Method and device for processing access of user terminals in fixed access networks

• US 20110013529A1
• Filed: 04/02/2008
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Ma, Songwei, Bin, Fanxiang
• Application Number:
  US12/736,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20110013529A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2878 Access multiplexer, e.g. DSLAM generic distributed time multiplexers, e.g. TDM/TDMA H04J3/1694
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/5691 Access to open networks; Ingress point selection, e.g. ISP selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/788 Autonomous allocation of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/822 Collecting or measuring resource availability data

Abstract

Improvements are made to an access control equipment, a user-side equipment, and a user terminal through this invention. Wherein, the access control equipment obtains the resource condition of the link between itself and the user-side equipment, and provides it to each user terminal via the user-side equipment, for the convenience of the user terminal to perform the access point selection. Besides, the access control equipment further performs reasonable allocation for the resource in the link according to a predefined rule without depending on a quasi-static configuration of user.

Claims

1. A method, in an access control equipment in fixed access networks, of processing the access of user terminals, comprising:

a. obtaining first relating information for transmission capability between the access control equipment and each of one or more user-side equipment respectively;

b. informing corresponding user-side equipments of the obtained first relating information for transmission capability, said first relating information for transmission capability is to be provided by said user-side equipment for the user terminals dominated by the user-side equipment.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein, said at least one user-side equipment comprises at least one user-side equipment with user-side ports of a first type, said step a comprises:

a1. for each of the user-side equipments with user-side ports of the first type, determining the transmission resource, between the access control equipment and the user-side equipment, available for the traffic transmission of terminals of first type, so as to obtain a determining result of available resource;

a2. taking the determining result as said obtained first relating information for transmission capability.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein, said step a1 comprises:

a11. detecting the transmission resource, between the access control equipment and the user-side equipment, that has been used for the traffic transmission of already-accessed user terminals dominated by the user-side equipment, so as to obtain detection result of resource occupation;

wherein said accessed user terminals comprise accessed user terminals of the first type and/or accessed user terminals of a second type;

a12. determining the transmission resource, between the access control equipment and the user-side equipment, that hasn'"'"'t been used for the traffic transmission of already-accessed user terminals, according to the detection result of resource occupation and total transmission resource between the access control equipment and the user-side equipment, and taking the determined transmission resource as said determining result of available resource.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein, the method further comprises:

i. determining a first part of transmission resource and a second part of transmission resource from the total transmission resource between the access control equipment and the user-side equipment, according to a predefined rule, so as to generate indication information for indicating the first part of transmission resource and the second part of transmission resource;

wherein, said first part of transmission resource is to be used for the traffic transmission of at least one user terminal of the first type dominated by the user-side equipment, and

said second part of transmission resource is to be used for the traffic transmission of at least one user terminal of the second type dominated by the user-side equipment;

ii. providing said generated indication information for said user-side equipment.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein, said step i comprises:

i1. determining whether or not the user-side equipment dominates at least one already-accessed user terminal of the second type;

i2. detecting the sum of demanding resource of said at least one already-accessed user terminals of the second type, in case that the user-side equipment dominates at least one already-accessed user terminal of the second type;

i3. taking the detected sum of demanding resources of said at least one already-accessed user terminals of the second type as said determined second part of transmission resource;

i4. taking part or all of the transmission resource, in the total transmission resource between the access control equipment and the user-side equipment except for the second part of transmission resource, as said determined first part of transmission resource.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein, said step i further comprises:

i2′

. taking part or all of the total transmission resource between the access control equipment and the user-side equipment as said determined first part of transmission resource, in case that the user-side equipment does not dominate any already-accessed user terminal of the second type.

7. A method according to claim 2, wherein,

said user-side ports of the first type comprise user-side port of Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth;

said user terminals of the first type comprise user terminals communicating with said user-side equipment using Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth;

said user terminals of the second type comprise user terminals communicating with said user-side equipment by way of fixed lines.

8. A method, in a user-side equipment of fixed access networks, of assisting the processing of the access of user terminals, wherein, the method comprises:

I. obtaining first relating information for transmission capability provided by the access control equipment to which the user-side equipment belongs, said first relating information for transmission capability being used for indicating the transmission capability between the user-side equipment and the access control equipment;

II. providing the obtained first relating information for transmission capability for user terminals dominated by the user-side equipment.

