Radio link network and a method for transferring additional services in a radio link network

• US 6,490,272 B1
• Filed: 11/29/1993
• Issued: 12/03/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Eriksson, Karl Örjan
• Primary Examiner(s): Olms, Douglas
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOM, SHICK C
• Application Number:
  US08/158,520
• Time in Patent Office: 3,291 Days
• Field of Search: 370/95.3, 370/60, 370/94.1, 370/61, 370/84, 370/62, 370/63, 370/58.2, 370/60.1, 370/94.3, 370/110.1, 370/458, 370/389, 370/394, 370/428, 370/232, 370/349, 370/259, 370/260, 370/370, 370/315, 370/352, 370/522, 379/63, 379/58, 375/3, 455/33.1, 455/54.1, 455/54.2
• US Class Current: 370/349
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/00 Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field H04B10/00, H04B15/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2643 using time-division multiple access [TDMA] H04B7/2615, H04B7/2618 take precedence

Abstract

A radio link network and a method for transferring, in addition to commercial traffic, other traffic as information from a number of additional services. The radio link network comprises several radio link stations and the information is transferred in a number of channels (2). The information from the additional services is transferred in a common channel. (3) adapted to transfer different types of additional services (4, 5, 6). The information transferred in the common channel between a starting point and an ending point is not terminated in intermediate radio link stations.

Claims

1. In a radio link network in which information is transferred in a plurality of channels and which comprises a plurality of radio link stations, a method of transferring other traffic, in addition to commercial traffic, the other traffic being information from a number of various types of network operator support services which provide operational support, comprising the step of;

transferring the network operator support services in a common channel able to transfer a number of various types of network operator support services information;

splitting the information from the additional services into packets after physical and electrical adaptation to the radio link network, and

transferring the packets from the various additional services in the common channel during different time intervals;

wherein the information from the network operator support services is transferred in the common channel between a starting radio link station and an ending radio link station through at least one intermediate radio link station without being terminated or adapted in an intermediate radio link station.

2. A radio link network in which information is transferred in a plurality of channels, comprising:

a plurality of radio link stations in which, in addition to regular commercial traffic, other traffic in the form of information from a number of various types of network operator support services which provide operational support is transferred from a starting radio link station through at least one intermediate radio link station to an ending radio link station without being terminated or adapted in on intermediate radio link station,

wherein the radio link stations each include;

a terminating unit, at a starting radio link station for a particular network operator support service among the network operator support services, for physically and electrically adapting the information from the respective additional service to the radio link network and for splitting that information into packets;

a controller for bringing packets from the various types of network operator support services together in a common channel arranged in each radio link station, the common channel being for transferring information of the various types of network operator support services; and

a terminating unit, at an ending radio link station for the particular network operator support service among the network operator support services, for converting the information to a predetermined physical and electrical format.

3. The radio link network of claim 2, wherein the packets from the various additional services are transferred in the common channel during different time intervals.

4. The radio link network of claim 2, wherein, when two of the radio link stations are connected via a permanent cable network, the transfer of the common channel between the radio link stations is made via a local information bus using a common cable between the two radio link stations.

6. The radio link network of claim 2, wherein the common channel is not pre-allocated to any one particular type of support service.

9. The radio link network of claim 2, wherein the network operator support services information provides operational support and maintenance for the operator equipment and services for communication between operators.

5. In a radio link network in which information is transferred in a plurality of channels and which comprises a plurality of radio link stations, a method of transferring other traffic, in addition to commercial traffic, the other traffic being information from a number of various types of network operator support services which provide operational support, comprising the step of:

transferring the network operator support services in a common channel able to transfer a number of various types of network operator support services information, wherein the step of transferring further comprises converting tie various types of network operator support services into packets for transfer in the common channel, wherein the common channel is not allocated to any one particular type of support service;

wherein the information from the network operator support services is transferred in the common channel between a starting radio link station and an ending radio link station through at least one Intermediate radio link station without being terminated or adapted in an intermediate radio link station.

7. In a radio link network in which information is transferred in a plurality of channels and which comprises a plurality of radio link stations, a method of transferring other traffic, in addition to commercial traffic the other traffic being information from a number of various types of network operator support services which provide operational support, comprising the step of:

transferring the network operator support services in a common channel able to transfer a number of various types of network operator support services information;

wherein the information from the network operator support services is transferred in the common channel between a starting radio link station and an ending radio link station through at least one intermediate radio link station without being terminated or adapted in an intermediate radio link station, and wherein the network operator support services information provides operational support and maintenance for the operator equipment and services for communication between operators.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the network operator support services information is provided intermittently.