Transport Frame Structure for Retransmission in DSL

• US 20100185791A1
• Filed: 12/23/2009
• Published: 07/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ikanos Communications Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Ikanos Communications Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pons, Julien D., Sorbara, Massimo, Alloin, Laurent Francis, Lambi, Ravindra M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,463,955 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0045 Arrangements at the receiver end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/009 arrangements specific to transmitters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/18 Automatic repetition systems, e.g. Van Duuren systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/062 using different frequency bands for speech and other data

Abstract

Included are embodiments for retransmission in a digital subscriber line environment. At least one embodiment of a method includes framing data into transport frames, each transport frame carrying payload data that is viewed differently according to the computing layer in which it is transported; transporting the transport frames over a first computing layer, the payload data of each transport frame corresponding to an integer number Q of elementary cells of the first computing layer, an integer number of header bytes containing information specific to the transport frame, and an integer number of padding bytes; and transporting the transport frames over a second computing layer, the payload data content of each transport frame corresponding to payload data of an integer number M of elementary cells of the second computing layer.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

framing data into transport frames, each transport frame carrying payload data that is viewed differently according to the computing layer in which it is transported;

transporting the transport frames over a first computing layer, the payload data of each transport frame corresponding to an integer number Q of elementary cells of the first computing layer, an integer number of header bytes containing information specific to the transport frame, and an integer number of padding bytes; and

transporting the transport frames over a second computing layer, the payload data content of each transport frame corresponding to payload data of an integer number M of elementary cells of the second computing layer,

wherein a number of padding bytes is determined such that a total number of bytes contained in the payload of the second computing layer M elementary cells equals a total number of bytes contained in the header bytes plus padding bytes plus Q elementary cells of the first computing layer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the elementary cell of the first computing layer is an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell containing 53 bytes.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the elementary cell of the first computing layer is a 65 bytes fragment from a packet transfer mode (PTM) protocol.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second computing layer elementary cell is a forward error correction (FEC) codeword, formed by payload and redundancy bytes, wherein the redundancy bytes are generated from the payload bytes of a common cell.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein payload data in the second computing layer is a scrambled version of the payload data in the first computing layer.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein padding bytes contain one or more dummy bytes, wherein the dummy bytes carry no useful information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein padding bytes contain one or more non-dummy bytes, wherein the non-dummy bytes carry information that is useful at at least one of the following:

a transmitter side and a receiver side.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the non-dummy padding bytes contain one or more bytes configured for facilitating detection of erroneous frames.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the bytes configured for facilitating detection of erroneous frames contain cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information.

10. A system, comprising:

a transmitter side device that includes;

a first computing layer transporting first layer transport frames, the first layer transport fames including payload data, the payload data of each transport frame corresponding to an integer number Q of elementary cells of the first computing layer, an integer number of header bytes containing information specific to the transport frame, and an integer number of padding bytes, and

a second computing layer transporting second format transport frames, the payload data content of each second format transport frame corresponding to an integer number M of elementary cells of the second computing layer,

wherein a number of padding bytes is determined such that the total number of bytes contained in the payload of the second computing layer M elementary cells equals the total number of bytes contained in the header bytes plus padding bytes plus Q elementary cells of the first computing layer.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein padding bytes contain one or more dummy bytes, wherein the dummy bytes carry no useful information.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein padding bytes contain one or more non-dummy bytes, wherein the non-dummy bytes carry information that is useful at at least one of the following:

a transmitter side and a receiver side.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the transport frame structure includes one or more padding bytes configured for facilitating detection of erroneous frames.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the bytes configured for facilitating detection of erroneous frames carrying cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein a number, location in the transport frame, and type of padding bytes is at least partially indicated by a receiver side.

16. A system, comprising:

a receiver side device that includes a data receiving component configured to receive data from a transmitter side device, the data including one or more retransmission transport frame structures being received over a second computing layer, then over a first computing layer, each transport frame including payload data that is viewed differently according to the layer in which it is transported,

wherein on the second computing layer, payload data content of the transport frame corresponds to payload data of an integer number M of elementary cells of the second computing layer,

wherein on the first computing layer, the payload data content of the transport frame carries an integer number Q of elementary cells of the first computing layer, an integer number of header bytes containing information specific to the transport frame, and an integer number of padding bytes, and

wherein a number of padding bytes is determined such that a total number of bytes contained in the payload of the second computing layer M elementary cells equals the total number of bytes contained in the header bytes plus padding bytes plus Q elementary cells of the first computing layer.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein padding bytes contain one or more non-dummy bytes, wherein the non-dummy bytes carry information that is used by the receiver.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the transport frame structure includes one or more padding bytes configured for facilitating error detection.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the bytes configured for facilitating detection of erroneous frames carrying cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein a number, location in the transport frame, and type of padding bytes to insert in each transport frame are at least partially indicated to a transmitter side.