Data transmission method and apparatus

• US 10,069,604 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2016
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hu, Xing, Hu, Yu, Shan, Shuchang, Li, Xiaowei
• Primary Examiner(s): Yao, Kwang B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jeong, Moo Ryong
• Application Number:
  US15/096,393
• Publication Number:
  US 20160226633A1
• Time in Patent Office: 875 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0007 by modifying the frame length
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/22 using redundant apparatus to increase reliability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0094 Bus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/245 Link aggregation, e.g. trunking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/28 using route fault recovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2592 using tunnelling or encapsulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/324 in the data link layer [OSI layer 2], e.g. HDLC
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/326 in the transport layer [OSI layer 4] H04L69/16 takes precedence

Abstract

A data transmission method and apparatus, where the method comprises checking full-bandwidth transmission paths of a bus, and When a fault occurs in the full-bandwidth transmission paths and a quantity of faulty full-bandwidth transmission paths is less than or equal to M, selecting N full-bandwidth transmission paths from full-bandwidth transmission paths that are not faulty to transmit a data unit, and when a fault occurs in the full-bandwidth transmission paths and a quantity of faulty full-bandwidth transmission paths is greater than M, reconfiguring a size of a data unit according to a quantity of full-bandwidth transmission paths that are not faulty and a target burst quantity.

Claims

1. A data transmission method, comprising:

detecting a fault occurs in transmission paths of a bus, wherein the transmission paths comprise N data transmission paths and M redundancy check paths, wherein the N data transmission paths are used to transmit a data unit, and the M redundancy check paths are used to perform data link layer check for transmission of the data unit, wherein N and M are both natural numbers greater than 0, and wherein the data unit is a data block with a specific data volume;

when a quantity of faulty transmission paths is less than or equal to M;

disabling a data link layer check function of the M redundancy check paths;

enabling a transport layer check function for the data unit transmission; and

selecting, after disabling the data link layer check function and enabling the transport layer check function, N transmission paths from the transmission paths that are not faulty to transmit the data unit; and

reconfiguring the data volume of the data unit according to a quantity of the transmission paths that are not faulty and a target burst quantity, when the quantity of faulty transmission paths is greater than M such that the data volume of the data unit is an integer multiple of the quantity of the transmission paths that are not faulty, wherein the target burst quantity is a quantity of transmission times over the transmission paths of the bus for completing transmission of one data unit.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein enabling the transport layer check function for data unit transmission comprises:

encapsulating the data unit into a plurality of packets;

adding a sequence number to each packet of the data unit;

adding a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code flag to each packet of the data unit; and

setting the CRC code flag to enable when the quantity of faulty transmission paths is less than or equal to M.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein before selecting N transmission paths from the transmission paths that are not faulty to transmit the data unit, when the quantity of faulty transmission paths is less than or equal to M, the method further comprises:

changing an original 12-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC12) code to an 8-bit CRC (CRC8) code; and

performing data link layer check in K transmission paths that are not faulty using the CRC8 code, wherein the K transmission paths that are not faulty are transmission paths that are not faulty and left after the N transmission paths are selected, and wherein K is an integer greater than 0.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein reconfiguring the data volume of the data unit according to the quantity of the transmission paths that are not faulty and the target burst quantity such that the data volume of the data unit is the integer multiple of the quantity of the transmission paths that are not faulty comprises:

reconfiguring a total data volume of the data unit;

acquiring the target burst quantity for transmission of the reconfigured data unit, wherein the target burst quantity is a sum of a data burst quantity and a check code burst quantity, wherein the check code burst quantity is a quantity of transmission times over the transmission paths for completing transmission of a check code corresponding to one data unit, and wherein the data burst quantity is a quantity of transmission times over the transmission paths for completing transmission of data corresponding to one data unit; and

multiplying the target burst quantity and the quantity of the transmission paths that are not faulty to obtain the reconfigured total data volume of the data unit, wherein one bit of the data volume of the data unit is transmitted over one of the transmission paths each time.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein acquiring the target burst quantity for transmission of the reconfigured data unit comprises:

rounding up a quotient obtained by dividing the data volume of the check code by the quantity of the transmission paths that are not faulty; and

multiplying a result obtained by rounding up the quotient by a base burst quantity in order to obtain the target burst quantity, wherein the base burst quantity is set according to a design standard of the bus.

6. A data transmission apparatus, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a data unit that needs to be transmitted;

a transmitter configured to transmit the data unit to a receiving end;

a memory configured to store one or more fixed sequences of instructions;

a processor coupled to the receiver, the transmitter and the memory, wherein when the fixed sequences of instructions are read from the memory and executed by the processor, causes the processor to;

detect a fault occurs in transmission paths of a bus, wherein the transmission paths comprise N data transmission paths and M redundancy check paths, wherein the N data transmission paths are used to transmit a data unit, and the M redundancy check paths are used to perform data link layer check for transmission of the data unit, wherein N and M are both natural numbers greater than 0, and wherein the data unit is a data block with a specific data volume;

when a quantity of faulty transmission paths is less than or equal to M;

disable a data link layer check function of the M redundancy check paths;

enable a transport layer check function for data unit transmission; and

instruct the transmitter to select, after disabling the data link layer check function and enabling the transport layer check function, N transmission paths from transmission paths that are not faulty to transmit the data unit;

obtain a reconfigured data unit by reconfiguring the data volume of the data unit according to a quantity of transmission paths that are not faulty and a target burst quantity when the quantity of faulty transmission paths is greater than M such that the data volume of the data unit is an integer multiple of the quantity of the transmission paths that are not faulty, wherein the target burst quantity is a quantity of transmission times over the transmission paths for completing transmission of one data unit; and

instruct the transmitter to transmit the reconfigured data unit over the transmission paths of the bus that are not faulty after the reconfiguration of the data unit is completed.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein when the fixed sequences of instructions are read from the memory and executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform further the steps of:

encapsulate the data unit into a plurality of packets;

add a sequence number to each packet of the data unit;

add a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code flag to each packet of the data unit; and

set the CRC code flag to enable when the quantity of faulty transmission paths is less than or equal to M.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein when the fixed sequences of instructions are read from the memory and executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform further the steps of:

change an original 12-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC12) code to an 8-bit CRC (CRC8) code when the quantity of faulty transmission paths is less than M; and

perform data link layer check in K transmission paths that are not faulty using the CRC8 code, wherein the K transmission paths that are not faulty are transmission paths that are not faulty and left after the N transmission paths are selected, and wherein K is an integer greater than 0.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein reconfiguring the data volume of the data unit comprises:

reconfiguring a total data volume of the data unit;

acquiring the target burst quantity for transmission of the reconfigured data unit, wherein the target burst quantity is a sum of a data burst quantity and a check code burst quantity, wherein the check code burst quantity is a quantity of transmission times over the transmission paths for completing transmission of a check code corresponding to one data unit, and wherein the data burst quantity is a quantity of transmission times over the transmission paths for completing transmission of data corresponding to one data unit; and

multiplying the target burst quantity and the quantity of transmission paths that are not faulty to obtain the reconfigured total data volume of the data unit, wherein one bit of the data volume of the data unit is transmitted over one of the transmission paths each time.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the target burst quantity for transmission of the reconfigured data unit is obtained by:

rounding up a quotient obtained by dividing a data volume of a check code by the quantity of transmission paths that are not faulty; and

multiplying a result obtained by rounding up the quotient by a base burst quantity in order to obtain the target burst quantity, wherein the base burst quantity is set according to a design standard of the bus.