In-building wired/wireless convergence apparatus and resource allocation method thereof

• US 9,648,614 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2013
• Issued: 05/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KT Corporation
• Original Assignee: KT Corporation
• Inventors: Kim, Hyung-Jung, Kwak, Do-Young, Lee, Jong-Sik, Pyun, Sung-Yeop
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): BHATTI, HASHIM S
• Application Number:
  US14/443,713
• Publication Number:
  US 20150327264A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,383 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/125 by balancing the load, e.g. traffic engineering
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/16 Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames

Abstract

A wired/wireless convergence apparatus may be provided for integrally transmitting wired network traffic and wireless network traffic in an in-building cloud network composed of a plurality of digital units and a plurality of radio units includes. The wired/wireless convergence apparatus may include a traffic monitoring unit and a wired/wireless traffic control unit. The traffic monitoring unit may be configured to monitor wireless network traffic and wired network traffic input to the in-building cloud network. The wired/wireless traffic control unit may be configured to allocate wireless network traffic resources to optical fibers on the basis of monitored information of the traffic monitoring unit and to allocate wired network traffic to idle resources remaining after allocation of the wireless network traffic.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, having encoded thereon program code, wherein when the program code is executed by a machine, the machine implements a method of integrally transmitting wired network traffic and wireless network traffic in an in-building cloud network composed of a plurality of digital units and a plurality of radio units, the method comprising:

monitoring wireless network traffic and wired network traffic input to the in-building cloud network; and

allocating wireless network traffic to optical fiber resources based on the monitored information and allocating wired network traffic to idle optical fiber resources remaining after allocation of the wireless network traffic.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the monitoring comprises monitoring wireless network traffic received from digital units and wired network traffic received from an external wired network.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the monitoring comprises monitoring wireless network traffic received from wireless terminals and wired network traffic received from wired terminals.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the allocating comprises allocating wireless network traffic resources and wired network traffic to each frame, wherein frames are allocated to a time domain resources while sharing a bandwidth of an optical fiber.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the the allocating comprises allocating wireless network traffic resources based on a variation in wireless network traffic monitored by the traffic monitoring unit.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the allocating comprises allocating wireless network traffic resources based on the monitored information and configuration information of the in-building cloud network.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the allocating comprises allocating predetermined resources for wireless network traffic of each communication operator based on the configuration information including the number of communication operators accommodated by the in-building cloud network.

8. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the allocating comprises allocating wireless network traffic resources based on the configuration information including a radio unit mode, wherein the radio unit mode includes at least one of a sector mode and a relay mode.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the allocating comprises allocating wireless network traffic resources based on the configuration information including information representing whether or not compression transmission is used.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the allocating comprises allocating resources for a corresponding wired service to the idle resources based on a priority of wired services.

11. A method for allocating resources of optical fibers by a wired/wireless convergence apparatus in an in-building cloud network composed of a plurality of digital units and a plurality of radio units, the method comprising:

monitoring wireless network traffic and wired network traffic input to the in-building cloud network;

allocating wireless network traffic to optical fiber resources based on the monitored information; and

allocating wired network traffic to idle optical fiber resources remaining after allocation of wireless network traffic.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the monitoring of wireless network traffic and wired network traffic comprises performing one of monitoring wireless network traffic received from a digital unit and wired network traffic received from an external wired network and monitoring wireless network traffic received from wireless terminals and wired network traffic received from wired terminals, according to the location of the wired/wireless convergence apparatus.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the allocating of wireless network traffic resources comprises determining whether the wireless network traffic varies based on the monitored information and allocating the wireless network traffic resources.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the allocating of wireless network traffic resources comprises allocating wireless network traffic resources based on the monitored information and configuration information of the in-building cloud network, the configuration information affecting the quantity of wireless network traffic.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the configuration information includes at least one of the number of communication operators accommodated by the in-building cloud network, a radio unit mode and information representing whether or not compression transmission is used.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the allocating of wired network traffic comprises allocating resources for the corresponding wired service to the idle resources based on a priority of wired services.