Optimum packet size for data communications

If packets of data carry D message bits and H header bits and reliable estimates of message length are not available, then D should be chosen to be about eight times greater than H in order to obtain maximum throughput for a given transmission rate.     

LOCNET-an experimental communications system using optical routing

Experiences gained with the installation and operation of an experimental communication system are reported. The system uses distributed switching in its narrow-band part, integrating ISDN services and high-speed data communication, and a star coupler as a central device. LiNbO₃ optical switches behind the star coupler prevent line tapping. In the wideband subsystem, optical routing is used for videophone. The central device is a space-division-switching unit consisting of cascaded 4×4 LiNbO₃ switching matrices. Both the narrowband and wideband parts of the system have been operated with bit error rates less than 10^-9     

Cellular packet communications

The future of third-generation wireless networking is discussed. The vision of the third generation is a single set of standards that can meet a wide range of wireless access applications. Third-generation systems, in harmony with broadband integrated services digital networks, will use shared resources to convey many information types. A single network architecture will serve its users efficiently in many environments, including moving vehicles, indoor and outdoor public areas, residences, offices, and factories. A study of a switching architecture, referred to as a cellular packet switch, and a packet transmission technique, referred to as a packet reservation multiple access is discussed. By means of a design example, it is shown how these techniques can work together to meet some of the demands of third-generation systems     

Programmable wavelet packet transform processor

A programmable one-dimensional discrete wavelet packet transform processor is presented. Compared with existing architectures, the proposed processor can carry out both wavelet transforms and wavelet packet transforms, and is suitable for high-tap filters and high decomposition levels. It is small, and is especially suitable for on-chip or single-chip implementation     

Optimal packet length for wireless communications using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

Telecommunication Systems - Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) allow significant throughput enhancement as all reflections have the same phase at the receiver. In this paper, we suggest to...     

Optical signal routing using emission packet positioning of semiconductor heterostructure

We present a novel optical switching technique utilizing emission packet positioning of semiconductor heterostructure. A modulation-doped p-AlGaAs-GaAs heterostructure is employed to control spontaneous emission packet positioning with electric fields. Emission packets generated by optical input signals are brought over 150 /spl mu/m with electric fields, so the output fibers can detect the emission intensity as signals. The first-order analysis indicates that the drift velocity of minority electrons in GaAs limits the detectable maximum data rate and nanoseconds timescale signal routing operation at 20 Gb/s is possible at an electron drift velocity of 2/spl times/10/sup 7/ cm/s.     

Fault-tolerant communications for wafer-scale integration of a processor array

This paper describes schemes for introducing fault-tolerance into a two-dimensional orthogonal array of cells with nearest neighbour communication paths. The schemes are designed to tolerate a large number of faults and are therefore applicable to the yield-enhancement of large-area VLSI circuits. Simulation results are presented which show the superiority of the schemes over previous proposals and indicate that the nearest neighbour interconnections need not be a barrier to the desirable goal of integrating an array computer onto a whole-wafer circuit.     

Selective packet dropping for VoIP and TCP flows

The adoption of the IP protocol for serving diverse applications arises the need for mechanisms to prevent network congestion in scenarios with different traffic types (responsive and unresponsive) sharing limited network resources. To deal with this issue, a number of algorithms for active queue management (AQM) have been proposed. However, most of them do not observe the traffic type and usually disregard this knowledge. In this way, the provided service could not comply with the distinctive requirements of the different type of traffic, such as VoIP services, which demand bounded packet latency and loss rate.     

