摘要:
Method and system for tracking transient errors and controlling data traffic in a high speed packet switching network node. The traffic exits each node through a transmit queue per connection between end users. The queue is monitored at both queue level through a threshold based mechanism (53) and a control of time activity mechanism (55). If trouble is detected by any one of these mechanisms, the queue packet admission is momentarily barred. To that end, a Line Resources Manager (LRM) provides queue threshold and time-out references and keeps monitoring the node global buffering memory available. If required, the LRM may also report to Network Management facilities for possible rerouting of the traffic.
摘要:
A packet scheduling system for use in a switching node of a high speed packet switching network. Incoming packets are enqueued in connection queues. Each connection is classified as red (exceeding traffic profile) or green (within traffic profile). QOS priority is also identified for each connection. Packets are dequeued for transmission as a function of priority class and connection class. Higher priority class connections have priority over lower priority class connections. Within a given priority class of connections, green connections have priority over red connections. Round robin scheduling is used for packets from connections in the same priority and connection class. In addition, a dynamic priority coupling mechanism is provided to prevent red higher priority traffic from blocking green lower priority traffic.
摘要:
According to the invention, a data transmission system is provided with apparatus which enables the problem determination requests from any ports of the multiplex modems (18) to be processed. When a link event is detected on a port or when a solicited command is received from a host network management facility computer (10), the network control program (NCP) in the communication controller (16) checks with the associated link configuration data as to whether the involved port is port A. If is not port A, NCP looks for port A which has the same NCP correlation number as the involved port. Then, the LPDA message can be sent through port A and can reach the remote corresponding port A if necessary.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an efficient point-to-point and multi-points routing system and method for programmable data communication adapters in packet switching nodes of high speed networks. The general principles of this efficiency are the following:First, data packets are never copied, only packet pointers are copied for each destination: Space in Buffer Memory is saved, the number of instructions is significantly reduced improving the packet throughput (number of packets per seconds that the adapter is able to transmit). and the routing is independant of the packets length.Second, no overhead is generated by the multi-points mechanism in the real time procedures: the underrun/overrun problems on the ouputs are reduced and the efficiency of the adapter in term data throughput (bits per second) is significantly improved.Third, each output is processed independently by means of interrupts: lines are managed in real time and lines of different speed or protocol can be supported in parallel.Fourth, the release of the resources is entirely realized on a non priority mode.
摘要:
In a packet switched communications system an incoming real-time packet is imbedded after the next block of data of the non-real-time packet being transmitted. This object is accomplished by transmitting each packet along with at least a 1-byte trailer which is used to indicate the packet type, whether the current block of non real time data is preempted or whether the current block of non real time data is resumed.
摘要:
A method and system for optimizing data link occupation in a multipriority data traffic environment by using data multiplexing techniques over fixed or variable length data packets being asynchronously transmitted. The packets are split into segments including both a segment number and a packet number. The segments are dispatched, on a priority basis, over available links or virtual channels based on a global link availability control word indications, which control word is dynamically adjusted according to specific predefined conditions.
摘要:
A method and an apparatus to calculate in an intermediate node of a communication network, the new Frame Check Sequence (FCS) appended to a data bits message which has been modified in said intermediate network node. The invention is useful for high speed networks where the transit delay needs to be optimized in the network along with the computing resources in the intermediate network nodes in terms of computer cycles and memory size. The invention consists in calculating the difference between the FCS using the difference between the modified fields in the message and the distance in bits between the end of the modified field and the end of the message; the calculation consists in differentiating `short messages` in the data flow and to provide an optimized processing for the short messages, the processing for larger messages being based on this first optimized processing. The calculation of the modified FCS comprises operations on polynomials whose coefficients belong to the Galois's Field and whose degree is limited to the one of the polynomial generator of the corresponding CRC code. The calculations include also look up operations in tables limited in size. The choice between the possible implementations (full software, full hardware and mixed hardware and software with the usage of a Remult operator for the last two) will depend on the kind of the network (Frame Relay or other network) and the capacity of the intermediate network node.
摘要:
A multipurpose data communication network node for interconnecting both ATM and Variable Length (VL) input/output trunks with all combinations of node input versus output trunk connections. The network node includes ATM/VL Receive Adapters and ATM/VL Transmit Adapters, interconnected via a Switching device (44) operating on ATM like packets (i.e. ATM cells) only. The receive adapter includes means (41, 43) for deriving switchable cells from VL traffic possibly including ATM packets and provided over an input VL trunk and means (45, 46) for deriving switchable cells from ATM packets provided on input ATM trunk. The transmit adapter, includes means (47, 48) for reconstructing VL traffic to be fed onto an output VL trunk, and means (49, 50) for reconstructing ATM traffic to be fed onto an output ATM trunk; both means (47, 48) and (49, 50) being fed with switchable cells irrespective of the traffic origin, being it from VL or ATM trunks.
摘要:
A high performance data packet buffering method and a programmable data communication adapter for high speed packet transmission networks are disclosed. The line adapter includes programmable processing means, for receiving and transmitting data packets of fixed or variable length. This system is characterized in that it comprisesmeans for buffering (132) said data packets,means for identifying said buffering means and said data packets in said buffering means,means for queueing (FIG. 15) in storing means (131) said identifying means in a single instruction,means for dequeueing (FIG. 16) from said storing (131) means said identifying means in another single instruction,means for releasing said buffering means,Each instruction comprises up to three operations executed in parallel by said processing means:an arithmetical and logical (ALU) operation on said identifying means,memory operation on said storing means, anda sequence operation.
摘要:
Memory 60 contains a decision table which is a replica of the particular N-bit pattern to be detected. When a bit is received over line 12, a table lookup operation is performed to determine whether the entry at the address indicated by address counter 34 contains a bit that matches the received bit. If so, the content of the address counter is incremented by one and the device waits for another bit to be received over line 12. If the bit in the entry does not match the received bit, then, if the address indicated by the counter is zero, the count of the counter is maintained at zero and the device waits for another bit to be received; or, if the address is different from zero, the counter is reset to zero and the bit present on line 12 is again presented to the table in order, this time, to be compared with the bit in the entry at address zero. The pattern is detected when the address contained in the counter is equal to N and when the last bit in the pattern matches the bit with which it is compared.