Pseudo-synchronization prevention method in SDH transmission mode, pseudo-synchronization preventing SDH transmission system, and transmitter-receiver in pseudo-synchronization preventing SDH transmission system

• US 6,256,326 B1
• Filed: 10/02/1998
• Issued: 07/03/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kudo, Shoji
• Primary Examiner(s): NGO, RICKY QUOC
• Application Number:
  US09/165,438
• Time in Patent Office: 1,005 Days
• Field of Search: 370/400, 370/408, 370/503, 370/509, 370/510, 370/511, 370/512, 370/513, 370/514, 370/515, 370/907, 375/354, 375/365, 375/369, 375/367, 375/368
• US Class Current: 370/512
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 2203/005 Terminal equipment, e.g. codecs, synch
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 2203/0089 Multiplexing, e.g. coding, scrambling, SONET
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/0608 Detectors therefor, e.g. correlators, state machines
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/0623 Synchronous multiplexing systems, e.g. synchronous digital hierarchy/synchronous optical network (SDH/SONET), synchronisation with a pointer process

Abstract

In a terminal apparatus to which an SDH transmission mode is applied, there is a method including a pseudo-synchronization detecting step of detecting, by one transmitter-receiver, that a pseudo-synchronization state is established by finding in data the same pattern as a synchronization pattern in byte information, a pseudo-synchronization posting step of inserting, by the one transmitter-receiver, information to the effect that the pseudo-synchronization state is established in an overhead of an STM frame, and posting the information to the other transmitter-receiver, and a changed synchronization pattern transmitting step of changing a synchronization pattern into an additional synchronization pattern different from the synchronization pattern in the byte information, and transmitting the synchronization pattern obtained by the change from the other transmitter-receiver to the one transmitter-receiver. Thus, it is an object of the present invention to easily prevent pseudo-synchronization by posting the message to the effect that the pseudo-synchronization state is established to an opposite terminal apparatus by using the overhead of the STM frame such that the opposite terminal apparatus can change the synchronization pattern in the byte information.

Claims

1. A pseudo-synchronization prevention method in an SDH transmission mode, the method comprising:

when a data transmission is made in the SDH transmission mode between a first transmitter-receiver and a second transmitter-receiver opposed to each other by using predetermined byte information in a VC path in an STM frame;

a pseudo-synchronization detecting step of detecting, by a receiver in one transmitter-receiver of the first transmitter-receiver and the second transmitter-receiver, that a pseudo-synchronization state is established by finding the same pattern as a synchronization pattern in the byte information;

a pseudo-synchronization posting step of, when establishment of the pseudo-synchronization state is detected in the pseudo-synchronization detecting step, causing a transmitter in the one transmitter-receiver to insert information to the effect that the pseudo-synchronization state is established in an overhead of the STM frame, and posting the information to a receiver in the other transmitter-receiver of the first transmitter-receiver and the second transmitter-receiver;

and a changed synchronization pattern transmitting step of, when the establishment of the pseudo-synchronization state is posted to the receiver in the other transmitter-receiver in the pseudo-synchronization posting step, changing a synchronization pattern into an additional synchronization pattern different from the synchronization pattern in the byte information, and transmitting the synchronization pattern obtained by the change from a transmitter in the other transmitter-receiver to the receiver in the one transmitter-receiver.

2. A pseudo-synchronization prevention method in an SDH transmission mode according to claim 1, further comprising an alarm generating step of giving an alarm when a pseudo-synchronization state is still detected in the pseudo-synchronization detecting step though a synchronization pattern is changed and transmitted a predetermined number of times in the changed synchronization pattern transmitting step.

3. A pseudo-synchronization preventing SDH transmission system comprising:

a first transmitter-receiver and a second transmitter-receiver opposed to each other for a data transmission made by using predetermined byte information in a VC path in an STM frame,

wherein a byte information receiving apparatus in one transmitter-receiver of the first transmitter-receiver and the second transmitter-receiver is provided with a pseudo-synchronization detecting unit to detect that a pseudo-synchronization state is established by finding the same pattern as a synchronization pattern in the byte information;

an STM frame transmitting apparatus in the one transmitter-receiver being provided with a pseudo-synchronization posting unit to, when the pseudo-synchronization detecting unit detects that the pseudo-synchronization state is established, insert information to the effect that the pseudo-synchronization state is established in an overhead of the STM frame, and post the information to an STM frame receiving apparatus in the other transmitter-receiver of the first transmitter-receiver and the second transmitter-receiver;

