Patents by Inventor Shimin Zou

Shimin Zou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11658759
    Abstract: A method for low-rate signal transmission on Optical Transport Networks is provided. In the method, a signal is mapped to a low-rate OPU of a low-rate ODU, wherein the low-rate ODU comprises an ODU overhead section and the low-rate OPU, the low-rate OPU comprises an OPU overhead section and an OPU payload section, the low-rate ODU has a bit rate of 1, 244, 160 Kbps±20 ppm, and the OPU payload section has a bit rate of 1, 238, 954.31 Kbps±20 ppm; OPU overhead bytes and ODU overhead bytes are added to corresponding overhead section; then, the low-rate ODU is multiplexed to an Optical channel Data Unit-k (ODUk) that has a bit rate higher than the bit rate of the low-rate ODU; finally, the ODUk is transmitted via the OTN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimin Zou
  • Publication number: 20150215060
    Abstract: A method for low-rate signal transmission on Optical Transport Networks is provided. In the method, a signal is mapped to a low-rate OPU of a low-rate ODU, wherein the low-rate ODU comprises an ODU overhead section and the low-rate OPU, the low-rate OPU comprises an OPU overhead section and an OPU payload section, the low-rate ODU has a bit rate of 1, 244, 160 Kbps±20 ppm, and the OPU payload section has a bit rate of 1, 238, 954.31 Kbps±20 ppm; OPU overhead bytes and ODU overhead bytes are added to corresponding overhead section; then, the low-rate ODU is multiplexed to an Optical channel Data Unit-k (ODUk) that has a bit rate higher than the bit rate of the low-rate ODU; finally, the ODUk is transmitted via the OTN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventor: Shimin ZOU
  • Patent number: 9014151
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for low-rate traffic signal transmission on Optical Transport Networks (OTN). The method includes: defining a frame format of the low-rate traffic optical channel data unit (ODU) signal for bearing the low-rate traffic signal; mapping the low-rate traffic signal to the low-rate traffic optical channel payload unit (OPU) of the low-rate traffic ODU signal, generating overhead bytes and filling the bytes in an overhead section of the low-rate traffic ODU to obtain the low-rate traffic ODU signal; multiplexing low-rate traffic ODU signals to an ODUk signal of which the rate matches the transmission rate rank of the OTN where the signal is transmitted, and transmitting the signal via the OTN. Based on this method, the invention provides an apparatus for the low-rate traffic signal transmission in the OTN as well. With this invention, the low-rate traffic signal transmission in the OTN can be implemented conveniently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 8891352
    Abstract: A data transmission method is disclosed in the present invention, where the method includes: mapping a data stream to be transmitted to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access, OFDMA, sub-carrier; scheduling the OFDMA sub-carrier; multiplexing the OFDMA sub-carrier to generate an OFDMA frame; and transmitting the OFDMA frame. A data transmission apparatus and a data receiving apparatus are also disclosed in the present invention. Through the present invention, a cross connection capability on the basis of the OFDMA sub-carrier is implemented, and in this way, not only all convergence services from a slave node to a master node are supported, but also a private line connection between two slave nodes is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 8824504
    Abstract: A packet add/drop multiplexer and a data transmission method of a packet add/drop multiplexer are provided. The packet add/drop multiplexer includes: a line interface unit including a first line interface and a second line interface; a scheduling unit, configured to schedule a data frame of an input transporting side and send a data frame of an output transporting side through the second line interface; a branch unit, configured to encapsulate received data to a third Transmission Container (T-CONT) data packet and send the third T-CONT data packet to the scheduling unit, or decapsulate a first T-CONT data packet sent by the scheduling unit to recover data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 8559819
    Abstract: The information transfer method includes: determining an indicator of a start bit in a protection time slot or a preamble time slot of a laser, and establishing a communication channel according to the indicator of the start bit; inserting Operation Administration and Maintenance (OAM) information of a Long Reach-Passive Optical Network (LR-PON) device into an upstream frame sent to an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) device by the LR-PON device at a position indicated by the indicator of the start bit, and transporting the upstream frame to the OLT device through the communication channel. Therefore, OAM functions of the LR-PON device are extended, so that the OAM information can be transported by the LR-PON device independently, and OAM characteristics of the LR-PON device are enhanced. For example, PON protection is better supported, and the speed and success ratio of protection switching of a PON system are increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kun Li, Jun Cai, Jianlin Zhou, Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 8462656
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for multi-service adaptation and carriage, comprising: mapping at the service adaptation layer different types of services into uniform enhanced Gigabit Passive Optical Network Encapsulation Method (E-GEM) frames; combining at the channel layer E-GEM frames encapsulating the same type of services into the same type of T-CONT frames; setting a priority for each type of T-CONT; guaranteeing bandwidth for T-CONT frames with high priority and preferentially sending it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianlin Zhou, Yang Cao, Xing Hu, Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 8451836
