Alcatel Cit

Alcatel

Alcatel N.v.

Marc Dieudonne

Pierre Parmentier

Patrick Frene

Jean-Pierre Glon

Paul Vinel

Philippe Perrier

Rene Coutin

Pierre Hermet

Hubert Mionet

Lothar Katzschner

For allocating radio resources in a time-division multiple access packet mode radio communication system, each remote station stores transmit authorizations for each time slot of a frame in a table. The packets are stored in a plurality of queues in each remote station. The table is duplicated and one table is read during a frame while the other table is being written.

Allocation of uplink radio resources in a radio communication system

An ATM cell switching device comprises a switching arrangement means interconnecting a plurality of input terminal functions with a plurality of output terminal functions and creates groups of connections, all the connections of a group of connections coming from the same input terminal function and going to at least one common output terminal function. Each of the connection cells of a group of connections is assigned the same connection group identifier for routing cells in the switching arrangement. Each of the input terminal functions and the output terminal functions comprises, for each of the groups of connections, a spacing arrangement for re-establishing the nominal period of the cells of each of the connections or establishing a global period for all of the group.

Device and method for switching ATM cells to groups of connections and corresponding input and output terminal functions

An encryption device can be used to encrypt information units conveyed by cells that are broadcast from an optical broadcast node to network units by a passive optical network. Each cell conveys at least one information unit and each information unit is addressed to a respective subscriber terminal. The device includes an encryption system that receives in clear at least one key from at least one decryption device located in a network unit. Applications include ATM telecommunication networks.

Encryption device and decryption device for information conveyed by

A switching network for switching data in the form of cells transmitted in asynchronous transfer mode is of the 'multiple path, cell auto-routing and directed sub-connection' type. Detectors are provided at each output port of the switching network to detect the absence of a missing cell in a call using that output. Incident registers store in response thereto an incident indication signifying that a cell is missing and indicating the path that the missing cell must have taken from path data derived from another cell of the same call.

ATM cell switching network

A multiplexing process in an asynchronous transfer mode telecommunication network consists in placing a payload in a series of cells supporting the same logical channel a series of data containers supporting the same logical channel, each container including a load that is a quantity of data greater than the payload of each cell. In one preferred embodiment the payload of each container is composite. It includes conventional synchronous digital channel samples and data micropackets each of which has a label indicating a logical channel and the length of the packet. Applications include ATM telecommunication networks.

Multiplexing process in an asynchronous transfer mode telecommunication

In a method of routing cells in an asynchronous time-division multiplex switching network interconnecting input switches and output switches via switches, each input switch can be connected to each output switch via at least two paths. The transmission of a sequence of cells of a given call between one input switch, called the call input switch, and one output switch, called the call output switch, comprises the following steps:

Method of routing cells in an asynchronous time-division multiplex

A simple implementation of a high-capacity switching matrix includes four input functional modules each having one input and four outputs and four output functional modules each having four inputs and one output. A broadcast network has 16 inputs connected to the 16 outputs of the input functional modules and 16 outputs connected to the 16 inputs of the output functional modules to broadcast four signals from each input functional module simultaneously to each output functional module. The broadcast network includes four send subsystems each sending four optical carriers at four different wavelengths .lambda..sub.1, . . . .lambda..sub.4 and four receive subsystems each receiving four optical carriers at these respective wavelengths. The broadcast network further includes four optical buses each connected to a respective input of a receive subsystem and to a respective send subsystem so that the jth bus for j=1 through 4 receives from the kth send subsystem the carriers at the wavelengths .lambda..sub.1-k(modulo 4), . . . .lambda..sub.4-k(modulo 4). Applications include switching equipment.

High capacity switching matrix

The invention relates to a switching network enabling a plurality of bothway I/O links to be interconnected. In one embodiment of the invention, the network includes at least two nodes, each node possessing not more than k incident I/O points, k.gtoreq.2, n sets of k extended I/O points, n.gtoreq.2, and extension/concentration devices enabling each of the k incident I/O points to be connected to one of the extended I/O points of each of the n sets. Each bothway I/O link is capable of being connected to one of the incident I/O points of one of the nodes, and each node is associated with a bothway switching matrix having k I/O ports. The nodes are interconnected in pairs by first and second one-way switching matrices each having k input ports and k output ports.

Switching network for interconnecting bothway input/output links, use

A cell assembly device switches and assembles synchronous digital channels into asynchronous transfer mode cells supporting asynchronous logical channels. The cells are sent on asynchronous multiplex links, and the synchronous digital channels are conveyed by synchronous multiplex links organized into recurrent frames. Samples of each synchronous digital channel are represented by binary words placed in time slots occupying fixed positions in the frames. The cell assembly device includes: an input memory for storing the samples of all the synchronous digital channels of each frame as the samples are received; cell formation memories which supply cells to the asynchronous multiplex links; a cell identifier memory for storing information for each cell; a marking memory containing a link list containing the information necessary for switching of the synchronous digital channels to the asynchronous logical channels; and a control circuit for transmitting octets from the input memory into one of the cell formation memories, and for transmitting a header from the cell identifier memory into one of the cell formation memories, at write addresses supplied by the cell identifier memory.

Synchronous digital channel cell assembly and disassembly device,

A device evaluates the throughput of virtual circuits conveying cells and using an asynchronous time-division multiplex transmission medium. It comprises a store in which each virtual circuit is assigned a context containing a set of data defining the conditions for evaluating the throughput of the virtual circuit and data obtained from previous such evaluations. A clock supplies a current time and a processor unit reads the context of the respective virtual circuit when each cell is received. This context contains a start time which was the current time observed and stored when a previous cell of the virtual circuit in question was received. The start time is subtracted from the current time and the time difference obtained in this way together with the number of cells observed between that for which the start time was recorded and the present cell provide a basis for evaluating the throughput. The device comprises a unit for scanning the contexts cyclically and, during this cyclic scanning, incrementing for each context the content of a scan cycle counter having an initial position. The device also comprises a unit for identifying virtual circuits guaranteeing a minimal throughput and a processor unit comparing for each identified virtual circuit the content of the scan cycle counter for the identified virtual circuit with a predetermined threshold value to produce a cut off call detection signal if the content of the counter reaches the predetermined threshold value.

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