the STM frame receiving apparatus in the other transmitter-receiver being provided with a pseudo-synchronization posting information receiving unit to receive the information to the effect that the pseudo-synchronization state is established, posted from the pseudo-synchronization posting unit; and

a byte information transmitting apparatus in the other transmitter-receiver being provided with a synchronization pattern changing unit to change a synchronization pattern into an additional synchronization pattern different from the synchronization pattern in the byte information, and a changed synchronization pattern transmitting unit to transmit the synchronization pattern obtained by the change in the synchronization pattern changing unit to the byte information receiving apparatus in the one transmitter-receiver.

4. A pseudo-synchronization preventing SDH transmission system according to claim 3, wherein the pseudo-synchronization detecting unit comprises a plurality of counters to detect the synchronization pattern in the byte information or an additional synchronization pattern identical with the synchronization pattern with phases mutually shifted, and an arithmetic logic unit to perform arithmetic logic processing depending upon results of pattern detection in the counters so as to detect that the pseudo-synchronization state is established.

5. A pseudo-synchronization preventing SDH transmission system according to claim 4, further comprising an alarm generating unit to give an alarm when the pseudo-synchronization state is still detected in the pseudo-synchronization detecting unit though the changed synchronization pattern transmitting unit changes and transmits the synchronization pattern a predetermined number of times.

6. In an SDH transmission system having a transmitter-receiver to make a data transmission to an additional opposite transmitter-receiver by using predetermined byte information in a VC path in an STM frame in an SDH transmission mode,

a transmitter-receiver in a pseudo-synchronization preventing SDH transmission system, the transmitter-receiver comprising:

an STM frame receiving apparatus to make a reception in a layer of the STM frame, and a byte information receiving apparatus connected to the STM frame receiving apparatus to receive predetermined byte information in the VC path of an order lower than that of the STM frame; and

a byte information transmitting apparatus to transmit byte information of the same layer as that of the byte information, and an STM frame transmitting apparatus connected to the byte information transmitting apparatus to make a transmission in the layer of the STM frame,

wherein the byte information receiving apparatus is provided with a pseudo-synchronization detecting unit to detect that a pseudo-synchronization state is established by finding the same pattern as a synchronization pattern in predetermined byte information in a VC path in an STM frame received through the STM frame receiving apparatus, and

the STM frame transmitting apparatus being provided with a pseudo-synchronization posting unit to, when the pseudo-synchronization detecting unit detects that the pseudo-synchronization state is established, insert information to the effect that the pseudo-synchronization state is established in an overhead of the STM frame, and post the information to an STM frame receiving apparatus in an additional opposite transmitter-receiver.

7. A transmitter-receiver in a pseudo-synchronization preventing SDH transmission system according to claim 6, further comprising an alarm generating unit to give an alarm when the pseudo-synchronization state is still detected in the pseudo-synchronization detecting unit though the synchronization pattern transmitted from the additional transmitter-receiver is changed a predetermined number of times.

8. In an SDH transmission system having a transmitter-receiver to make a data transmission to an additional opposite transmitter-receiver by using predetermined byte information in a VC path in an STM frame in an SDH transmission mode, a transmitter-receiver in a pseudo-synchronization preventing SDH transmission system, the transmitter-receiver comprising:

an STM frame receiving apparatus to make a reception in a layer of the STM frame, and a byte information receiving apparatus connected to the STM frame receiving apparatus to receive predetermined byte information in the VC path of an order lower than that of the STM frame; and

a byte information transmitting apparatus to transmit byte information of the same layer as that of the byte information, and an STM frame transmitting apparatus connected to the byte information transmitting apparatus to make a transmission in the layer of the STM frame,

wherein the STM frame receiving apparatus is provided with a pseudo-synchronization posting information receiving unit to receive information to the effect that the pseudo-synchronization state is established from an additional opposite transmitter-receiver; and

the byte information transmitting apparatus being provided with a synchronization pattern changing unit to change a synchronization pattern into an additional synchronization pattern different from the synchronization pattern in the byte information, and a changed synchronization pattern transmitting unit to transmit the synchronization pattern obtained by the change in the synchronization pattern changing unit to an additional opposite transmitter-receiver.