Data frame construction method and data processing method according to data frame in synchronous Ethernet

• US 20050265332A1
• Filed: 12/08/2004
• Published: 12/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Song, Jae-Yeon, Yoon, Jong-Ho, Kwon, Seo-Won, Lim, Se-Youn
• Granted Patent: US 7,433,353 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/389
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for constructing a frame of data for transmission by each Ethernet device in a synchronous Ethernet, which comprising the steps of receiving the data for transmission and confirming whether or not the data for transmission are synchronous data, when the received data are synchronous data, marking that the data are synchronous data in a preamble of the frame and constructing a synchronous frame by including the received data into a data portion of the frame which does not contain a MAC header and when the received data are asynchronous data, marking that the data are asynchronous data in the preamble of the frame and constructing an asynchronous frame by including the received data into a data portion of the frame containing a MAC header.

Claims

1. A method for constructing a frame of data for transmission by each Ethernet device in a synchronous Ethernet, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving the data for transmission and confirming whether or not the data for transmission are synchronous data, wherein

when the received data are synchronous data, marking the data as synchronous data in a preamble of the frame and constructing a synchronous frame by including the received data into a data portion of the frame which does not contain a MAC header; and

when the received data are asynchronous data, marking the data as asynchronous data in the preamble of the frame and constructing an asynchronous frame by including the received data into a data portion of the frame containing a MAC header.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the preamble includes a synchronous data flag field constructed by a predetermined number bits in order to mark the data.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the MAC header comprises a destination address field constructed using six bytes to indicate an MAC address of a destination to which the frame must be transmitted, a source address field constructed using six bytes to indicate an MAC address of a station transmitting the frame, and a length/type field constructed using two bytes to indicate length information of the data of the frame and a protocol type of the frame.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the preamble includes a frame start flag constructed using a predetermined number of bits, the frame start flag indicating a start of a transmission cycle of the synchronous Ethernet.

5. A method for enabling each Ethernet device to process inputted data in a synchronous Ethernet, the method comprising the steps of:

a) receiving the data by the Ethernet device and confirming whether or not each frame of the data is a synchronous frame;

b) when the frame is the synchronous frame, confirming whether or not a slot in the corresponding frame is a slot in which a slot routing path has been set for the Ethernet device;

c) when the slot in which the slot routing path has been set, transmitting the slot through a corresponding slot routing path, and when the slot is not a slot in which the slot routing path has been set, transmitting the slot to another Ethernet device through a physical layer of the Ethernet device; and

d) when the frame is an asynchronous frame, transmitting the corresponding frame to a MAC layer of the Ethernet device.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the step of confirming further comprises the step of:

examining a synchronous flag field in a frame preamble, wherein the flag field is in a first state to indicate synchronous data and a second state to indicate asynchronous data.

7. An apparatus in an Ethernet device for constructing a frame of data for transmission in a synchronous Ethernet format, the apparatus comprising:

a processor in communication with a memory, the processor executing code for;

receiving data for transmission;

determining whether data for transmission are synchronous data; and

marking in a preamble of the frame when the data are synchronous and constructing a synchronous frame by including the received data into a data portion of the frame which does not contain a MAC header.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the preamble includes a synchronous data flag field constructed using a predetermined number bits.

10. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the synchronous data flag is in a first state when the data is synchronous and in a second state when the data is asynchronous.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the MAC header comprises a destination address field constructed using six bytes to indicate an MAC address of a destination to which the frame must be transmitted, a source address field constructed using six bytes to indicate an MAC address of a station transmitting the frame, and a length/type field constructed using two bytes to indicate length information of the data of the frame and a protocol type of the frame.

12. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the preamble includes a frame start flag constructed using a predetermined number of bits, the frame start flag indicating a start of a transmission cycle of the synchronous Ethernet.

13. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, further comprising:

an input/output device in communication with the processor for receiving/transmitting the data.

14. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the code is stored in the memory.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the code is stored on a readable-medium readable by the processor.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the processor further executing code for:

marking in a preamble of the frame when the data are asynchronous data and constructing an asynchronous frame by including the received data into a data portion of the frame containing a MAC header.