Nokia Corporation

Eads Secure Networks Oy

Rasmus Relander

Timo Stenberg

Raimo Kantola

A method and an arrangement maintain end-to-end synchronization on a telecommunications connection transmitting data in frames substantially in real time and using synchronized end-to-end encryption, wherein at least a part of the telecommunications connection is a packet-switched connection, in which case the reproduction delay of the data to be transmitted can be increased by adding one or more extra frames to the frame string being transmitted, wherein the arrangement defines, based on the number of received frames, an initialization vector value corresponding to a frame received at the receiving end of the telecommunications connection and used in decrypting the frame, adjusts the reproduction delay to mark the frame to be added to increase the reproduction delay as an extra frame, and defines the initialization vector value to count only the frames not marked as extra frames in the number of received frames.

Maintaining end-to-end synchronization on a telecommunications connection

A method and arrangement for maintaining end-to-end synchronization on a telecommunications connection on which data are transmitted in frames substantially in real time and using synchronized end-to-end encryption which is synchronized by occasionally transmitting synchronization vectors in the frames, at least part of the telecommunications connection being a packet-switched connection, whereby the reproduction delay of the data to be transmitted can be increased by adding one or more extra frames to the frame sequence to be transferred and reduced by removing one or more frames from the frame sequence to be transferred, the arrangement including reproduction delay adjustment mechanisms arranged to change the reproduction delay during the data transmission at such a moment that the frame to be transferred next includes a synchronization vector.

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Rasmus Relander