System and method for the communication of operation and maintenance, administration and provisioning information over an asynchronous transfer mode network
First Claim
1. A cellular telephone communications system accessing an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) transport network, comprising:
- a plurality of base stations effectuating radio frequency communications with subscriber mobile stations;
a base station concentrator connected to the plurality of base stations;
a first and second access nodes connected to the ATM transport network;
a first communications link connecting the base station concentrator and the first access node of the ATM transport network;
a transport network management system;
a second communications link connecting the transport network management system to the second access node of the ATM transport network;
wherein the base station concentrator and each first and second access node include interfaces for communicating voice information over the first communications link using a communications bit stream that includes an embedded operation channel carrying system operation and maintenance information for delivery to and from the transport network management system; and
wherein each first and second access node includes means for converting between the communications bit stream carried over the communications link and ATM cells carried over the ATM transport network.
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Abstract
To support communications system repairability, a scalable multi-level data bit stream, capable of supporting variable bandwidth ATM network access, includes an embedded operation channel used by a transport network management system to support connection maintenance, performance monitoring, path tracing, service management and testing functionalities. The transport network management system effectuates a service specific convergence sub-layer functionality to convert between Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) formatted operation and maintenance managed objects and a message format for the embedded operation channel data. The conversion comprises a Remote Operations Service Element (ROSE) encapsulation, with the encapsulated data incorporated within the embedded operation channel of the multi-level data bit stream. An interface is provided with the ATM network through an ATM adaptation layer to segment the multi-level data bit stream into a plurality of ATM cells. Operation and maintenance message communication with the transport network management system is provided for both wireless and wireline communications systems accessing the ATM network.
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35 Claims
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1. A cellular telephone communications system accessing an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) transport network, comprising:
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a plurality of base stations effectuating radio frequency communications with subscriber mobile stations; a base station concentrator connected to the plurality of base stations; a first and second access nodes connected to the ATM transport network; a first communications link connecting the base station concentrator and the first access node of the ATM transport network; a transport network management system; a second communications link connecting the transport network management system to the second access node of the ATM transport network; wherein the base station concentrator and each first and second access node include interfaces for communicating voice information over the first communications link using a communications bit stream that includes an embedded operation channel carrying system operation and maintenance information for delivery to and from the transport network management system; and wherein each first and second access node includes means for converting between the communications bit stream carried over the communications link and ATM cells carried over the ATM transport network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A telephone communications system accessing an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) transport network, comprising:
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a telephone exchange; a first and second access node connected to the ATM transport network; a first communications link connecting the telephone exchange and the first access node; a transport network management system; a second communications link connecting the transport network management system to the second access node of the ATM transport network; wherein the telephone exchange and each first and second access node include interfaces for communicating voice information over the first communications link using a communications bit stream that includes an embedded operation channel carrying system operation and maintenance information for delivery to and from the transport network management system; and wherein each first and second access node includes means for converting between the communications bit stream carried over the communications link and ATM cells carried over the ATM transport network. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A telephone communications system accessing an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) transport network, comprising:
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a plurality of wireline telephone terminals; a concentrator connected to the plurality of wireline telephone terminals; a first and second access node connected to the ATM transport network; a first communications link connecting the concentrator and the first access node; a transport network management system; a second communications link connecting the transport network management system to the second access node of the ATM transport network; wherein the concentrator and each first and second access node include interfaces for communicating voice information over the first communications link using a communications bit stream that includes an embedded operation channel carrying system operation and maintenance information for delivery to and from the transport network management system; and wherein each first and second access node includes means for converting between the communications bit stream carried over the communications link and ATM cells carried over the ATM transport network. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A communications system, comprising:
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a first node; a second node; a communications link connecting the first and second nodes; and a transport network management system connected to the first node, the transport network management system comprising; a transport network management server including a manager functionality and a managed information base, the transport network management server processing common management information protocol (CMIP) formatted operation and maintenance data; an encapsulator connected to the transport network management server for encapsulating the CMIP formatted operation and maintenance data within a remote operations service element (ROSE) encapsulation; and an embedded operation channel controller connected to the encapsulator to format the ROSE encapsulated CMIP formatted operation and maintenance data into an embedded operation channel data format for transmission to the first node, the controller further connected to the transport network management server to determine information therefrom for inclusion in formatting the embedded operation channel; wherein the first and second nodes include interfaces for communicating voice information over the communications link using a bit stream basic block comprising a plurality of communications channels and an embedded operation channel carrying system operation and maintenance information for delivery to and from the transport network management system. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A transport network management system connected over a communications link to a communications network, the system comprising:
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a transport network management server including a manager functionality and a managed information base, the transport network management server processing common management information protocol (CMIP) formatted operation and maintenance data; an encapsulator connected to the transport network management server for encapsulating the CMIP formatted operation and maintenance data within a remote operations service element (ROSE) encapsulation; an embedded operation channel controller connected to the encapsulator to format the ROSE encapsulated CMIP formatted operation and maintenance data into an embedded operation channel data format for transmission over the communication link, the controller further connected to the transport network management server to determine information therefrom for inclusion in formatting the embedded operation channel format; and a node of the network connected to the communications link and including a handler functionality for inserting and extracting the embedded operation channel formatted operation and maintenance information into and from an embedded operation channel of a bit stream basic block also including a plurality of communications channels. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35)
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