CA2142460A1 - Apparatus and method for conveying information in a communication network - Google Patents
Apparatus and method for conveying information in a communication networkInfo
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Abstract
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING
INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK
Abstract of the Disclosure A direct sequence code-division multiple access (DS CDMA) communication system schedules conveyance of blocks (400) of information such that the blocks arrive at a base-site (130) just-in-time for transmission during a discrete frame (301-305) of an air-interface. The DS CDMA communication system implements both circuit switching and packet switching approaches to provide trunking efficiencies while balancing between system loading constraints and time delay of blocks (400) during conveyance.
INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK
Abstract of the Disclosure A direct sequence code-division multiple access (DS CDMA) communication system schedules conveyance of blocks (400) of information such that the blocks arrive at a base-site (130) just-in-time for transmission during a discrete frame (301-305) of an air-interface. The DS CDMA communication system implements both circuit switching and packet switching approaches to provide trunking efficiencies while balancing between system loading constraints and time delay of blocks (400) during conveyance.
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Field of ~e InYention The invention relates generally to communication networks and more specifically to conveying information in 10 communication networks.
Background of ~e Invention A cellular radiotelephone nehvork generally comprises a plurality of mobile stations in radio communication with a plurality of base-sites, ~oupled to a base-site controller, and a p~urality of base site controllers coupled to a mobile switching -- ~
center. I~e~e may be a plurality of mobile switching centers. l~e ~ ~-coupling means is generally via bi-tirectional miowave or wireline terrestrial-based circuits such as Tl ISDN links. Many channels of individual subscriber information are generally ;
commuI~icated over each of these links.
While the links generally employ a serial digital physical - 2 5 connection, logical circuits are created to carry individual channels of subs~iber information. There are two traditional techniques -utili~ed to ~eate the logical medium partitioning - arcuit and packet sw~tching.
Circuit switching is the ~aaditional technique utilized. In a i~
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Field of ~e InYention The invention relates generally to communication networks and more specifically to conveying information in 10 communication networks.
Background of ~e Invention A cellular radiotelephone nehvork generally comprises a plurality of mobile stations in radio communication with a plurality of base-sites, ~oupled to a base-site controller, and a p~urality of base site controllers coupled to a mobile switching -- ~
center. I~e~e may be a plurality of mobile switching centers. l~e ~ ~-coupling means is generally via bi-tirectional miowave or wireline terrestrial-based circuits such as Tl ISDN links. Many channels of individual subscriber information are generally ;
commuI~icated over each of these links.
While the links generally employ a serial digital physical - 2 5 connection, logical circuits are created to carry individual channels of subs~iber information. There are two traditional techniques -utili~ed to ~eate the logical medium partitioning - arcuit and packet sw~tching.
Circuit switching is the ~aaditional technique utilized. In a i~
3 0 circuit switching arrangement, each logical circuit is allocated a cons~ant portion of the total bandwidth of the circuit. The multiplexing technique is typically time division multiple access (TDMA). I~e serial digital stream is multiplexed to allocate each circl~it a certain number of bits per second in a predetermined way.
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A typical T1 circuit provides approximately 1.544 megabit/s of serial binary info~nation. A typical logical partitioning is into 5 24 individual PCM circuits of 64 kilobits per second each.
Physically, eight bits frorn each circuit is, in turn, sent sequen~ially.
Alternatively, the T1 circuit m~ay be logically partitioned into 48 individual ADPCM circ ~its of 32 kilobit/s each. Physically, four bits from each ADPCM arcuit is, in turni sent sequen~ally.
An alternate technique to circuit switching is packet swi~ching. In packet switching, ir~ormation from each of the individual sources is buf~ered by a paclcet con~roller. In a predetem~ined way, is~formation is ~ansmitted in blocks using the full bandwidth of the aralit. Information blocks are encoded 1~ along with certain con~ol and addressing lnformation, allowing a packet conholler receiving the packet the capability to properly recons~ruct the individual logical channel's information.
The above techniques are traditionally utilized in digital cellular radiotelephone communication ne~works. Such networks 20 have air interfaces which multiplex information from several-users onto a single radio frequency ~R~) resource (i.e., a channel).
