Abstract: The invention provides a method of determining the degree of network address translation (NAT) traversing required to dynamically establish a bearer path within or out of a Service Provider hosted Enterprise VoIP VPN. Each media end point in the Enterprise IP VPN has associated with it a chain of the identities of a hierarchy of NAT functions behind which it resides with respect to an SP public IP network over which the Enterprise VoIP is hosted. By comparing the respective NAT function identity chains for an originating end point and a destination end point, a call agent can determine what, if any, NAT functions need to be traversed in the bearer path between the end points.

Abstract: A router rolls back a current running configuration to a selected prior running configuration without requiring interruption or reinitialization of the router or of its network connections. The router retrieves command line interface control settings associated with the selected prior running configuration and those associated with the current running configuration. The router then generates and executes a rollback script based on the difference between the prior control settings and the current control settings.

Abstract: A system for dispersing the load of a network that can avoid local traffic congestion in a communication route within a broadband network is provided.

Abstract: Methods and systems for rate-based flow control between a sender and a receiver are disclosed. A receiver performs TCP-like flow control calculations based on packets received from a sender. The receiver calculates a transmission rate and forwards the transmission rate to the sender. The sender sends packets to the receiver at the rate calculated by the receiver. Thus, rather than having sender-based flow control as in TCP, the receiver controls the rate at which packets are delivered.

Abstract: Provided is a system and method for controlling overload in a telecommunications network. The network carries a traffic load that may include traffic of multiple classes and mixed types. The method determines whether the traffic load has exceeded one or more overload thresholds. Each threshold is associated with a class or type of traffic. If one or more of the thresholds have been exceeded, the method sets a timer associated with the exceeded threshold. Each timer has a state (e.g., expired or not expired) and the states of the timers are used to look up a function for controlling the overload. The function is used to alter the traffic flow of one or more of the traffic classes.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for processing time division multiplexed (TDM) signals which may be custom in format. The TDM signal is translated to an intermediate frequency, or externally demodulated, input, and processed. Individual channels of either analog, digital or both are output. Since the configuration of the processor is software controlled, different TDM signals may be processed without reconfiguring hardware.

Abstract: Provided is a system and method for maximizing throughput in a telecommunications network. The method is operable to select and service a request for a communication session by selecting a bit rate and assigning the bit rate to the request. The method selects the request from a pool of queued requests and the bit rate from all supported bit rates. The request and bit rate are selected based on calculations that determine an amount of power needed for each queued request at each bit rate. The calculations result in ratios representing each combination of power and bit rate for each request. The method selects the ratio having the highest number of bit rates per power unit and assigns the bit rate to the associated request. This approach enables the method to select a queued request according to current network constraints and so provides an optimal approach that maximizes throughput.

Abstract: A method of transmitting a context identifier of header compression on a data packet connection in a telecommunications system, in which the context identifier can be transmitted either as part of a compressed data packet or in the header of a data packet to be transmitted at the convergence protocol layer of the telecommunications system. The transmission method of the context identifier is selected by comparing the space available in the header of the convergence protocol layer data packets with the number of context identifiers defined for the compression method, and attaching the context identifiers to the headers of the convergence protocol layer data packets or to a compressed data packet, depending on whether the space available in the header of the convergence protocol layer data packets is larger or smaller than the number of context identifiers defined for the compression method.

Abstract: A multi channels data transmission control method comprises steps of: provide multiple channels and channel counters with the same number, these channels have multiple data frames; based on these channels and data frames to generate an acknowledgement record matrix; partition data into several segments; and arrange every data segment into every channel's frame sequentially and check the transferring status of previous frame of respective channel. If the transferring status of previous frame is incomplete, then skip this channel and arrange this segment into next one's frame. If the transferring status of a channel's frame becomes complete, then the respective channel counter should be increased by 1; record the transferring status of these channels' frames into acknowledgement record matrix; and then, receive data by this acknowledgement record matrix and reflective channel's counters.

Abstract: A protocol for communicating data on a passive optical network conforming to the Ethernet standard provides processes for remote network node discovery and synchronization. Uplink packet transmissions to a central controller, such as an optical line terminal, are scheduled by the central controller. Downlink packets from the central controller to a remote network node, such as an optical network unit, are encrypted to preserve privacy, and the key used for encryption is changed periodically. The protocol further provides processes for detecting the loss of physical or logical connection between the central controller and the remote network nodes.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for continuous synchronization of a pair of independently clocked asynchronous data streams (100, 101) consisting of raster data from independent imaging acquisition systems comprises a means for acquiring individual rasters from a first stream of data. A counter for counting (60) a first total number of received rasters and data merge logic (65) for comparing the first total to a first threshold. A means for acquiring individual rasters from a second stream of data. A means for transferring the first acquired data stream and the second acquired data stream to a composite output when the first total is greater than the first threshold. The method includes adding or subtracting idle pixels from an interline gap.

