Hitachi, Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering, Ltd.

Hitachi Cable, Inc.

Hitachi Vlsi Engineering Corp.

Link Laboratory Inc.

Eiichi Amada

Hiroshi Kuwahara

Yoshito Sakurai

Shinobu Gohara

Takao Kato

Kenichi Ohtsuki

Taihei Suzuki

Yoshihiro Takiyasu

Shirou Tanabe

Hidehiko Jusa

Tomoaki Ishifuji

Hirotoshi Shirasu

Shuichi Adachi

Genichi Ishii

Toshiro Suzuki

Takashi Morita

Naoya Kobayashi

Mitsuhiro Yamaga

Kunio Hiyama

Takahiko Kozaki

Takanori Miyamoto

Makoto Ohnishi

Matsuaki Terada

Toshiki P Tanaka

Yukiji Yamauchi

Kenichi Asano

Yuichi Morikawa

Satoshi Tanaka

Yasushi Takahashi

Tohru Kazawa

Masaru Kokubo

Noboru Endo

Yoshitaka Takasaki

Osamu Takada

Kazuo Saito

Kazuo Yamakido

Kimiaki Ando

Sadao Mizokawa

Tatsuya Kameyama

Hiroshi Takatori

Shigeo Nishita

Kazunori Nakamura

Hisayuki Maruyama

Seiki Mizutani

Ichiro Masse

Hiroshi Mabuchi

Mineo Ogino

Haruyuki Nakayama

Satoru Hirayama

Tatsuhito Iiyama

Yasuhiko Hatekeyama

Masanori Miyata

Masachika Miyata

Hirohiko Sato

Takafumi Gondou

A packet switching system including at least one switching node or local unit each including a label conversion unit for accommodating a plurality of packet circuits and performing conversion into output port information of a switch based on a logic channel on a packet circuit, a self-routing switch for performing switching based on the output port information, and a control unit for terminating a control packet and performing the call processing function. A switching node or tandem unit is provided including at least one self-routing switch for interconnecting the local units. A device is provided for setting, between the tandem unit and a destination-side local unit, the same logic channel as that between an originating-side local unit operative for information transfer and the tandem unit in respect of a call destined for a local unit other than this local unit and a device.

Packet switching system having self-routing switches

A switching system for integratedly switching voice, data, image information and the like. The switching system comprises a plurality of front-end modules each adapted to perform a switching processing in association with a subscriber line or a trunk line, and a single or a plurality of central modules for interconnecting the plurality of front-end modules in star-type fashion and switching information prevailing between the front-end modules, in unit of block accommodating the information and a header added thereto to contain connection control information and in accordance with the contents of the header. The front-end modules are connected to the central module via inter-module highways each having frames occurring at a predetrmined period and time slots contained in each frame to carry blocks.

Distributed type switching system

In a packet switching system-made up of a single or a plurality of switching nodes or local units each including a label conversion unit for accommodating a plurality of packet circuits and performing conversion into output port information of a switch on the basis of a logic channel on a packet circuit, a self-routing switch for performing switching on the basis of the output port information, and a control unit for terminating a control packet and performing the call processing function, and a switching node or tandem unit including a single or a plurality of self-routing switches for interconnecting the local units, there are provided a device for setting, between the tandem unit and a destination-side local unit, the same logic channel as that between an originating, side local unit operative for information transfer and the tandem unit in respect of a call destined for a local unit other than this local unit and a device, operable in the originating-side local unit for information transfer, for inserting output port information of the self-routing switch inside the tandem unit into a packet destined for the local unit other than this local unit, whereby in the tandem unit, setting of logic channel conversion information is not required to be done and even when any control signal packet from the originating side local unit arrives at the tandem unit, the packet is transferred to the destination side local unit without undergoing termination of packet and concomitant call processing control.

Packet switching system having-having self-routing switches

A switching system for integratedly switching voice, data, image information and the like. The switching system comprises a plurality of front-end modules each adapted to perform a switching processing in association with a subscriber line or a trunk line, and a single or a plurality of central modules for interconnecting the plurality of front-end modules in star-type fashion and switching information prevailing between the front-end modules, in unit of block accommodating the information and a header added thereto to contain connection control information and in accordance with the contents of the header. The front-end modules are connected to the central module via inter-module highways each having frames occurring at a predetermined period and time slots contained in each frame to carry blocks.

