Abstract: The transport of ABCD bits in a digital packet network is facilitated by the inclusion of the ABCD bits into the RTP header of the digital packets. The ABCD bits are first placed in the unused bits of the RTP header. Redundancy of the previous ABCD bits, when applicable, is achieved by restricting the size of fields in the header to reserve space for redundant ABCD bits. The ABCD bits are placed in the reserved portions of restricted header fields.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for transmitting messages to components in a wireless communication system using a server process. In an embodiment of the present invention, the wireless communication system is a set of interconnected nodes with a main circuit board connected to zero or more components. To transmit a message to a component in the wireless communication system, the message is first encapsulated with a reference label that is associated with a component to which the message is to be sent, i.e., destination component. Upon encapsulation, the message is then transmitted to a destination node, which is a node on which resides the destination component. At the destination node, a server process determines an address for the destination component using the reference label.