Abstract: Disclosed is an Active Queue Management method and apparatus which uses traffic rate information for congestion control. Using a nonlinear fluid-flow model of Traffic Control Protocol, an integral controller in a closed loop configuration with gain settings characterized for stable operation allows a matching of the aggregate rate of the active TCP connections to the available capacity. Further disclosed is a method for calculation of the regime of gains for which stable operation of a given network obtains. This approach allows for capacity matching while maintaining minimal queue size and high link utilization.

Abstract: A timeslot interchange switch has a three stage pipelined construction. A cross-connect stage identifies egress timeslots for which there is a corresponding data source. The cross connect stage has a set of flags which indicate whether or not there is a data source for each of a plurality of egress timeslots. The cross connect stage takes the flags in groups. If one or more flags in a group indicates an egress timeslot has a corresponding data source then information identifying the egress timeslot is passed to a connection scheduler via a FIFO. The connection scheduler looks up the data source for each the egress timeslot.

Abstract: A method and system for mapping logical fabric ports to line ingress queues. The system provides for the mapping of line ingress queues to logical destination ports instead of to physical fabric ports. The association of ingress queues with logical destination ports enables a doubling of the switch port capacity that is available when redundancy is employed on all switch ports within the switching fabric. The method and system provides for the distributed broadcasting of mapping table updates. The system employs a multi-shelf switching fabric. Upon the active-standby switchover of a shelf line card, the shelf manager on the impacted shelf, broadcasts by means of a broadcast control cell (BCC), mapping table updates to the TM ASICs associated with each shelf in the shelf cluster. These updates include the current logical to physical port mappings of the logical and the physical ports located on the impacted shelf.

Abstract: There are provided a method and device for transmitting/receiving reverse data rate information in a mobile communication system supporting multimedia service applications including voice and data services. According to the present invention, upon receipt of information about the maximum data rate of an SCH, a mobile station determines the minimum number of bits to be assigned to the reverse data rate information according to the number of data rates less than or equal to the maximum data rate and then transmits the reverse data rate information with the minimum number of bits to a base station.

Abstract: The invention relates to a duplex transmission system, wherein an echo compensation signal (yec(k·t)) is generated which is combined with a receive signal (u(t)) to prevent crosstalk from the own transmitter to the receiver. Before feeding the receive signal to the echo compensation device (6, 7), the receive signal is initially scanned with the double symbol rate, equalized and subsequently scanned once again with the simple symbol rate so that only one compensation value per receive signal has to be generated by the echo compensation device (6, 7).

Abstract: The invention is concerned with improvements in full duplex Internet telephone systems with a system architecture having low latency and permitting voice communication with telephone to telephone or PC to telephone connections. The architecture permits dynamic packet-to-packet change in codec to adjust for Internet conditions. The voice port creates self-describing packet conditions so that the higher-level software of the system is independent of codec selection. In addition to adjusting the codec, the voice port has the capability of dynamically and concurrently selecting other factors such as the level of error correction redundancy, the packet size and packet bundling on a packet-to-packet basis. The invention further includes a technique to eliminate dead air spaces in the voice data transmission stream by speeding up or slowing down the data rate in the buffer while maintaining a constant pitch of speech.

Abstract: A multimode queuing system for DiffServ routers is provided. The multimode buffering and scheduling system that can be adjusted to show either “pure” AF/EF behavior, “pure” DSUI behavior, or a combination of the AF/EF behavior and the DSUI behavior. An operation point parameter may be set to select the desired behavior. DiffServ products utilizing the combination of the behaviors are flexible and more configurable as compared to only AF/EF products. The multimode queuing system deployment is simple and is a low cost modification to DiffServ routers. The same hardware and/or software implementation can support both mechanisms with very small additional cost and effort. Also the management of the system is simplified. For example, there is no need for several parallel queuing systems.

Abstract: A wireless LAN system comprising a plurality of wireless stations, and a switching apparatus for switching a frequency channel used between stations communicated with each other. The switching apparatus includes means for selecting the frequency channel to be used, and means for sending a switching request packet for specifying the selected frequency channel to the stations. Each of the stations include means for switching a current frequency channel to the frequency channel specified by the switching request packet received.

Abstract: A method for scheduling data bursts from origin to destination nodes of a communication system involves selecting a yet-unscheduled, feasible node pair for scheduling of a burst therebetween; selecting a timeslot from a finite timeslot sequence; scheduling the burst for the selected timeslot; and repeating the preceding steps to exhaustion of unscheduled demand or of feasible node pairs. The feasibility of a node pair is conditioned on the avoidance of collisions with already-scheduled bursts, taking the various origin-to-destination propagation delays into account.