In a packet switching system made up of a single or a plurality of switching nodes or local units each including a label conversion unit for accommodating a plurality of packet circuits and performing conversion into output port information of a switch on the basis of a logic channel on a packet circuit, a self-routing switch for performing switching on the basis of the output port information, land a control unit for terminating a control packet and performing the call processing function, and a switching node or tandem unit including a single or a plurality of self-routing switches for interconnecting the local units, there are provided a device for setting, between the tandem unit and a destination-side local unit, the same logic channel as that between an originating-side local unit operative for information transfer and the tandem unit in respect of a call destined for a local unit other than this local unit and a device, operable in the originating side local unit for information transfer, for inserting output port information of the self-routing switch inside the tandem unit into a packet destined for the local unit other than this local unit, whereby in the tandem unit, setting of logic channel conversion information is not required to be done and even when any control signal packet from the originating-side local unit arrives at the tandem unit, the packet is transferred to the destination-side local unit without undergoing termination of packet and concomitant call processing control.

A broadcast information delivering system which includes a plurality of wireless terminals and a wireless base station having a transmitter for transmitting broadcast control information to a control channel, and a transmitter for transmitting a broadcast frame to a broadcast channel in accordance with a transmission condition defined in the broadcast control information. The broadcast frame includes a plurality of sub-frames containing different contents information to each other and a frame header including guidance information of the contents information. Each of the wireless terminals includes a receiver for receiving the control information from the control channel, and a receiver for receiving the broadcast frame from the broadcast channel based on the broadcast control information and selectively receiving the contents information in a specific one of said sub-frames in accordance with the guidance information of the broadcast frame.

Broadcast information delivering system

A frequency hopping communication system having a plurality of wireless mobile stations and at least one base station. Each wireless mobile station is operated to communicate according to a communication frame format generated by a base station. The system performing slow frequency hopping by keeping a frequency hopping interval within each frame. The hopping pattern of a frequency is designated at a field located at the tail of each communication frame by the base station.

Frequency-hopping communication system and communication station

In a packet switching system made up of a single or a plurality of switching nodes or local units each including a label conversion unit for accommodating a plurality of packet circuits and performing conversion into output port information of a switch on the basis of a logic channel on a packet circuit, a self-routing switch for performing switching on the basis of the output port information, and a control unit for terminating a control packet and performing the call processing function, and a switching node or tandem unit including a single or a plurality of self-routing switches for interconnecting the local units, there are provided a device for setting, between the tandem unit and a destination-side local unit, the same logic channel as that between an originating, side local unit operative for information transfer and the tandem unit in respect of a call destined for a local unit other than this local unit and a device, operable in the originating-side local unit for information transfer, for inserting output port information of the self-routing switch inside the tandem unit into a packet destined for the local unit other than this local unit, whereby in the tandem unit, setting of logic channel conversion information is not required to be done and even when any control signal packet from the originating-side local unit arrives at the tandem unit, the packet is transferred to the destination-side local unit without undergoing termination of packet and concomitant call processing control.

Time-division channel arrangement

A packet switching system which includes a device for setting, between a tandem unit and a destination local unit, the same logic channel as that between an originating local unit operative for information transfer and the tandem unit in respect of a call destined for a local unit other than the originating local unit and a device, operable in the originating-side local unit for information transfer, for inserting output port information of a self-routing switch inside the tandem unit into a packet destined for the local unit other than this local unit; in the tandem unit, setting of logic channel conversion information is not required to be done and even when any control signal packet from the originating local unit arrives at the tandem unit, the packet is transferred to the destination local unit without undergoing termination of packet and concomitant call processing control.

In a wireless communication system having a plurality of base stations connected through a control line and a plurality of mobile terminals, one of base stations (a master base station) informs a carrier frequency hop timing to the other base stations (slave base stations) through the control line. Each slave base station generates a wireless communication frame used inside of each cell and switches the carrier frequency of the wireless communication frame in synchronous to the timing indicated by the master base station. Each movable terminal receives an identifier of a frequency hopping sequence from a control information field of the wireless communication frame, hops to one carrier frequency selected among a frequency hopping sequence corresponding to this identifier, and transmit or receive the data through the field following the control information field of the wireless communication frame.

Frequency hopping wireless communication system and communication

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A packet switching system which includes a device for setting, between a tandem unit and a destination local unit, the same logic channel as that between an originating local unit operative for information transfer and the tandem unit in respect of a call destined for a local unit other than the originating local unit and a device, operable in the originating-side local unit for information transfer, for inserting output port information of a self-routing switch inside the tandem unit into a packet destined for the local unit other than this local unit. In the tandem unit, setting of logic channel conversion information is not required to be done and even when any control signal packet from the originating local unit arrives at the tandem unit, the packet is transferred to the destination local unit without undergoing termination of packet and concomitant call processing control.

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Eiichi Amada