Martin Huck

Title: Martin Huck: Innovator in Transport Network Restoration

Introduction

Martin Huck is a notable inventor based in Möglingen, Germany. He has made significant contributions to the field of transport networks, holding a total of seven patents. His innovative methods focus on enhancing the reliability and efficiency of transport networks.

Latest Patents

One of Huck's latest patents is a transport network restoration method supporting extra traffic. This method involves relaying a restoration request between adjacent network elements to restore a failed working path in a transport network. The path is set up hop by hop over spare resources by establishing local cross-connections that conform to the request according to routing information stored within the network elements. During normal operations, a low priority path for extra traffic is allowed on the spare resources and can be pre-empted in case of a failure. The restoration request is forwarded using the old signal structure of the extra traffic path, and only after receiving confirmation from the peering node is the I/O port reconfigured to the new signal structure.

Another significant patent by Huck is a transport network restoration method that multiplexes transmission signals from traffic streams representing paths. Each path is identified with a path tag, and forwarding information is provided in each network element. When a path fails, the source network element crossconnects the affected traffic stream to an alternate output port. Subsequent network elements receiving this unexpected traffic stream check the received path tag, determine an appropriate output port based on