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WO1999051002A1 - Configuration de communication destinee a la connexion d'un terminal de communication a des services de differents reseaux de communication - Google Patents

Configuration de communication destinee a la connexion d'un terminal de communication a des services de differents reseaux de communication Download PDF

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WO1999051002A1
WO1999051002A1 PCT/DE1999/000752 DE9900752W WO9951002A1 WO 1999051002 A1 WO1999051002 A1 WO 1999051002A1 DE 9900752 W DE9900752 W DE 9900752W WO 9951002 A1 WO9951002 A1 WO 9951002A1
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Karl-Ulrich Stein
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Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • H04L69/16—Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • H04L69/08—Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
    • H04L69/085—Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion specially adapted for interworking of IP-based networks with other networks
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • H04L69/16—Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
    • H04L69/169—Special adaptations of TCP, UDP or IP for interworking of IP based networks with other networks 
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • H04L69/18—Multiprotocol handlers, e.g. single devices capable of handling multiple protocols

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  • additional packet-oriented services such as, for example, the Internet service are implemented with the aid of transmission units, the information to be transmitted being transported in a frequency range which lies outside the frequency range provided for the telephone transmission.
  • Such transmission methods are known in the art as ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) - or HDSL (High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line) or as VDSL (Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line) transmission method, with a collective term xDSL transmission method for all such transmission methods is defined - see ntz, volume 7, 1997, pp. 68, 89 "Faster through the wire with xDSL techniques".
  • These transmission techniques use the known modulation methods such as TDM (T ⁇ me Division Multiplex) - or FDM (Frequency Division Muliplex) - and has also been using the multicarrier method for some time.
  • additional communication terminals - in particular processor-controlled communication terminals such as, for example, personal computers or video or multimedia communication terminals - are made available to different communication networks - for example the Internet or packet switching networks Use of different services - for example Internet service or packet switching service - connected.
  • packet-oriented transmission protocols are preferably provided for the transmission of the digital information.
  • the object on which the invention is based is to be seen in reducing the economic outlay for the joint connection of telephone communication terminals and predominantly packet-oriented communication terminals to communication networks for the use of their services.
  • the object is achieved by the features of claim 1.
  • the essential aspect of the communication arrangement according to the invention is to be seen in the fact that in each case a communication unit arranged on the communication terminal and communication network side and connected by a transmission medium for realizing a bidirectional bit transport system and in each case a communication terminal device and communication network unit connected to the transmission unit to implement a uniform Internet protocol for the bidirectional transmission of all to be transmitted 3 telnden Internet and non-Internet-service-specific ⁇ In formations between a communication terminal and at least ⁇ a Interworkmg-Emheit is provided.
  • adaptation means in the communication terminal for protocol-compliant adaptation of non-Internet service-specific information formed and processed in the communication terminal area and in the communication network-side interworking units are means for recognizing the non-Internet-specific information and hiding them from the transmitted information and means for inserting non-Internet-specific information in accordance with the Internet protocol are provided for the information to be transmitted.
  • a significant advantage of the inventive communica ⁇ tion arrangement is the fact that only a single bit transport system and a single packet-oriented Ubermitt- development protocol, the Internet protocol is provided that allows the information to be information of all communication terminals for connected to a transmission medium different communication networks and their services are transmitted to a first branch or traffic concentration point of a feeder network for the communication networks.
  • the information to be transmitted from a plurality of connecting lines or communication terminals connected to them can be transmitted using the uniform Internet protocol, with the branching point branching the information to be transmitted or summarizing the information to be transmitted into the different or from the different communication networks.
  • the economic outlay for the transmission of information from different communication devices connected to a transmission medium - for example a wire-bound connecting line - to different communication networks, in particular to a first branch point in a feeder network for the different communication 4 networks can be significantly reduced.
  • different services for example, Internet, Inter ⁇ net-fax and Internet telephony service - m
  • a communication terminal - for example, a personal computer or m a multimedia TV - is bringing to the information of the different services to a stream of information without additional effort in the communication terminal is possible, since these functions are already implemented by the Internet function available in the communication terminal.
  • the bit transport system can advantageously be configured as an adaptive bit transport system for realizing adaptive transmission bit rates, the transmission bit rate being set such that a permissible error rate is not exceeded Connection line determined the maximum transmission speed, adjusted and used by the communication terminals connected to the connection line.
  • the adaptively determined transmission speed can be set, for example, as the maximum permissible transmission bit rate.
  • the relevant communication terminals are program-technical means for implementing adaptation means for adapting non-Internet service-specific ones that are formed and to be processed in the area of communication terminals Information provided to the Internet protocol - Claim 3.