    Abstract: In the field of optical network communication technologies, a method, a device, and a system for transmitting a constant rate data stream are provided. The method for transmitting the constant rate data stream by the first network device includes: receiving a constant rate data stream; calculating an input rate of the constant rate data stream or a rate difference between the input rate and a standard rate of the constant rate data stream in each cycle of a reference clock; encapsulating the constant rate data stream into a Gigabit-Passive Optical Network (GPON) Encapsulation Method (GEM) frame by using a bit as a minimum encapsulation unit; and encapsulating the GEM frame into a GPON Transmission Convergence Layer (GTC) frame, and sending the GTC frame to the second network device through a GPON network. Therefore, the technical solutions may be widely applied to the GPON network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kin Li, Jianlin Zhou, Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 8406636
    Abstract: A central office optical line terminal (S-OLT) and a local optical line terminal (L-OLT) are connected to through a transmission link form a transmission network. The S-OLT sends service data sent by a service network to the L-OLT through a transmission channel, receives the service data sent by the L-OLT from the transmission channel, and sends the service data to the service network. The L-OLT receives the service data sent by the S-OLT from the transmission channel and sends the service data to an optical network unit (ONU), and sends the service data sent by the ONU to the S-OLT through the transmission channel. Thus, the service data of the L-OLT is sent to the service network through the S-OLT, thereby solving a problem in the existing PON that the service data requires another transmission of the transmission network to reach the service network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 8380061
    Abstract: A method, system and device for protecting a Long Reach Passive Optical Network (LR-PON) system are provided. The Electrical Relay (E-R) device receives the optical signal transmitted on two fiber transmission paths by the Optical Line Terminal (OLT) or Optical Network Unit (ONU) on one side, performs optical-to-electrical (O/E) conversion, signal regeneration, and electrical-to-optical (E/O) conversion for the optical signal, and sends the signal to the ONU or the OLT on the other side through the two fiber transmission paths. Through backup of the fiber transmission path, an LR-PON system protection method is provided to improve the reliability of the LR-PON system. The method, system, and device for protecting the LR-PON system under the present invention all support and are compatible with the existing functions of all devices in the existing LR-PON system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianlin Zhou, Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 8315520
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a system for transmitting data. The OLT sets a multiframe indication and an upstream timeslot indication overhead in the downstream frame sent to the ONU. After receiving the downstream frame, the ONU determines the upstream bandwidth position according to the multiframe indication and the upstream timeslot indication overhead, and sends upstream data to the OLT from the upstream bandwidth position of the upstream frame. Through controlling the upstream data transmission by multiframes, each T-CONT carries an overhead area regardless of the length, and thus able to carry longer payload as against an equivalent overhead area in the prior art. In this way, the overhead area is saved and the bandwidth utilization is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 8285139
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for managing alarms in a Long Reach Passive Optical Network (LR-PON) system are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a PON signal from an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) or an Optical Network Unit (ONU) on one side; checking whether the obtained PON signal fails; and notifying the ONU or the OLT on the other side if the PON signal fails. The method, system and apparatus under the present invention monitor the LR-PON transmission quality and process various alarm indications raised in the LR-PON signal monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianlin Zhou, Shimin Zou
  • Publication number: 20120230693
    Abstract: A signal processing method, device, and system in a passive optical network are provided. The signal processing method in the passive optical network includes: performing baseband encoding processing on a received service signal; modulating the service signal after baseband encoding processing onto allocated Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access subcarriers through an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing modulation manner; performing digital/analog conversion on the modulated OFDMA subcarriers to obtain an electric domain Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access signal; modulating the electric domain Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access signal to an uplink optical signal to obtain an optical domain Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access signal; and transmitting the optical domain Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimin Zou
  • Publication number: 20120176990