Por example, in a time division multiplexed (TDM) system, information from several users share a common RF channel, but are transmitted in bursts, where information from each user is 2 5 ` sequenced in time. An alternative implementation utilizes direct sequence code division multip;e access (DS CDMA). In this case, all users share at the same 'dme an RF channel and each user's data stream is distinguished by encoding it with a unique code.
Use of this code at the receiver allows discrimination of one user 3 0 from another.
All the above networks are slotted or framed. In such networks, information from a use~ is sent in blocks. For example, speech is coded in sampled blocks, generally consisting of about 20 msec of information. This information is coded into a block of -,.,' ., .,~, ~ .~ .
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information that is transn~itted over an air interface. At the receiver, the blocks are decoded to create an adequate representation of the original analog sample waveform.
Delay is a co~runon problem for all varieties of networ~s. It S is desirable to minimize the introduced time delays since excess delay reduces perceived qua3ity and burdens the ability of echo cancellation circuits to eliminate the effects. l~erefore, cellular radiotelephone communication networks incorporating circuit switching incorporate provisions to adjust the timing of an 10 interface means so that information is received just at the moment it is needed for transmission over the air interface Tradi'donal packet switching of individual circui~s is not amenable to ~aditional delayvcontrol and mini~s~ization procedures.
A problem with arcuit switching is that it generally takes 20 15 ms to send ~e sampled block of speech. That is, each 20 ms block of info~mation is bit-by-bit tim~division multiplexed onto the individual PCM circ-~it or broken into small sub blocks which in turn are time-division multiplexed onto the individual PCM
circuit. The receive end must buffer the received bits until the 2 0 entire 20 ms block is received and only then may further processmg,commence.
A problem arises in organizing the switching resource when the bandwidth of an individual logical circuit is not fixed. Such is the case, for example with the DS CDMA air interface specification 2 5 recently standardized by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIAi as document IS 95. This interface utili2es a va~iable rate speech vocoding system, stand~rdized as TIA
do~nent IS 96, w}~ch encodes 20 msec blocks of speech at rates of 8, 4, 2 or 1 kilobit/s. The speech is determined to minimize ~e 3 0 average rate but ensure that adequate speech quality is provided.
Furthermore, timing of each logical circuit's transmitted blocks may be staggered with respect to each other. In this DS CDMA
implementation, a circuit switching approach allows for trunking efficiencies when communicating information for indiYidual 2~42~0 users. A packet switching approach must also allou for trunking ef~iciencies when communicating information for individual users.
Thus a need esasts for a cellular radiotelephone network having the benefits of both circuit and packet switched interface techniques while mitigating time delay introduced by these in~erface techniques.
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FIG. 1 gener~lly depicts a commuI~ication network which -`
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Detailed Descraption of a Preferred Embodiment ,;: . '' , In a cellular radiotelephone network, frame timing is implemented by an interface means related to the discrete frame offse~ timing produced by a base-site at an air interface such that informa~ion ~:ransferred by thle interface means is subssantially aligned with infonna~don to be conveyed by the bas~site. Stlch alignment minimizes circ~t complexi~;es required in processors at the interface means, which in turn controls the likelihood of information being lost between the various elements of the ne~work.
FIG. 1 genera!l y depic~s a co~ununication ne~work which may beneficially employ the present invention. In the prefeaTed embodiment, the communications network is a code division 1~ mul~ple access (CDMA) oellular radiotelephone network having bas~stations 130-134 coupled to an Mobile Switching Center (MSC) lZ0. MSC 120 serves as an interface means between a local public switched telephone network (PSIN) and base-stations 130-134 of ~e CDMA network. As shown in ~:IG. 1, a mobile station 125 2 0 communicates with a serving bas~station, which is illustrated in PIG. 1 as base-station 130. While this invention has utility for both directions of communications between the MSC and the bas~
stations, only the downlink direction, from MSC to base-station, is described.
2 5 Information to base-station 130 intended for mobile station 125 is conveyed via link 110, which in the preferred em~odiment is a Tl llnk. In the preferred embodirnent, the information may either voice (speech) or data infonnation. ~IG. 2 generally depicts ~e framillg fonnat of a T1 link 110 utilized to convey inlfonnation 3 0 f~om MSC 120 to base stations 13~134. As depicted in FIG. 2, each T1 frame 200, which represents frame timing of Tl link 11û, compri~es one T1 frame synchronization bit 230 and a subsequent 192 bits of data. Traditionally, 24 message channels 201-224 are sent sequen~ally in each T1 frame. Each message channel represents : .
