The general connection device and the method that are used for base station edition download and network element centralized maintenance
Technical field
The invention belongs to the communications field, specifically relate to a kind of general connection device and method that is used for base station edition download and network element centralized maintenance.
Background technology
It is to guarantee that the base station is normal, a kind of necessary means of steady operation that base station edition is downloaded.
The downloading mode of base station edition has at present:
The one, download in the base station by base station controller by background net management, control channel is generally adopted in the physical channel.
Its shortcoming is:
Generally can only carry out version to the near-end base station downloads;
Tightr with the associativity of concrete equipment;
These base stations require to belong to below the base station controller usually.
The 2nd, a PCM adapter is installed on a computer, the other end of card connects base station controller by pcm interface, finishes the conversion of computer bus interface to the E1 interface.
Its shortcoming is:
Speed of download is lower;
When adopting the PCM adapter, strong to computer dependency, program will be followed the upgrading of computer and operating system and correspondingly be changed;
The PCM adapter is difficult to adapt to different operating system.
As shown in Figure 1: present administering and maintaining for Telecommunication Network Element, all be to adopt the background net management server to link to each other with the processor on foreground mostly by TCP/IP, wherein, all be to adopt TCP/IP to connect between local network management, 97 interface message processor (IMP)s, NM server, webmaster terminal, the network element.
As can be seen, if distance is long between the entity that any two needs connect, the centre just need connect (by mode error rate height such as dialing) by router from this scheme.And owing to consider space and efficient, present most network elements and do not support to stride the TCP/IP of router and connect, if desired all network elements are carried out remote centralized and safeguard, just need the background net management server to carry out cascade, further limited the flexibility that connects.As can be seen, this scheme networking is huge from accompanying drawing 1, complexity, and the system cost height, but can realize fast.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of general connection device and method that is used for base station edition download and network element centralized maintenance.By introducing general connection device of the present invention (GCE), can overcome the shortcoming of said method.
Being used for the base station downloads:
Can realize that version is carried out in the base station under any base station controller to be downloaded;
Can carry out version to a plurality of base stations simultaneously downloads;
These base stations can be the base stations of near-end or far-end;
The physical channel can be speech path channel or control channel;
And adopt the Ethernet interface of standard between the computer, and adopt the E1 interface of standard between the switch, little to computer dependency, versatility is stronger;
Efficient and stability have all obtained large increase.
The centralized maintenance that is used for Telecommunication Network Element:
Adopt the E1 interface of standard between general connection device (GCE) and the switch, and adopt the Ethernet interface (adopting the standard ICP/IP protocol) of standard between the computer, finish the function of Digital Subscriber Line access multiplexing and exchange, the conversion of HDLC Frame and ethernet data frame is provided.
The binding relationship of configurable each time slot of GCE and network element, switch are the passage that connects between NM server and the network element.
Maintenance information can be distributed to related network elements by the semifixed connection of switch by general connection device; The network element relevant information can be collected from related network elements by the semifixed connection of switch by this equipment.
This scheme makes full use of existing relay circuit resources, and the networking simple and flexible does not need to carry out complicated IP address assignment, and cost is low.Remote end module can be connected with switch by SDH, owing to be to transmit by optical fiber, therefore, even long-distance transmissions also can guarantee the smaller error rate.The structure of carrying out centralized maintenance by GCE as shown in Figure 2.
The present invention is achieved in that
A kind of general connection device that is used for base station edition download and Telecommunication Network Element centralized maintenance is characterized in that:
Described general connection device (GCE) is made up of E1 drive circuit, Ethernet interface circuit, digital switching network (DSN), field programmable gate array (FPGA), CPU and relevant random asccess memory (RAM) and high-speed memory (FLASH).
One end of described general connection device provides a plurality of E1 interfaces to connect each network element by switch;
The other end of described general connection device provides Ethernet interface, connects the background net management server by TCP/IP, finishes the function of Digital Subscriber Line access multiplexing and exchange, and the conversion of HDLC Frame and ethernet data frame is provided.
Described general connection device disposes the binding relationship of each time slot and network element, thereby realizes the dynamic management to different network elements.
Described general connection device provides a plurality of E1 passages, and the time slot in the described E1 passage can freely divide the centralized maintenance that is used in the base station edition download or is used for network element.