    Abstract: A data transmission method is disclosed in the present invention, where the method includes: mapping a data stream to be transmitted to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access, OFDMA, sub-carrier; scheduling the OFDMA sub-carrier; multiplexing the OFDMA sub-carrier to generate an OFDMA frame; and transmitting the OFDMA frame. A data transmission apparatus and a data receiving apparatus are also disclosed in the present invention. Through the present invention, a cross connection capability on the basis of the OFDMA sub-carrier is implemented, and in this way, not only all convergence services from a slave node to a master node are supported, but also a private line connection between two slave nodes is supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 8184987
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a system for realizing data transmission extension in a passive optical network (PON) are provided. Between a burst-mode clock and data recovery (BCDR) module and an electrical-optical (E/O) amplification module, the device includes a delimiter matching module and a preamble buffering and compensating module. The delimiter matching module is adapted to receive a data frame sent by the BCDR module and determine a location of a delimiter in the data frame. An optical-electrical (O/E) amplification module performs O/E conversion, amplification, and shaping on the data frame. The BCDR module then performs clock and data recovery processing on the data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juan Chen, Shimin Zou, Jianlin Zhou
  • Publication number: 20110305458
    Abstract: A service adaptation device includes: a service access unit, configured to obtain service data, where the service data includes a Gigabit-Passive Optical Network (GPON) Encapsulation Method (GEM) frame, Time Division Multiplex (TDM) service data, and Ethernet (ETH) service data; and an Enhanced GPON Encapsulation Method (E-GEM) adaptation unit, configured to encapsulate the service data obtained by the service access unit into an E-GEM frame. A service adaptation method includes: obtaining service data, where the service data includes a GEM frame, TDM service data, and ETH service data; and encapsulating the obtained service data into an E-GEM frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianlin Zhou, Shimin Zou, Xing Hu, Yang Cao
  • Patent number: 8059684
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for splitting an asynchronous signal are provided. The method includes: buffering, according to frame sequence, an asynchronous signal to be split; and sending n frames of data respectively on n channels in parallel whenever n frames of data have been buffered, where n is a ratio of a rate level of the asynchronous signal before split to that of the asynchronous signal after split. A method and apparatus for signal combination are provided. The method includes: buffering n channels of parallel signals to be combined simultaneously according to frame sequence; and sending n channels of frames serially after one frame is buffered for each of the n channels of the parallel signals; wherein n is a ratio of a rate level of the parallel signals after combined to a rate level of the parallel signals before combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Xiao, Shimin Zou, Zhiqing Yu
  • Publication number: 20110200323
    Abstract: The information transfer method includes: determining an indicator of a start bit in a protection time slot or a preamble time slot of a laser, and establishing a communication channel according to the indicator of the start bit; inserting Operation Administration and Maintenance (OAM) information of a Long Reach-Passive Optical Network (LR-PON) device into an upstream frame sent to an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) device by the LR-PON device at a position indicated by the indicator of the start bit, and transporting the upstream frame to the OLT device through the communication channel. Therefore, OAM functions of the LR-PON device are extended, so that the OAM information can be transported by the LR-PON device independently, and OAM characteristics of the LR-PON device are enhanced. For example, PON protection is better supported, and the speed and success ratio of protection switching of a PON system are increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kun Li, Jun Cai, Jianlin Zhou, Shimin Zou
  • Publication number: 20110164877
    Abstract: In the field of optical network communication technologies, a method, a device, and a system for transmitting a constant rate data stream are provided. The method for transmitting the constant rate data stream by the first network device includes: receiving a constant rate data stream; calculating an input rate of the constant rate data stream or a rate difference between the input rate and a standard rate of the constant rate data stream in each cycle of a reference clock; encapsulating the constant rate data stream into a Gigabit-Passive Optical Network (GPON) Encapsulation Method (GEM) frame by using a bit as a minimum encapsulation unit; and encapsulating the GEM frame into a GPON Transmission Convergence Layer (GTC) frame, and sending the GTC frame to the second network device through a GPON network. Therefore, the technical solutions may be widely applied to the GPON network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kun Li, Jianlin Zhou, Shimin Zou
  • Publication number: 20110150463
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for multi-service adaptation and carriage, comprising: mapping at the service adaptation layer different types of services into uniform enhanced Gigabit Passive Optical Network Encapsulation Method (E-GEM) frames; combining at the channel layer E-GEM frames encapsulating the same type of services into the same type of T-CONT frames; setting a priority for each type of T-CONT; guaranteeing bandwidth for T-CONT frames with high priority and preferentially sending it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Jianlin Zhou, Yang Cao, Xing Hu, Shimin Zou