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data for one "conversation" and comprises 8 bits bl-b8 where bl is the least significant bit and b8 is the most significant bit. The bit rate per message channel is 64 Kbit/s. The T1 frame rate is 8000 frames per second.
FIG. 3 generally illustrates a CDMA network conveying information via an air interface having framed downlink communications at a rate of 20 msec per frame. In the preferred embodiment, the MSC 120 contains, inter alia, a vocoder 3~5, switching hardware 320 coupled to the PSTN, and a processor 312.
10 In future cellular radiotelephone network embodiments, the vocoder 315 may be physically separate from the MSC 120.
Contim~irlg, the vocoder 315 is used to compress voice data from the PSTN, via switching hiardware 320, into packets of compressed voice data which.can be transferred over T1 link 110. Vocoder 315 15 has the ur~que capability of ooding speech at variable rates, where the instantaneous rate is dependent on the number of bits the vocoder deter~s~ines are required to achieve a desired quiality level.
Therefore, the packets of compressed voice data are of variable length.
The CDMA air interface provides means such that the frame boundaries for the discrete frames for different users may be offset relative to one another. As depicted in FIG. 5, each disaete frame 301-305 (only discrete ~rame 301 is shown for purposes of simplicity) is staggered (or offset in time) on a 1.25 msec (out of 20 msec) basis producing 16 distinct time offsets for frame start.
Important to note is that all mobile stations have a common refèrence time, delayed only by a transrnission time from a base-station to a mobile station. In the preferred embodiment, each discrete frame 301-305 contains coded vocoder information~that 3 0 describes 20 msec of speech, and is itself 20 milliseconds (msec) in length.
In CDMA networlcs, use of traditional circuit switching in switching hardware 320 increases the bulk delay of information significiantly. This d~lay may be reduced by implementing a padcet .,,, ,..~ "", .. ..
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2 ~ 0 switch in switching hardware 320, but full implementation of a packet switch is complex and not consistent with typical architecture of a CDMA network. To reduce the delay without greatly altering the architecture and maintaining compati~ility with the current plafform, a tim~slotted Tl (with possibly some reserved bandwidth for circl~it switched or control use) for use in the GDMA network is utilized in accordarlce with the invention.
Basically, T1 link 110 is synch:ronized to the discrete frames of ~e CDMA air interface which, as mentioned previously, may be 1 0 staggered (or offset in time) on a 1.25 msec (out of 20 msec) basis as depicted in ~:IG. 5. Consequently, instead of allocating continuous message channels, the full basldwit~ of Tl link 110 is restructured to prs~vide, inter alia, the stated synchronization. Thus, a full 20 msec wor~ of in~ormation no longer takes 20 msec to transmit (as 15 with a conventiorlal circuit switched message channel) but only 1.25 msec. In this manner, introduced delay is substantially redu~ed.
PIG. 4 generally depicts a restructured T1 link 110 in accordance with the inventis)n. FIG. 4 depicts a 193 bit T1 fram2 20 (T1 frame 200 of PIG. 2) which begins with a 1-bit T1 frame synchr~nization field and which traditionally would have been followed by 24 8-bit fields representing 24 channels of 64 Kbit/s pulse code modulation (PCM) data. Instead of transferring individualized T1 frames in the PCM format, however, T1 link 110 2 ~ is restructused by grouping 1`1 frames into a block 400 of N T1 frames and appending a header 403 to every Nth frame. ln ~e pr~ferred embodiment, the Tl frames are grouped into a bloclc 400 of 10 Tl frames, and a 54 bit header 403 is appended to every 10th frame. Pollowing header 403 is CDMA information 406 in the 3 0 form of data packets. Important to note is that Cl:lMA information 406 bridges over the T1 frame synchronization bit 230 for each T1 frame T:2-1`10.
