Pulse or digital communications – Repeaters – Testing
Patent
1989-09-29
1991-04-09
Safourek, Benedict V.
Pulse or digital communications
Repeaters
Testing
371 682, H04B 0702, H04L 0102
Patent
active
050070673
ABSTRACT:
This invention is a technique for the substantially instantaneous self-healing of digital communications networks. Digital data streams from each of N nearby sources are combined and encoded to produce N+M coded data streams using a coding algorithm. The N+M coded data streams are then each transmitted over a separate long haul communications link to a decoder where any N of the N+M coded data streams can be decoded uniquely to produce the original N data streams. The orginal N data streams are then distributed to their respective separate end destinations. If any M or less of the N+M long haul communications links fails, i.e. as in a telephone line that gets cut or a long distance switch that fails, no rerouting of traffic need be done. Rather, the receiver detects loss of carrier on the failed link(s), and immediately supplies the missing data by decoding the data from the at least N remaining links. The technique overcomes a long felt problem of trying to reroute traffic by using sophisticated resource allocation techniques when a communications link fails.
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Ayanoglu Ender
Gitlin Richard D.
I Chih-Lin
Mazo James E.
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Bocure Tesfaldet
Safourek Benedict V.
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