  • This Internet protocol-based merging and processing or separating of non-Internet information takes place particularly advantageously with the aid of a personal computer, to which the non-Internet service-specific information is based on a protocol - 5 kollanpassung ticali by a Voice over Internet service and / or a facsimile over internet service and / or egg ⁇ ne data transmission over Internet service according to the ⁇ chen Internet protocol are transmitted - Claim 4.
  • can be transmitted in the the information jewei ⁇ time Internet services-specific services are assigned part and transmitted to the Internet protocol or are generally transmitted as data with the Internet protocol.
  • the interworking units are provided with means for forwarding or delivering the non-Internet service-specific information to or from analog and / or digital narrowband communication networks and / or broadband communication which implement the respective services - Networks and means for forwarding or delivering Internet service-specific information to or from the Internet - Claim 5 -, narrowband communication networks in particular the telephone network and the ISDN and broadband communication network in particular the Internet and video Represent distribution networks.
  • the telephone or fax signal is adapted to the interprotocol or the respective service and transmitted to or from the corresponding narrowband communication network.
  • the digital telephone or fax signal is transmitted with the aid of the voice via the Internet or the Internet fax service or as a general data signal from the at least one communication terminal via the transmission medium to the branch point.
  • a communication interface with a communication protocol customary for personal computers is provided between the protocol unit and the transmission unit - claim 6.
  • Such communication interfaces provide in particular the USB (Universal Serial Bus) - and one Ethernet lOBaseT interface. 6 advantageously is such Kirkationsterrorismstelle out ⁇ staltet that a plurality of communication terminals are connected - to claim 7.
  • bus interfaces such as Ethernet or lifting interfaces.
  • the transmission medium can be realized by a wired or optical connection line or by a radio transmission link - claim 8, wherein the transmission units are to be matched to the transmission medium used.
  • the known transmission methods such as the DECT or CDMA transmission method, can be used for radio links.
  • Interworkmg routers represent the branching points in a feeder network for different communication networks.
  • the components can also be integrated m apron devices of feeder networks or m communication systems of the connected communication networks.
  • the Interworkmg units are assigned at least one server for realizing sub-service functions - claim 10, the servers advantageously being used to implement an e-mail function and / or an answering machine function for the voice Internet service or the facsimile service are configured. Claim 11. Further functions are, for example, conversion functions between different services or answering machine functions for others 7 Services such as packet switching service or telephone service, which is not realized via the voice over Internet service.
  • the at least one server in the router is advantageously connected via the switching matrix or directly to the Interworkmg unit - claim 12. When connecting to the switching matrix, the server can be used by different components of the router due to the routing function. If the server is directly connected to a component of the router, the respective server only supports this component.
  • the block diagram representatively shows one of several
  • Communication terminals KE which is realized by a personal computer PC.
  • a telephone function FE a facsimile function FX and an Internet function INT are provided in addition to the known functions of a personal computer PC.
  • the telephone function FE is not implemented as part of the Internet function INT and the facsimile function FX as part of the Internet function INT - indicated in the block diagram in the illustrated rectangle KE by dashed lines.
  • the telephone function FE is realized as a non-Internet function - for example as in the conventional telephone network - and the facsimile function FX is implemented by facsimile over the Internet.
  • the faximile function FX uses the Internet protocol IP or an Internet sub-protocol.
  • the telephone function FE is bidirectionally adapted with the aid of a protocol adaptation unit PA with regard to the protocol from, for example, the conventional telephone network to the Internet-specific protocol or subprotocol Voice over Internet.
  • the Internet protocol IP is implemented in a protocol unit PE in the personal computer PC.
  • FX, INT are the information 1 to be transmitted, ie telephone information fe, facsimile information fx and Internet information int to the protocol unit PE or from there to the respective functions FX, INT or to the protocol adaptation unit PA transmitted - shown in the block diagram by a dotted line with arrows on both sides and labeled fe, fx or int.
  • a transmission unit UE is provided in the personal computer or outside of the personal computer PC, by means of which a bit transport system BTS is implemented on the communication terminal side.
  • the transmission unit UE is connected via a connecting line ASL - predominantly a two-wire connecting line ASL - to a similarly implemented transmission unit UE, which is arranged in a router R.
  • the two transmission units UE and the connecting line ASL form a bit transport system BTS, which is provided for the bit-synchronous transmission of digital information.
  • the router R can accommodate several transmission units UE, a transmission unit UE being provided for each connected communication terminal KE.
  • the transmission units UE are each followed by a protocol unit PE, which, like the protocol unit PE of the personal computer PC, is implemented in the Internet protocol IP.