Header 403 consists of a 20-bit synchronizatiQn field, a ~bit #_of_CDMA_frames field and up to 16 CDMA frame length , :~
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bits, ~us spacing for only 10 CDMA frames is guaranteed. Even when the #_of_CDMA_frame!s field is selected to be 16, ~o have a predetermined number of vocoders, for example 10 or ~ore 5 vocoders transmitting frames at a given (full) rate out of 16 total, is quite rare. In this scenario, p,rovision can be made at processor 312 to prevent a vocoder, for example vocoder 315, from transmitting full rate when there is likelihood of overflow of the link such 2s if there are 9 other ~ocoders 'aansmitting full rate. In this manner, 10 bloclking over Tl link 110 i~ substan~dally mitigated. Alte~atively, the #_of_CDMA_frames field may be prohibited from exceeding 10, ~us guaranteeing that blocking on Tl link 110 will not occur.
It is desired that a block 400 (i.e., a packet~ transmitted by vocoder 315 arri.ve at base-site 130 in a compressed voice format at 15 a partia~lar time with respect to dis~ete frames 301-305~ To aecomplish this, block 400 is scheduled to arrive at the base-site just~ time for it to be ~ansmit~ed during its assigned offset frame in accordance with the invention. This is performed by MSC 120 first measuring the transmission delays between vocoder 315 and 2 0 bas~site 130 to which it is coupled and also measuring a signal processing time associated with bas~site 130. MSC 120 then adjusts the timing of vocoder 315 to account for the measured delays as well as the particular frame offset assigned to the individual circuit. In this manner, just-in-time scheduling of 2 ~ block 400 for transmission during a particular discrete frame 301-30~ is accomplished.
Scheduling in the above manner can also be utilized to level the load amongst assigned offsets of the disaete frames for the ùr-interface~ This ensures that associated blocks 4~0, each 3 0 corresponding to one or more offsets of the air-interface, are not overloaded when mobile station 125 is handed off to another cell~
It is recognized that many different T1 restructurings are possiblle which provide the packet blocks in alternate configurations. For example, it is recognized that there may be a - `,~ . ' .,.~. ~-',., , ,` ': ' - ' 21~2~SO
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FIG. 6 generally depicts an alternate embodiment of data packet multiplexing onto a T1 link in accordance u~ith the invention.
PIG. 6 depicts a Tl restructuring whi~ indudes 3 circuit switched 32 Kbit/s message channels ~06, and is but one of many possible T1 restructurings that may be performed based on system requirements.
As stated above, a circuit switching approach allows for 10 trunking effiaencies in a DS CDMA ~o~rununication system. One such approach is described in the instant assignee's pending U.S.
application Ser. No. 997,997 filed on December 28, 1992, entitled "Method and Apparatus for Transferring Data in a Communica~ion System," invented by Michael J. Bach and 15 William R Bayer, and incorporated herein by reference. Due to, certain characterist;cs of t}~e DS CDMA coIrunur~ication system (or example, inter alia, loading c~aracteristics), the approach described in Bach may at times be preferable (based on efficiency, for example) to the invention described herein. Consequently, O provision may be made in processor 312, vocoder 315 and link termination 322 to comrert T1 link 110, at an appropriate time, from the packet suritching arrangement described herein in accordance with the invention to the circuit sw~tched T1 approach of Bach, and vice versa. Conversion may take place one 25 individual circuit at a time. In its optimum configuration to balance be~.~reen system loading and time delay minimization in ~ne DS CDMA communication system, the DS CDMA
communication system may employ a time-shared combination of circuit/padcet switching by providing appropriate prqvisions in 3 0 processc~r 312, vocoder 315 and link termination 322.
While the invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to a particular embo~iment and an alternate embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled ~ ~e 21~2~
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A typical T1 circuit provides approximately 1.544 megabit/s of serial binary info~nation. A typical logical partitioning is into 5 24 individual PCM circuits of 64 kilobits per second each.
Physically, eight bits frorn each circuit is, in turn, sent sequen~ially.
Alternatively, the T1 circuit m~ay be logically partitioned into 48 individual ADPCM circ ~its of 32 kilobit/s each. Physically, four bits from each ADPCM arcuit is, in turni sent sequen~ally.