A kind of method that is used for base station edition download and Telecommunication Network Element centralized maintenance may further comprise the steps:
Base station edition is deposited earlier to computer;
Set up the communication port between computer and the base station;
By control channel or speech channel base station edition is downloaded.
Described foundation further may further comprise the steps from the communication port of computer through Zhongdao near-end of GCE, switch or telepoint base station:
Be used in the time slot that base station edition is downloaded in general connection device (GCE) side for this network element branch;
The corresponding time slot of repeat circuit plate for general connection device (GCE) side repeat circuit plate and base station edition download on switch is set up semi-fixing continuing.
When adopting control channel, directly carry out version and download by the maintenance channel of having set up.
Adopt speech channel, need the base station to carry out an analog call so that allow the base station controller be that it distributes voice channel time slot.
Further comprise following steps during described employing speech channel:
Assign the base station edition download command by this locality or centralized network management to the base station, comprised called number in the message;
This order is received in the base station, by control channel, has begun an analog call, reports the call proceeding success message by this locality or centralized network management after base station controller is finished call proceeding;
Background net management is received the download work that just begins base station edition after this message, the download channel that is given information and transmitted by general connection device (GCE);
After base station edition was downloaded end, the base station reported the download end to the backstage;
Indication base station in backstage is torn the work on road open, tears the road open and finishes the back base station controller and report background net management, thereby finish the work of whole base station edition download.
According to number of base stations, a plurality of E1 interfaces by general connection device (GCE) side carry out version simultaneously to a plurality of base stations and download.
A kind of method that is used for base station edition download and Telecommunication Network Element centralized maintenance may further comprise the steps:
Unify numbering for different network element nodes, be used to identify different network element nodes, each network element all has a unique node number, and network element can carry out addressing by this node number;
Upward distribute corresponding time slot at general connection device (GCE) for this network element;
On switch, set up semi-fixing continuing, be used to get through from centralized network management through the path of general connection device (GCE) to the network element node for the repeat circuit plate of general connection device (GCE) side repeat circuit plate and corresponding network element side;
The maintenance information that webmaster is assigned sends to general connection device (GCE) by Ethernet, has wherein comprised the node number and the maintenance information of network element in the data packet message;
General connection device (GCE) is transmitted to corresponding network element according to the node number of network element in the message and the configuration information of self by switch;
When message when the network element node is sent to centralized network management, this message will send to general connection device (GCE) by switch;
After general connection device (GCE) is received message, go out the node number of corresponding network element, send to centralized network management by Ethernet again according to the channel number at message place and the configuration extraction of self.
Effect of the present invention is:
Can realize that by this equipment a plurality of base stations are carried out the remote base stations version simultaneously downloads, and has improved its speed and stability greatly; Can realize the centralized maintenance of a plurality of network elements and can save rare IP address and avoid complicated IP address configuration by introducing general connection device; By on GCE, distributing centralized maintenance and downloading centralized maintenance and the download of remote base stations version that the time slot passage can be realized network element simultaneously; The remote network element node can pass through Optical Fiber Transmission, has higher bandwidth and smaller error transfer rate; Can make full use of existing relay circuit resources, improve the utilance of resource; Adopt this method networking to have the characteristics of simple and flexible.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1: realize many network elements centralized maintenance structural representation by the server cascade.
Fig. 2: realize many network elements centralized maintenance structural representation by GCE.
Fig. 3: GCE device structure block diagram.
Fig. 4: ZXPCS networking structure figure.
Fig. 5: GCE is used for the base station edition of ZXPCS and downloads.
Embodiment
The present invention realizes many base station editions downloads and many network elements centralized maintenance function by introducing general connection device (GCE).
The hardware block diagram of GCE as shown in Figure 3, GCE mainly is made up of E1 drive circuit, Ethernet interface circuit, digital switching network (DSN), field programmable gate array (FPGA), CPU and relevant RAM and FLASH.
Equipment one end provides a plurality of E1 interfaces to connect each network element by switch, the other end provides Ethernet interface, connect the background net management server by TCP/IP, finish the function of Digital Subscriber Line access multiplexing and exchange, the conversion of HDLC Frame and ethernet data frame is provided.
The binding relationship of configurable each time slot and network element among the while GCE, thus realization is to the dynamic management of different network elements.