10. A method according to claim 8, wherein, the method further comprises:

o. obtaining second relating information for transmission capability, said second relating information for transmission capability is used for indicating transmission resource, remaining in the user-side equipment, available for the communication with the dominated user terminals of the first type via the user-side port of the first type;

p. providing the second relating information for transmission capability for each user terminals of the first type dominated by the user-side equipment via the user-side port of the first type in the user-side equipment.

11. A method according to claim 8, wherein, the method further comprises:

obtaining indication information, provided by the access control equipment, which is used for indicating a first part of transmission resource and a second part of transmission resource;

wherein, said first part of transmission resource is to be used for transmitting between the access control equipment and the user-side equipment the traffic of at least one user terminal of the first type dominated by the user-side equipment, and

said second part of transmission resource is to be used for transmitting between the access control equipment and the user-side equipment the traffic of at least one user terminal of the second type dominated by the user-side equipment;

processing the traffic transmission with the user-side equipment according to the first part of transmission resource and the second part of transmission resource.

9. (canceled)

12. A method, in wireless user terminals, of conducting access with the assistance of at least one user-side equipment with wireless user-side ports, wherein, the method comprises:

u. obtaining first relating information for transmission capability and/or second relating information for transmission capability provided by the at least one user-side equipment with wireless user-side ports;

wherein, said first relating information for transmission capability is used for indicating the transmission capability between the corresponding user-side equipment and the access control equipment to which the user-side equipment belongs, and said second relating information for transmission capability is used for indicating the remaining transmission capability on the wireless user-side port of the corresponding user-side equipment;

v. selecting one from said at least one user-side equipment as the home user-side equipment to which the wireless terminal belongs, according to the obtained first relating information for transmission capability and/or second relating information for transmission capability;

w. generating an access requesting message that is used for requesting for access via the selected home user-side equipment;

x. sending said generated access requesting message to the home user-side equipment.

13. A method according to claim 12, wherein, the method further comprises a step before said step v:

detecting the quality of the radio signal between the wireless user terminal and each of the at least one user-side equipment, so as to generate a detection result of signal quality;

said step v further comprises;

selecting one from said at least one user-side equipment as the home user-side equipment to which the wireless terminal belongs, according to said detection result of signal quality and at least one of the obtained first relating information for transmission capability and second relating information for transmission capability.

14. A first processing device, in an access control equipment in fixed access networks, for processing the access of user terminals, comprising:

a first obtaining means, for obtaining first relating information for transmission capability between the access control equipment and each of at least one user-side equipment respectively, said first relating information for transmission capability being indicating the transmission capability between the access control equipment and the corresponding user-side equipment;

a first providing means, for informing corresponding user-side equipments of the obtained first indication information for transmission capability, said first indication information for transmission capability being to be provided by said user-side equipment for the user terminals dominated by the user-side equipment.

15-20. -20. (canceled)

21. An assisting processing device, in a user-side equipment of fixed access networks, for assisting the processing of the access of user terminals, comprising:

a second obtaining means, for obtaining first indication information for transmission capability provided by the access control equipment to which the user-side equipment belongs, said first relating information for transmission capability being used for indicating the transmission capability between the user-side equipment and the access control equipment;

a second providing means, for providing the obtained first relating information for transmission capability for user terminals dominated by the user-side equipment.

22-24. -24. (canceled)

25. An access device, in wireless user terminals, for conducting access with the assistance of at least one user-side equipment with wireless user-side ports, wherein, the device comprises:

a fourth obtaining means, for obtaining first relating information for transmission capability and/or second relating information for transmission capability provided by the at least one user-side equipment with wireless user-side ports;

wherein, said first relating information for transmission capability is used for indicating the transmission capability between the corresponding user-side equipment and the access control equipment to which the user-side equipment belongs, and said second relating information for transmission capability is used for indicating the remaining transmission capability on the wireless user-side port of the corresponding user-side equipment;

a means for selecting home, for selecting one from said at least one user-side equipment as the home user-side equipment to which the wireless terminal belongs, according to the obtained first relating information for transmission capability and/or second relating information for transmission capability;

a meaning for generating access request, for generating an access requesting message that is used for requesting for access via the selected home user-side equipment;

a meaning for sending access request, for sending said generated access requesting message to the home user-side equipment.

26. (canceled)