An alternate technique to circuit switching is packet swi~ching. In packet switching, ir~ormation from each of the individual sources is buf~ered by a paclcet con~roller. In a predetem~ined way, is~formation is ~ansmitted in blocks using the full bandwidth of the aralit. Information blocks are encoded 1~ along with certain con~ol and addressing lnformation, allowing a packet conholler receiving the packet the capability to properly recons~ruct the individual logical channel's information.
The above techniques are traditionally utilized in digital cellular radiotelephone communication ne~works. Such networks 20 have air interfaces which multiplex information from several-users onto a single radio frequency ~R~) resource (i.e., a channel).
Por example, in a time division multiplexed (TDM) system, information from several users share a common RF channel, but are transmitted in bursts, where information from each user is 2 5 ` sequenced in time. An alternative implementation utilizes direct sequence code division multip;e access (DS CDMA). In this case, all users share at the same 'dme an RF channel and each user's data stream is distinguished by encoding it with a unique code.
Use of this code at the receiver allows discrimination of one user 3 0 from another.
All the above networks are slotted or framed. In such networks, information from a use~ is sent in blocks. For example, speech is coded in sampled blocks, generally consisting of about 20 msec of information. This information is coded into a block of -,.,' ., .,~, ~ .~ .
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information that is transn~itted over an air interface. At the receiver, the blocks are decoded to create an adequate representation of the original analog sample waveform.
Delay is a co~runon problem for all varieties of networ~s. It S is desirable to minimize the introduced time delays since excess delay reduces perceived qua3ity and burdens the ability of echo cancellation circuits to eliminate the effects. l~erefore, cellular radiotelephone communication networks incorporating circuit switching incorporate provisions to adjust the timing of an 10 interface means so that information is received just at the moment it is needed for transmission over the air interface Tradi'donal packet switching of individual circui~s is not amenable to ~aditional delayvcontrol and mini~s~ization procedures.
A problem with arcuit switching is that it generally takes 20 15 ms to send ~e sampled block of speech. That is, each 20 ms block of info~mation is bit-by-bit tim~division multiplexed onto the individual PCM circ-~it or broken into small sub blocks which in turn are time-division multiplexed onto the individual PCM
circuit. The receive end must buffer the received bits until the 2 0 entire 20 ms block is received and only then may further processmg,commence.
A problem arises in organizing the switching resource when the bandwidth of an individual logical circuit is not fixed. Such is the case, for example with the DS CDMA air interface specification 2 5 recently standardized by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIAi as document IS 95. This interface utili2es a va~iable rate speech vocoding system, stand~rdized as TIA
do~nent IS 96, w}~ch encodes 20 msec blocks of speech at rates of 8, 4, 2 or 1 kilobit/s. The speech is determined to minimize ~e 3 0 average rate but ensure that adequate speech quality is provided.
Furthermore, timing of each logical circuit's transmitted blocks may be staggered with respect to each other. In this DS CDMA
implementation, a circuit switching approach allows for trunking efficiencies when communicating information for indiYidual 2~42~0 users. A packet switching approach must also allou for trunking ef~iciencies when communicating information for individual users.
Thus a need esasts for a cellular radiotelephone network having the benefits of both circuit and packet switched interface techniques while mitigating time delay introduced by these in~erface techniques.
Brief Description of ~e Drawings ` -~
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FIG. 1 gener~lly depicts a commuI~ication network which -`
may beneficially employ the present invention. `
~:IG. 2 generally depicts the framing format of; a T1 link 15 utilized to convey information from an MSC to bas~stations.
FIG. 3 generally illustrates a CDMA network conveying`- - ~ `~
informa~don via an zir interface having disete frame ofhet timing. ``~` ` h FIG. 4 generally depicts data packet multiplexing onto a T1 2 0 link in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 5 generally depicts staggering of discrete ~rames on a ` ` `
1.25 msec (out of 20 msec) basis producing 16 distinct time offsets for frame start. ` ~ ~
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Detailed Descraption of a Preferred Embodiment ,;: . '' , In a cellular radiotelephone network, frame timing is implemented by an interface means related to the discrete frame offse~ timing produced by a base-site at an air interface such that informa~ion ~:ransferred by thle interface means is subssantially aligned with infonna~don to be conveyed by the bas~site. Stlch alignment minimizes circ~t complexi~;es required in processors at the interface means, which in turn controls the likelihood of information being lost between the various elements of the ne~work.
