Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Tae Sik Cheung

Jeong Dong Ryoo

Bhum Cheol Lee

Woo Young Choi

Bong Tae Kim

Min Soo Kim

Do Yeon Kim

Won Kyoung Lee

Hae Won Jung

Jeong-dong Ryoo

Byung Jun Ahn

Kyeong Ho Lee

Jea Hoon Yu

Chang Ho Choi

Tae Kyu Kang

Byungjun Ahn

Dae Ub Kim

Jae Wook Lee

Jeong Hee Lee

A frame transmission controlling apparatus includes: a list configuration unit managing a parameter related to a gate control; a cycle timer unit managing a start timing of a cycle; a list executing unit performing the gate control based on the parameter, wherein the list executing unit includes: a cycle executing state machine setting an expiration time of at least one section included in the cycle, checking gate operation information corresponding to a list pointer indicating the at least one section, and performing a control corresponding to the gate operation information; a delaying state machine deducting and updating the expiration time by a predetermined unit; a cycle holding state machine generating a control signal indicating stopping transmission in MAC; and a cycle releasing state machine generating a control signal indicating resuming the transmission in MAC.

Method and apparatus for controlling frame transmission

Provided is a packet transmission apparatus including at least one user network interface (UNI) line card configured to receive traffic including a client signal, a fabric switch configured to perform switching on the traffic based on a unit of line card, a network-to-network interface working (NNI-W) line card configured to generate a multiprotocol label switching-transport profile (MPLS-TP) working tunnel to transmit the traffic transferred through the fabric switch, and a network-to-network interface protection (NNI-P) line card configured to generate a MPLS-TP protection tunnel to transmit the traffic transferred through the fabric switch when a fault occurs on a path of the NNI-W line card.

Packet transmission apparatus for processing operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) packet and protection switching message

Provided is a linear protection switching method of a node, wherein the method includes selecting a local request based on a priority of at least one local request, determining a global request based on a priority between the selected local request and a remote message, and performing a state transition based on the global request.

Method and apparatus for linear protection switching

A method for protection switching in a shared node where protection resources of a plurality of end-to-end linear protection domain are shared is provided. The shared node receives a first protection switching event message notifying that a protection switching event occurs from a first node of a first end-to-end linear protection domain, and determines whether to prohibit protection switching on a second end-to-end linear protection domain by comparing a priority of the first end-to-end linear protection domain with a priority of the second end-to-end linear protection domain.

Method and apparatus for shared mesh protection switching

Provided are a shared mesh protection switching apparatus and method. The shared mesh protection switching apparatus includes a plurality of linear protection switching processors allocated to the linear protection domains respectively and configured to provide a switching report signal in response to fault occurrence in the corresponding linear protection domains or a linear protection switching operation, and perform a function of limiting use of the shared section in response to a provided lock signal, and a mesh protection switching processor configured to select at least one linear protection domain to be limited in use of the network resources of the shared section according to a predetermined reference when the switching report signal is provided and provide the lock signal to a linear protection switching processor corresponding to the at least one selected linear protection domain.

Apparatus and method for protection switching for mesh topolgy

Provided is a clock operating method and apparatus for supporting a plurality of Ethernet physical layer interfaces. To provide a network synchronization function in a board of simultaneously accommodating the plurality of Ethernet physical layer interfaces, the clock operating method may include: determining a physical layer interface according to a current network synchronization mode; and generating a clock signal of the determined physical layer interface as a reference signal of another physical layer interface.

Clock operating method and apparatus for supporting ethernet physical layer interfaces

A method and system for protection switching in Ethernet rings are disclosed. The method for protection switching in Ethernet rings includes: receiving a server signal fail (SSF), an Ethernet lower layer fault signal, a remote defect indication (RDI) for informing a different port about a fault state when a uni-directional fault is generated, and ring-automatic protection switching (R-APS) information for requesting Ethernet ring protection switching; comparing the SSF, the RDI, and the R-APS information, and setting states of the first and second Ethernet rings; determining a protection switching priority level of each of the first and second Ethernet rings according to the states of the first and second Ethernet rings; and performing protection switching on the first and second Ethernet rings according to their protection switching priority levels.

Method and system for protection switching in ethernet ring

Provided is an operational status testing apparatus and method for an Ethernet-based APS process. A test command signal which contains a command to perform an operational test for the APS process of a first node and a second test response signal that indicates that the operation of the APS process of a second node is performed normally, from among far end request signals that are received from the second node connected to own first node via an Ethernet network, are filtered. When the far end request signals are test command signals, a first test response signal that indicates that the operation of the APS process of the first node is performed normally is generated, and a top priority local request signal is selected based on priorities of the first test response signal and at least one local request signal that indicates the status of the APS process of the first node, and an output signal to be transmitted to the second node is determined based on priorities of the top priority local request signal and the filtered the far end request signal. The function for testing the operational status for the APS process defined in ITU-T recommendation G.8031 is embodied, and when an operational status test request is received from another node, the APS process can be tested effectively without having to perform a complicated diagnosis operation for the APS process.

Operational status testing apparatus and method for Ethernet-based automatic protection switching process

Provided are a clock signal selecting apparatus and method that can guarantee the continuity of an output clock signal. The clock signal selecting apparatus and method can synchronize the phases of at least two clock signals by continuously controlling the phases of the clock signals. Accordingly, even when an active clock signal and a standby clock signal have different frequencies, it is possible to guarantee the continuity of the output clock signal regardless of whether the clock signals are switched from one to another. In addition, it is possible to guarantee the stability of the output clock signal.

Clock signal selecting apparatus and method that guarantee continuity of output clock signal

A multi-functional switch fabric apparatus and a control method for a multi-functional switch fabric apparatus are provided. The multi-functional switch fabric apparatus includes a plurality of input data processors, which copy, distribute, switch, and output input user data according to a mode set signal from the outside, a switch fabric unit, which includes a plurality of switching units and selectively outputs the user data input from the plurality of input data processors according to the mode set signal, a plurality of output data processors, which buffer, schedule, multiplex, and output the user data input from the switch fabric unit, and a control unit, which outputs the mode set signal to control the plurality of input data processors, the switch fabric unit, and the plurality of output data processors.

Multi-functional switch fabric apparatus and control method for the same

Provided are a data transceiver and method for performing equalization and pre-emphasis adaptive to the transmission characteristic of a transmitting part. The transceiver measures the signal attenuation characteristic of a transmission line of a receiving part using an input data signal input via the transmission line of the receiving part, decodes the distorted waveform of the input data signal, distorts the waveform of an output data signal beforehand using the measured signal attenuation characteristic of the transmission line of the receiving part, and transmits the output data signal via a transmission line of a transmitting part. Thus, when the output data signal is transmitted via the transmission line of the transmitting part, the waveform of the signal remains optimized.

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Tae Sik Cheung