Low-complexity space-time processor for DS-CDMA communications

A novel wideband beamforming technique for cellular CDMA systems is presented in this paper. The proposed algorithm asymptotically provides the maximum SINR estimate of the signal with the desired code (SDC) by optimally combining desired signals from different paths and canceling strong multiuser access interference (MUAI). A two-dimensional (2-D) matched filter structure is used where not only different temporal samples of the matched filter output are processed but where those from matched filters connected to different antennas are processed as well. In contrast to previously proposed techniques, an exact code synchronization for the SDC is not required. The algorithm presented herein asymptotically provides the arrival time of the multipaths within a bit period and the optimum beamformers for extracting each of them. Space-time filters for combining the fingers across both space and time while canceling the MUAIs are constructed correspondingly. The instrumental property exploited by this technique is the fact that although the respective spectra of the SDC and MUAI components at the matched filter output are statistically identical, the respective spectra of their squared values differ. A simplified RAKE structure-based receiver is also proposed. The 2-D RAKE receiver considerably decreases the computations but requires a coarse SDC code synchronization. A technique to achieve coarse SDC code synchronization is also proposed     

A future satellite communications system using millimetre-wave bands and an on-board processor

This paper proposes the system concept of a personal satellite communications system that will be available in the first decade of the 21st century. Technologies of millimetre-wave bands and an onboard processor with baseband switching promise to meet the requirements of a personal communications system: portability, low-cost, and large capacity. Based on the prospects of these technologies, the most likely parameters for the future personal satellite communications system and the configuration of a suitable on-board processor are proposed. A trial model of such an on-board processor has been made. In this paper, details of the trial model on-board processor and its future developments are described.     

Optimum packet size in a packet-switched data network

In packet-switched data networks, overheads are incurred primarily due to two aspects: the protocol, i.e. headers. acknowledgements etc. and blank padding of the partially used packet. In the letter, the overhead factors due to these two sources are derived under certain assumptions. Simulations using exponentially distributed messages have been carried out, and results from these are also presented. It is shown that, under certain conditions, it is possible to have a packet size that minimises the total overheads.     

Wavelet packet modulation for wireless communications

As proven by the success of OFDM, multicarrier modulation has been recognized as an efficient solution for wireless communications. Waveform bases other than sine functions could similarly be used for multicarrier systems in order to provide an alternative to OFDM. In this paper, we study the performance of wavelet packet transform modulation (WPM) for transmission over wireless channels. This scheme is shown to be overall quite similar to OFDM but with some interesting additional features and improved characteristics. A detailed analysis of the system's implementation complexity as well as an evaluation of the influence of implementation‐related impairments are also reported. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Principles and lessons in packet communications

After nearly a decade of experience, we reflect on the principles and lessons which have emerged in the field of packet communications. We begin by identifying the need for efficient resource sharing and review the original and recurring difficulties we had in achieving this goal in packet networks. We then discuss various lessons learned in the areas of: deadlocks; degradations; distributed control; broadcost channels; and hierarchical design. The principles which we discuss have to do with: the efficiency of Large system; the switching computer; network constraints; distributed control; flow control; stale protocols; and designers not yet experienced in packet communications. Throughout the paper, we identify various open issues which remain to be solved in packet communications.     

VoIP丢包处理技术的研究进展

阐述了VoIP丢包的主要原因，并介绍了当前常用的解决丢包问题的相关技术。其中，丢包处理技术是用来恢复或隐藏当发生丢包时所造成的损失的相关技术，包括丢包隐藏和丢包恢复；而抗丢包技术的目的是避免网络拥塞，减少丢包率。另外，还给出了VoIP当前的研究现状，论述了其发展趋势。     

A baseband processor for impulse ultra-wideband communications

This paper presents a baseband processor architecture for pulsed ultra-wideband signals. It consists of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a clock generation system, and a digital back-end. The clock generation system provides different phases of a 300-MHz clock using four differential inverter stages. The specification of the jitter standard deviation is 100 ps. The Flash interleaved ADC provides four bit samples at 1.2 Gsps. The back-end uses parallelization to process these samples and to reduce the signal acquisition time to 65 /spl mu/s. The entire synchronization algorithm is implemented in the digital domain, without feeding any signals back to the clock control. The baseband processor and ADC were implemented on the same 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS die at 1.8 V as part of a complete baseband transceiver. A wireless data rate of 193 kb/s is demonstrated.     

