Method of estimating a propagation delay difference of an optical link and apparatus for same

    公开(公告)号:US11368215B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-21

    申请号:US16768785

    申请日:2017-12-13

    IPC分类号: H04B10/077 H04B10/2513

    摘要: An optical link for a communication network, the optical link having an optical fibre link, a downstream transmitter, a downstream receiver, an upstream transmitter and an upstream receiver. The upstream and downstream transmitters are configured to transmit a respective pilot tone on a respective optical carrier and are configured to tune a frequency of the pilot tone within a preselected frequency range. The upstream and downstream receivers are configured respectively to determine an upstream notch frequency, fnotch-US, and a downstream notch frequency, fnotch-DS, of respective detected photocurrents from at least one respective pilot tone frequency at which the respective detected photocurrent is equal to or lower than a photocurrent threshold. The optical link also includes processing circuitry configured to receive the upstream and downstream notch frequencies and configured to estimate a propagation delay difference of the optical link depending on the upstream and downstream notch frequencies.

    Robust data replication among data centers

    公开(公告)号:US11314772B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-26

    申请号:US16605924

    申请日:2017-04-26

    摘要: A method of data replication between a first data center and a second data center, wherein the first data center has a data set to be replicated, the method comprising: determining (501) whether a first path from the first data center to the second data center is suitable for the data set to be replicated, by: transmitting (502) test data along the first path, taking (503) latency measurements for the test data along the first path; and determining a latency parameter of the first path using the latency measurements; and determining (504) if the latency parameter of the test data is less than a maximum latency threshold. If the latency parameter is less than the maximum latency threshold, the method performs (505) replication of the data set using the first path.

    Devices and Methods for Handling Precise Timing Protocol Frames

    公开(公告)号:US20220030530A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-27

    申请号:US17297802

    申请日:2019-10-15

    IPC分类号: H04W56/00 H04J3/06

    摘要: A method performed by a transmitting device, in a 3GPP wireless communication 5 system (100), for handling generalized Precise Timing Protocol (gPTP) signaling, from a Time Sensitive Network (TSN) is provided. The transmitting device receives (1301) a gPTP frame from the TSN network. The gPTP frame comprises time information, an indication of a time domain related to the time information and/or a Medium Access Control (MAC) address of a second end station connected to a receiving device. Based 10 on the indication of the time domain and/or the MAC address, the transmitting device determines (1302) the receiving device which the gPTP frame relates to. The transmitting device transmits (1304), to the determined receiving device, the gPTP frame in a PDU session related to the determined receiving device.

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING TIME-SENSITIVE SERVICES RELATED TO WIRELESS DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20210297965A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-23

    申请号:US17257542

    申请日:2018-07-02

    IPC分类号: H04W56/00

    摘要: A method performed by a system of a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method relates to provisioning of a time-sensitive service related to a wireless device. The wireless communication network comprises a plurality of antenna reference points, ARPs, of one or more radio access network nodes of the wireless communication network. The method comprises obtaining information that a first ARP and a second ARP of the plurality of ARPs are to provide the time-sensitive service to the wireless device, determining, by inter-ARP radio signalling between ARPs of one or more pairs of the plurality of ARPs, one of the one or more pairs including the first ARP and one of the one or more pairs including the second ARP, a relative timing error between the first ARP and the second ARP, and taking the determined relative timing error into consideration when providing the service to the wireless device.

    Multi-path time synchronization
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10355800B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-16

    申请号:US15523879

    申请日:2014-11-03

    摘要: The method comprises analyzing (203) probing packets sent on a plurality of end-to-end paths over links of the network. At least one analyzed probing packet is a timing packet comprising timing information for synchronization. The analyzing comprising analyzing probing packets sent on all of a set of probing paths. The set is selected (201) such that the analyzing provides a determination of a performance of each individual link. The method further comprises determining (204) the performance of individual links.