个符号处于偶数位置，则奇数分隔符用于将常规以太网帧与FEC奇偶校验位分离。 偶数分隔符和奇数分隔符被选择为使得它们之间具有足够大的汉明距离，从而减少了奇数分隔符的偶数分隔符错误的概率，或者将奇数分隔符误认为偶分隔符 如果位错误发生在偶数或奇数分隔符中。 该系统还将FEC奇偶校验位的数量附加到偶数或奇数分隔符，并将第二定界符附加到FEC奇偶校验位。