针对客户前端设备的集成通信处理器RC32355

适用于小型企业和家庭的新型通信设备正在形成一个具有巨大潜力的市场。随着多PC环境的普及,家庭/小型办公室网络的需求增长,网络连接的新设备开始出现,它们可以在广域网(WAN)接口和局域网(LAN)接口之间提供桥接。市场上流行着多种技术,存在着相互竞争的标准。IDT公司作为一家专门为推动语音、数据和无线网络统一的新型通信企业提供     

Multichannel reservation protocol for packet multiple-access communications

An efficient protocol well suited for the transmission of variable length messages over a group of parallel channels is described. The protocol is applicable to star networks with inbound multiple-access and outbound broadcast channels. Throughput capacity of the inbound channels is analysed and optimised with respect to message length and packet overhead.<>     

Capture-division packet access for wireless personal communications

This paper presents a new architecture for the third-generation mobile systems, capture-division packetized access (CDPA), that overcomes most of the limitations of present cellular systems. It addresses the three main issues of radio access, namely the channel reuse, the multiple access, and the handover problems, in complete adherence to packet-switching principles. The CDPA channel reuse mechanism is a completely new alternative with respect to time-division, frequency-division, or code-division multiple-access (TDMA, FDMA, and CDMA, respectively), which achieve communication parallelism by subdividing the bandwidth a priori among cells. In CDPA, a single frequency channel is used and parallel transmissions are achieved through the “capture” capability of receivers. The hybrid reservation-polling multiple access mechanism used in CDPA is able to integrate any kind of traffic and guarantees almost immediate retransmission of packets that are not captured, thus assuring their correct reception. Finally, the packet-switching approach allows connectionless communications with any base station (BS), and eliminates the need for extra radio traffic in managing handovers. This turns out to be very effective in local area systems where the required high bandwidth is obtained by using a pico-cell structure. We present the CDPA architecture, discuss some implementation issues, and evaluate its performance under a variety of system parameters and operating conditions, using analytical and simulation methods     

WDM packet routing for high-capacity data networks

We present experimental and numerical studies of a novel packet-switch architecture, the data vortex, designed for large-scale photonic interconnections. The selfrouting multihop packet switch efficiently scales to large port counts (>10 k) while maintaining low latencies, a narrow latency distribution, and high throughput. To facilitate optical implementation, the data-vortex architecture employs a novel hierarchical topology, traffic control, and synchronous timing that act to reduce the necessary routing logic operations and buffering. As a result of this architecture, all routing decisions for the data packets are based on a single logic operation at each node. The routing is further simplified by the employment of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)-encoded header bits, which enable packet-header processing by simple wavelength filtering. The packet payload remains in the optical domain as it propagates through the data-vortex switch fabric, exploiting the transparency and high bandwidths achievable in fiber optic transmission. In this paper, we discuss numerical simulations of the data-vortex performance and report results from an experimental investigation of multihop WDM packet routing in a recirculating test bed     

C-PRMA: a centralized packet reservation multiple access for localwireless communications

Packet-switched technology has been demonstrated as effective in cellular radio systems with short propagation delay, not only for data, but also for voice transmission. In fact, packet voice can efficiently exploit speech on-off activity to improve bandwidth utilization over time division multiple access (TDMA). Such an approach has been first suggested in the packet reservation multiple-access (PRMA) technique, an adaptation of the reservation ALOHA protocol to the cellular environment. However, being PRMA-based on a fixed frame scheme, it cannot thoroughly take advantage of the very short propagation delays encountered in microcellular systems that allow, for instance, the immediate retransmission of packets lost because of the interference noise from adjacent cells. We present the centralized PRMA, a natural enhancement of PRMA, in which the base station (BS) plays a central role in scheduling the transmissions of mobile stations (MSs). As a consequence, the transmission scheduling is very flexible and can account for the different traffic rate and delay constraints that emerge from voice and data integration. A packet retransmission policy to recover corrupted packets can be implemented and operated efficiently to provide an acceptable grade of service, even in a very noisy environment. The simulation results presented show the quantitative improvements of the centralized packet reservation multiple-access (C-PRMA) performance with respect to PRMA