Method for data transmission via a packet-oriented communications network

• US 7,039,042 B1
• Filed: 12/13/1999
• Issued: 05/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Enterprise Systems Technologies S.a.r.l. (Atos SE)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Fraas, Wolfgang, Huenlich, Klaus, Nemeth, Karlo
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hanh
• Assistant Examiner(s): Elallam, Ahmed
• Application Number:
  US09/868,225
• Time in Patent Office: 2,332 Days
• Field of Search: 370/395.6, 370/395.61, 370/395.62, 370/395.65, 370/352, 370/353, 370/465, 370/473, 370/474
• US Class Current: 370/353
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/1611 Synchronous digital hierarchy [SDH] or SONET H04J3/1664 takes precedence for interactions with OTN
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/5658 using the AAL5
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/5663 Support of N-ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/5672 Multiplexing, e.g. coding, scrambling
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0478 Provisions for broadband connections

Abstract

A method for data transmission via a packet-oriented communications network, wherein, communications terminal devices are connected to the packet-oriented communications network via at least one transfer unit and a switching system. To transmit data between the switching system and the communications terminal devices, a time-slot-oriented data format is provided, which is formed from a periodic sequence of channel-specific information segments. For the transmission of data via the communications network, a user data area of a data packet used to transmit data via the communications network is subdivided into at least one first subpacket and into a second subpacket, data of a channel-specific information segment being transmitted in each case in the first subpackets.

Claims

1. A method for data transmission between two communications terminal devices via a packet-oriented communications network, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a time-slot-oriented data format, formed from a periodic sequence of channel-specific information segments, for the data transmission between the two communications terminal devices;

providing a data packet for the data transmission between the two communications terminal devices wherein the data packet includes a user data area;

subdividing the user data area into at least one first subpacket of a first length and into a second subpacket of a second length, wherein the at least one first subpacket includes a header with a segment identifier and a length identifier; and

transmitting data of the same channel-specific information segment in a respective one of the at least one first subpacket, wherein the at least one first subpacket is allocated by the segment identifier to the respective channel-specific information segment and the number of data transmitted in the respective at least one first subpacket is defined by the length identifier.

2. A method for data transmission between two communications terminal devices via a packet-oriented communications network as claimed in claim 1, the method further comprising the step of:

effecting the data transmission between the communications terminal devices and a switching system, the communications terminal devices being connected via at least one transfer unit to the packet-oriented communications network.

3. A method for data transmission between two communications terminal devices via a packet-oriented communications network as claimed in claim 1, the method further comprising the step of:

allocating each of the at least one first subpacket to the respective channel-specific information segment, the transmission of each of the at least one first subpacket being suppressible.

4. A method for data transmission between two communications terminal devices via a packet-oriented communications network as claimed in claim 1, the method further comprising the steps of:

transmitting dummy data in the second subpacket; and

selecting the length of the second subpacket such that a total length of the transmitted at least one first subpacket and the second subpacket corresponds to a length of the user data area of the data packet.

5. A method for data transmission between two communications terminal devices via a packet-oriented communications network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second subpacket is at least 8 bytes long.

6. A method for data transmission between two communications terminal devices via a packet-oriented communications network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the time-slot-oriented data format is a standardized IOM-2 data format.

7. A method for data transmission between two communications terminal devices via a packet-oriented communications network as claimed in claim 1, wherein data is transmitted via the packet-oriented communications network based on an Asynchronous Transfer Mode data format.

8. A method for data transmission between two communications terminal devices via a packet-oriented communications network as claimed in claim 7, wherein two-way conversion between the time-slot-oriented data format and the Asynchronous Transfer Mode data format is effected via a fifth Asynchronous Transfer Mode adaptation layer AAL5 agreement.

9. A method for data transmission between two communications terminal devices via a packet-oriented communications network as claimed in claim 7, wherein data to be transmitted between at least one communications terminal device and a switching system is transmitted via an existing dedicated connection between the switching system and an Asynchronous Transfer Mode transfer unit, via which the at least one communications terminal device is connected to the packet-oriented communications network.

10. A method for data transmission between two communications terminal devices via a packet-oriented communications network as claimed in claim 7, wherein data to be transmitted between at least one communications terminal device and a switching system is transmitted via a connection individually set up for the data transmission between the switching system and an Asynchronous Transfer Mode transfer unit, via which the at least one communications terminal device is connected to the packet-oriented communications network.