FIG. 1 genera!l y depic~s a co~ununication ne~work which may beneficially employ the present invention. In the prefeaTed embodiment, the communications network is a code division 1~ mul~ple access (CDMA) oellular radiotelephone network having bas~stations 130-134 coupled to an Mobile Switching Center (MSC) lZ0. MSC 120 serves as an interface means between a local public switched telephone network (PSIN) and base-stations 130-134 of ~e CDMA network. As shown in ~:IG. 1, a mobile station 125 2 0 communicates with a serving bas~station, which is illustrated in PIG. 1 as base-station 130. While this invention has utility for both directions of communications between the MSC and the bas~
stations, only the downlink direction, from MSC to base-station, is described.
2 5 Information to base-station 130 intended for mobile station 125 is conveyed via link 110, which in the preferred em~odiment is a Tl llnk. In the preferred embodirnent, the information may either voice (speech) or data infonnation. ~IG. 2 generally depicts ~e framillg fonnat of a T1 link 110 utilized to convey inlfonnation 3 0 f~om MSC 120 to base stations 13~134. As depicted in FIG. 2, each T1 frame 200, which represents frame timing of Tl link 11û, compri~es one T1 frame synchronization bit 230 and a subsequent 192 bits of data. Traditionally, 24 message channels 201-224 are sent sequen~ally in each T1 frame. Each message channel represents : .
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data for one "conversation" and comprises 8 bits bl-b8 where bl is the least significant bit and b8 is the most significant bit. The bit rate per message channel is 64 Kbit/s. The T1 frame rate is 8000 frames per second.
FIG. 3 generally illustrates a CDMA network conveying information via an air interface having framed downlink communications at a rate of 20 msec per frame. In the preferred embodiment, the MSC 120 contains, inter alia, a vocoder 3~5, switching hardware 320 coupled to the PSTN, and a processor 312.
10 In future cellular radiotelephone network embodiments, the vocoder 315 may be physically separate from the MSC 120.
Contim~irlg, the vocoder 315 is used to compress voice data from the PSTN, via switching hiardware 320, into packets of compressed voice data which.can be transferred over T1 link 110. Vocoder 315 15 has the ur~que capability of ooding speech at variable rates, where the instantaneous rate is dependent on the number of bits the vocoder deter~s~ines are required to achieve a desired quiality level.
Therefore, the packets of compressed voice data are of variable length.
The CDMA air interface provides means such that the frame boundaries for the discrete frames for different users may be offset relative to one another. As depicted in FIG. 5, each disaete frame 301-305 (only discrete ~rame 301 is shown for purposes of simplicity) is staggered (or offset in time) on a 1.25 msec (out of 20 msec) basis producing 16 distinct time offsets for frame start.
Important to note is that all mobile stations have a common refèrence time, delayed only by a transrnission time from a base-station to a mobile station. In the preferred embodiment, each discrete frame 301-305 contains coded vocoder information~that 3 0 describes 20 msec of speech, and is itself 20 milliseconds (msec) in length.
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2 ~ 0 switch in switching hardware 320, but full implementation of a packet switch is complex and not consistent with typical architecture of a CDMA network. To reduce the delay without greatly altering the architecture and maintaining compati~ility with the current plafform, a tim~slotted Tl (with possibly some reserved bandwidth for circl~it switched or control use) for use in the GDMA network is utilized in accordarlce with the invention.
Basically, T1 link 110 is synch:ronized to the discrete frames of ~e CDMA air interface which, as mentioned previously, may be 1 0 staggered (or offset in time) on a 1.25 msec (out of 20 msec) basis as depicted in ~:IG. 5. Consequently, instead of allocating continuous message channels, the full basldwit~ of Tl link 110 is restructured to prs~vide, inter alia, the stated synchronization. Thus, a full 20 msec wor~ of in~ormation no longer takes 20 msec to transmit (as 15 with a conventiorlal circuit switched message channel) but only 1.25 msec. In this manner, introduced delay is substantially redu~ed.
