Alcatel

Alcatel Alsthom Compagnie Generale D'electricite

Wolfgang Staiger

Gert Willmann

Rolf Bauer

Johannes Conradt

A method for assigning tasks for processing received from one or several client data processing nodes within a group of at least two server data processing nodes to one of the server data processing nodes, as well as a server data processing system, a client data processing node and a machine-readable storage medium for carrying out this process. A client data processing node that has a task to assign, first selects the server data processing node from the group that is the next server data processing node to be selected based on a predefined cyclical order. If the server data processing node that is selected first denies the processing of the task, the client data processing node randomly selects a different server data processing node for processing the task. Otherwise, the client data processing node assigns the task to the selected server data processing node.

Method for assigning tasks, data processing system, client data processing nodes and machine-readable storage medium

The invention concerns a method of establishing a multichannel connection comprising N channels, two switching facilities, a communications network, and a transmit-side and a receive-side access facility to a communications network. When a multichannel connection (SLOT3, SLOT7; SLOT5, SLOT28) is established through a switching network (DSN), first the transit times (T1, T2, T3) of more than N channels through the switching network (DSN) are determined (MONIT). Then N channels are selected from said more than N channels by means of an algorithm (CONTR), which uses the determined transit times (T1, T2, T3) as input values. Subsequently the selected N channels are assigned as channels to the multichannel connection (SLOT3, SLOT7; SLOT5, SLOT28), and for their synchronization the channels are delayed in accordance with the determined transit times (T1, T2, T3). This method is also applicable to end-to-end multichannel connections and single channel connections.

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Wolfgang Staiger