GCE provides a plurality of E1 passages, and the time slot in these E1 passages can freely divide the centralized maintenance that is used in the base station edition download or is used for network element.
[1] GCE is used for the base station edition download
When GCE was used for the base station edition download, base station edition was deposited on computers earlier.When downloading, will set up the communication port between computer and the base station earlier, process is as follows:
Be used in the time slot that base station edition is downloaded in the GCE side for this network element branch.
The corresponding time slot of repeat circuit plate for GCE side repeat circuit plate and base station edition download on switch is set up semi-fixing continuing.
So just got through from the path of computer through Zhongdao near-end of GCE, switch or telepoint base station.
Base station edition is downloaded can adopt control channel or speech channel.
When base station edition is downloaded employing control channel, do not need to carry out sharing out the work of passage, downloading process is relatively simple, directly carries out version by the maintenance channel of having set up and downloads.
If passage adopts speech channel, need the base station to carry out an analog call so that allow the base station controller be that it distributes voice channel time slot.For this reason:
1. at first need to assign the base station edition download command to the base station, comprised called number in the message by this locality or centralized network management;
2. after this order is received in the base station, just begun an analog call, after base station controller is finished call proceeding, reported the call proceeding success message by this locality or centralized network management.What this process was walked is control channel;
3. background net management is received the download work that just begins base station edition after this message, in this process, and the download channel that GCE gives information and transmits;
4. after base station edition was downloaded end, the base station reported the download end to the backstage;
5. indication base station in backstage is torn the work on road open.Tear open the road finish after base station controller report background net management, thereby finish the work that whole base station edition is downloaded.
The GCE side has a plurality of E1 interfaces, and according to number of base stations, GCE can carry out version simultaneously to a plurality of base stations and download.
[2] GCE is used for the centralized maintenance of Telecommunication Network Element
For the centralized maintenance of Telecommunication Network Element, in order to identify different network element nodes, need to give different network element nodes to unify numbering, each network element all has a unique node number, and network element can carry out addressing by this node number.
When carrying out centralized maintenance by this equipment:
1. at first on GCE, distribute corresponding time slot for this network element;
2. on switch, set up semi-fixing continuing then, just got through from centralized network management through the path of GCE to the network element node for the repeat circuit plate of GCE side repeat circuit plate and corresponding network element side;
3. the maintenance information assigned of webmaster sends to GCE by Ethernet, has wherein comprised the node number and the maintenance information of network element in the data packet message;
4.GCE be transmitted to corresponding network element by switch according to the node number of network element in the message and the configuration information of self;
When message when the network element node is sent to centralized network management, this message will send to GCE by switch;
6.GCE after receiving message, go out the node number of corresponding network element, send to centralized network management by Ethernet again according to the channel number at message place and the configuration extraction of self;
So just realized the centralized maintenance of Telecommunication Network Element.
ZXPCS is the powerful personal wireless communications system product that ZTE is developed, it combines access network technology, personal handyphone system PHS (PersonalHandset System) and global system for mobile communications GSM technology, MAP by standard is realized interconnecting of the whole network, can realize user's roaming call easily, for people provide good voice-and-data service.
The wireless access side networking structure of system as shown in Figure 4.Background net management can be realized the remote download of base station edition and the centralized maintenance of network element simultaneously by equipment GCE among the figure.
When carrying out centralized maintenance by GCE, GCE is transmitted to corresponding network element according to the node number of network element and the time slot configuration information of self by IGW after receiving message; Otherwise, when packet when network element is sent to centralized network management, message can send to GCE by IGW.After GCE receives packet, by Ethernet notice centralized network management.Thereby realize the centralized maintenance of a plurality of ANU.
The base station program version of ZXPCS is downloaded and is adopted speech channel, relates to each modules such as background net management, backstage download module, GCE, ANU, CSC and CS.Wherein, GCE mainly finishes the translation function of E1 data and Ethernet data bag, for program is downloaded the forwarding passage that gives information.
The base station edition down load application is seen shown in the accompanying drawing 5.
The present invention by introduce a general connection device (GCE) version of remote base stations program downloaded and the centralized maintenance of network element a kind of new method is provided, and in practical engineering project, obtained good effect.Because can also promoting, its versatility, this equipment be used for a lot of other purposes as concentrating environmental monitoring etc.