PIG. 4 generally depicts a restructured T1 link 110 in accordance with the inventis)n. FIG. 4 depicts a 193 bit T1 fram2 20 (T1 frame 200 of PIG. 2) which begins with a 1-bit T1 frame synchr~nization field and which traditionally would have been followed by 24 8-bit fields representing 24 channels of 64 Kbit/s pulse code modulation (PCM) data. Instead of transferring individualized T1 frames in the PCM format, however, T1 link 110 2 ~ is restructused by grouping 1`1 frames into a block 400 of N T1 frames and appending a header 403 to every Nth frame. ln ~e pr~ferred embodiment, the Tl frames are grouped into a bloclc 400 of 10 Tl frames, and a 54 bit header 403 is appended to every 10th frame. Pollowing header 403 is CDMA information 406 in the 3 0 form of data packets. Important to note is that Cl:lMA information 406 bridges over the T1 frame synchronization bit 230 for each T1 frame T:2-1`10.
Header 403 consists of a 20-bit synchronizatiQn field, a ~bit #_of_CDMA_frames field and up to 16 CDMA frame length , :~
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bits, ~us spacing for only 10 CDMA frames is guaranteed. Even when the #_of_CDMA_frame!s field is selected to be 16, ~o have a predetermined number of vocoders, for example 10 or ~ore 5 vocoders transmitting frames at a given (full) rate out of 16 total, is quite rare. In this scenario, p,rovision can be made at processor 312 to prevent a vocoder, for example vocoder 315, from transmitting full rate when there is likelihood of overflow of the link such 2s if there are 9 other ~ocoders 'aansmitting full rate. In this manner, 10 bloclking over Tl link 110 i~ substan~dally mitigated. Alte~atively, the #_of_CDMA_frames field may be prohibited from exceeding 10, ~us guaranteeing that blocking on Tl link 110 will not occur.
It is desired that a block 400 (i.e., a packet~ transmitted by vocoder 315 arri.ve at base-site 130 in a compressed voice format at 15 a partia~lar time with respect to dis~ete frames 301-305~ To aecomplish this, block 400 is scheduled to arrive at the base-site just~ time for it to be ~ansmit~ed during its assigned offset frame in accordance with the invention. This is performed by MSC 120 first measuring the transmission delays between vocoder 315 and 2 0 bas~site 130 to which it is coupled and also measuring a signal processing time associated with bas~site 130. MSC 120 then adjusts the timing of vocoder 315 to account for the measured delays as well as the particular frame offset assigned to the individual circuit. In this manner, just-in-time scheduling of 2 ~ block 400 for transmission during a particular discrete frame 301-30~ is accomplished.
Scheduling in the above manner can also be utilized to level the load amongst assigned offsets of the disaete frames for the ùr-interface~ This ensures that associated blocks 4~0, each 3 0 corresponding to one or more offsets of the air-interface, are not overloaded when mobile station 125 is handed off to another cell~
It is recognized that many different T1 restructurings are possiblle which provide the packet blocks in alternate configurations. For example, it is recognized that there may be a - `,~ . ' .,.~. ~-',., , ,` ': ' - ' 21~2~SO
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FIG. 6 generally depicts an alternate embodiment of data packet multiplexing onto a T1 link in accordance u~ith the invention.
PIG. 6 depicts a Tl restructuring whi~ indudes 3 circuit switched 32 Kbit/s message channels ~06, and is but one of many possible T1 restructurings that may be performed based on system requirements.
As stated above, a circuit switching approach allows for 10 trunking effiaencies in a DS CDMA ~o~rununication system. One such approach is described in the instant assignee's pending U.S.
application Ser. No. 997,997 filed on December 28, 1992, entitled "Method and Apparatus for Transferring Data in a Communica~ion System," invented by Michael J. Bach and 15 William R Bayer, and incorporated herein by reference. Due to, certain characterist;cs of t}~e DS CDMA coIrunur~ication system (or example, inter alia, loading c~aracteristics), the approach described in Bach may at times be preferable (based on efficiency, for example) to the invention described herein. Consequently, O provision may be made in processor 312, vocoder 315 and link termination 322 to comrert T1 link 110, at an appropriate time, from the packet suritching arrangement described herein in accordance with the invention to the circuit sw~tched T1 approach of Bach, and vice versa. Conversion may take place one 25 individual circuit at a time. In its optimum configuration to balance be~.~reen system loading and time delay minimization in ~ne DS CDMA communication system, the DS CDMA
communication system may employ a time-shared combination of circuit/padcet switching by providing appropriate prqvisions in 3 0 processc~r 312, vocoder 315 and link termination 322.
