Digital signal transmission apparatus

• US 5,515,362 A
• Filed: 12/14/1994
• Issued: 05/07/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Iwase, Ryoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hsu, Alpus H.
• Application Number:
  US08/358,615
• Time in Patent Office: 510 Days
• Field of Search: 370/13, 370/16, 370/16.1, 370/24, 370/54, 370/55, 370/94.1, 370/94.2, 370/100.1, 370/102, 370/105.2, 370/105.3, 370/108, 375/362, 375/363, 375/371, 375/375, 371/47.1, 371/49.1, 371/49.3, 395/181, 395/182.01, 395/182.02, 340/825.01, 340/825.03, 340/826, 340/827, 340/825.06, 340/825.14, 340/825.16, 340/825.18
• US Class Current: 370/228
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/10 Adding special bits or symbols to the coded information, e.g. parity check, casting out 9's or 11's
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2002 where interconnections or communication control functionality are redundant flexible arrangements for bus networks involving redundancy H04L12/40176
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 2203/006 Fault tolerance and recovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/0623 Synchronous multiplexing systems, e.g. synchronous digital hierarchy/synchronous optical network (SDH/SONET), synchronisation with a pointer process
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/14 Monitoring arrangements for SDH/SONET rings H04J3/085

Abstract

A digital signal transmission apparatus having a synchronous digital hierarchy interface having duplex channels is disclosed which prevents, when a code error occurs in a working channel, transmission of the signal including the code error to an apparatus connected at the next stage. The digital signal processing apparatus includes a pair of code error detection sections provided for the working channel and a protection channel each for detecting presence or absence of a code error of a virtual container signal in units of a frame using a result of calculation of a bit interleaved parity, and a frame memory provided for each of the working channel and the protection channel for delaying a signal, for which detection by the code error detection section has been performed, by one frame and outputting the delayed signal to a phase synchronizing section. A selector is switched in units of a frame in response to results of code error detection of a frame by the code error detection sections to extract one of a pair of outputs of the phase synchronization section.

Claims

1. A digital signal processing apparatus, comprising:

a pair of supervisory circuits for individually supervising a pair of receive signals from a working channel and a protection channel;

a phase synchronization section for synchronizing the phases of frames and bits of the receive signals from said working channel and said protection channel and outputting the receive signals in a same phase;

a selector for selectively outputting one of the signals from said phase synchronization section;

a selector control circuit for selecting, when an abnormal condition detection signal is sent out from one of said supervisory circuits, the receive signal from a normal one of said supervisory circuits to said selector;

code error detection means provided for each of said working channel and said protection channel for detecting presence or absence of a code error of a virtual container signal in units of a frame using a result of calculation of a bit interleaved parity; and

a frame memory provided for each of said working channel and said protection channel for delaying a signal, for which detection by said code error detection means has been performed, by one frame and outputting the delayed signal to said phase synchronizing section;

said selector control section including means for switching said selector in units of a frame in response to results of code error detection of a frame by said code error detection means.

2. A digital signal transmission apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said selector control section switches said selector to said protection transmission line side when the result of detection of said code error detection means of said working channel side indicates presence of a code error, but does not switch said selector when the results of detection of said code error detection means of both of said working channel side and said protection channel side indicate presence of code errors.

3. A digital signal transmission apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said code error detection means includes a section overhead trailing end detection section for detecting a trailing end of a section overhead, a pointer processing section for processing a pointer of a virtual container signal, and an error detection section for calculating a bit interleaved parity of the virtual container signal in units of a frame and comparing the calculated bit interleaved parity with a result of calculation of a next frame to detect a code error.