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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2017
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Paolo Debenedetti, Genoa, IT;
Stefano Stracca, Pisa, IT;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method of managing transport of packets transmitted over a time division multiplexed, TDM, link in a network. The method performed at a second network node comprises: receiving () blocks of data from a first network node. Data from one packet is received in a plurality of blocks and a first block from a packet has a time-stamp indicating arrival time of the packet at the first network node. The blocks are multiplexed for transmission over the TDM link. The method also comprises: queuing () the received blocks and if a block from the top of the queue () has a time-stamp (—yes) and a maximum allowed latency has been exceeded () the method discards () blocks containing data from the same packet as the block with said time-stamp if there is at least one block containing data from another packet in the queue (—yes). An apparatus is also disclosed.