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Claims (10)
1. A communication network comprising:
a base-site for conveying information via an air interface having discrete frame offset timing; and an interface means, coupled to the base-site, for implementing frame timing related to the discrete frame offset timing of the air interface.
a base-site for conveying information via an air interface having discrete frame offset timing; and an interface means, coupled to the base-site, for implementing frame timing related to the discrete frame offset timing of the air interface.
2. The communication network of claim 1 wherein said information is deterministically associated with a particular framing timing of the interface means.
3. A communication network comprising:
a base-site for conveying information via an air interface having discrete frame offset timing; and means, coupled to the base-site, for determining which groups are to be conveyed during which discrete frames and transferring the groups of information to the base-site in frame timing related to the determination.
a base-site for conveying information via an air interface having discrete frame offset timing; and means, coupled to the base-site, for determining which groups are to be conveyed during which discrete frames and transferring the groups of information to the base-site in frame timing related to the determination.
4. The communication network of claim 3 wherein the blocks of information further comprise blocks of N T1 frames each having a header appended thereon every Nth frame.
5. A communication network comprising:
a plurality of base-sites for synchronously conveying blocks of information via an air interface having discrete frame offset timing; and means, coupled to the base-sites, for determining which groups are to be conveyed during which discrete frames and transferring the groups of information to the plurality of base-sites in frame timing related to the determination.
a plurality of base-sites for synchronously conveying blocks of information via an air interface having discrete frame offset timing; and means, coupled to the base-sites, for determining which groups are to be conveyed during which discrete frames and transferring the groups of information to the plurality of base-sites in frame timing related to the determination.
6. The communication network of claim 5 wherein the plurality of base-sites further comprise a plurality of code division multiple access (CDMA) base-sites.
7. An interface in a communication network comprising:
means for grouping frames of information into blocks of information;
means for determining when, in time, the blocks of information are to be transmitted over an air interface by a base-site; and means for sequentially transferring the blocks of information to the base-site in an order based on the determination.
means for grouping frames of information into blocks of information;
means for determining when, in time, the blocks of information are to be transmitted over an air interface by a base-site; and means for sequentially transferring the blocks of information to the base-site in an order based on the determination.
8. A method of mitigating blocking on a communication link, the communication link coupling an interface means and a base-site, the method comprising the steps of:
determining, based on a predetermined number of vocoders transmitting at a given rate, the likelihood of overflow on the link; and preventing a vocoder, out of the predetermined number of vocoders, from transmitting at the given rate.
determining, based on a predetermined number of vocoders transmitting at a given rate, the likelihood of overflow on the link; and preventing a vocoder, out of the predetermined number of vocoders, from transmitting at the given rate.
9. An apparatus for mitigating blocking on a communication link, the communication link coupling an interface means and a base-site, the apparatus comprising:
means for determining, based on a predetermined number of vocoders transmitting at a given rate, the likelihood of overflow on the link; and means, at a vocoder out of the predetermined number of vocoders, for transmitting at a rate different than the given rate based on the determined likelihood.
means for determining, based on a predetermined number of vocoders transmitting at a given rate, the likelihood of overflow on the link; and means, at a vocoder out of the predetermined number of vocoders, for transmitting at a rate different than the given rate based on the determined likelihood.
10. An apparatus for scheduling transmission of blocks of information, the blocks of information produced by a vocoder at an interface means, the blocks of information to be transmitted by a base-site during discrete frames of an air-interface, the apparatus comprising:
means for measuring a delay between a vocoder at the interface means and the base-site and a signal processing time associated with the base-site; and means, at the vocoder, for adjusting timing of the vocoder to account for the measured delays whereby the blocks of information arrive at the base-site just-in-time for transmission during a corresponding discrete frame of the air-interface.
means for measuring a delay between a vocoder at the interface means and the base-site and a signal processing time associated with the base-site; and means, at the vocoder, for adjusting timing of the vocoder to account for the measured delays whereby the blocks of information arrive at the base-site just-in-time for transmission during a corresponding discrete frame of the air-interface.
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