  • the protocol units PE and an interworking unit IWU (SB) for connection to a narrowband communication network SK and an interworking unit IWU (BK) for connecting to a broadband communication network BK are connected to a central switching network SW .
  • This central switching network SW represents a branch point VZP, via which all service-specific information such as telephony information fe, facsimile information fx and Internet information int from and to the communication terminals KE and from and to the narrowband communication network SK and broadband communication network BK im uniform Internet protocol IP are conveyed.
  • This central switching network SW is connected to the packet-oriented Internet protocol IP 9 adapted, that is, a packet-oriented switching network SW is provided.
  • the service-specific information fe, fx, int to be transmitted is transmitted with the aid of packets p in which the switching-related information is contained in the packet header.
  • these packet headers contain information that identifies the respective packets as a telephone service (Voice over Internet) - or as a facsimile service (Faximile over Internet) - or as an Internet packet service (INT) packets p.
  • Such an identification drawing is carried out in accordance with the Internet protocol IP in the communication terminal KE or in the personal computer PC and, in accordance with this identification, the respective packets p are either in the protocol unit PE arranged in the router R to the interworking unit IWU (SK), IWU ( BK) for the narrowband communication network SK or the broadband communication network BK.
  • the packets p transmitted by the interworking units IWU (SK), IWU (BK) are transmitted to those protocol units PE to whose connected communication terminals KE the respective packets p are to be transmitted.
  • the transmission is carried out as a function of the switching information contained in the packet headers - not shown - that is, the switching information that is required for targeted switching to the relevant protocol unit PE is derived from the specified switching information.
  • both a protocol-based and an adaptation of the transmission speeds is carried out.
  • a speed adjustment is carried out for the transmitted telephony information fe - for example a transmission speed of 2 Mbit / s on the connection line ASL to a transmission speed of 64 kbit for an ISDN Narrowband communication network ISDN - and a protocol conversion provided for this purpose - 10 from the Internet protocol IP or from the Internet subprotocol Voice over Internet to the ISDN narrowband protocol of the ISDN - carried out.
  • the telephone function FE em implemented in or outside the communication terminal KE having the corresponding telephone protocol for an analog telephone network PSTN.
  • the broadband communication network BK represents the internet communication network IN.
  • the packets p transmitted with the Internet protocol IP with the contained faximile and Internet information fx, int are forwarded to the Internet IN unchanged or received and unchanged via the respective protocol unit PE and the bit transport system BTS be forwarded to the communication terminal KE.
  • the invention is not limited to these two Interworkmg units IWU, but other conversions can be provided on, for example, narrowband communication networks SK, such as other analog or digital telephone networks, or on other broadband communication networks BK, such as packet communication networks or video distribution networks.
  • narrowband communication networks SK such as other analog or digital telephone networks
  • BK broadband communication networks
  • functions corresponding to the communication terminals are to be implemented.
  • the block diagram also shows a server S, which is also connected to the central switching network SW.
  • Answering machine functions ANP or e-mail functions EM can be implemented in such a server S.
  • the answering machine function ANP is provided in particular for the telephone service FE and the facsimile service FX, since in the case of an inactive communication terminal KE - for example 11 se with the power supply switched off - accessibility of the respective communication terminal device KE must be guaranteed.
  • the e-mail function EM represents, in particular, a storage function with which incoming e-mails are buffered. If the KE communication terminal is active, the temporarily stored e-mails can be called up.
  • a single communication terminal KE is connected to a connection line ASL, the connection to the transmission unit UE being made via a communication interface KSS, which is implemented, for example, by a USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface USB.
  • a communication interface KSS which is implemented, for example, by a USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface USB.
  • several communication terminals KE can be connected, in each of which a service FE, FX, INT is implemented.
  • the telephone service FE can be implemented by a separate communication terminal KE.
  • the communication interface KSS is designed, for example, as a bus interface Ethernet IOBaseT (10B), which is suitable for the connection of a plurality of communication terminals KE.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un système de transport de bits (BTS) bidirectionnel créé entre un terminal de communication (KE) et les réseaux de communication (SK, BK) et par lequel on transmet, à l'aide du protocole Internet (IP) uniforme et orienté paquets, des informations (fe, fx, int) spécifiques Internet et spécifiques non Internet adaptées au protocole. Côté réseau de communication, les informations spécifiques Internet et spécifiques non Internet (fe, fx, int) sont séparées par des unités d'interfonctionnement (IWU), éventuellement adaptées au protocole et transmises aux ou envoyées des réseaux de communication concernés (SK, BK).
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