CN1505886A - Home networking gateway - Google Patents
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Abstract
A home networking gateway provides an interface between an HFC network and an in-home network. Full voice and data connection between the HFC network and each device in the in-home network is provided through the interface. A translator included in the home networking gateway is utilized to provide a mapping between the communication protocols used in the in-home network and the protocols used in the HFC network, eliminating the need for the in-home network to be dependent upon the HFC-specific protocols.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of home networking gateway, more particularly, relate to a kind of gateway arrangement, to provide interconnecting function between the device network in externally HFC network and " family " or other like environment.
Background technology
Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) network develops into the network that can support other the various telecommunications service except that traditional broadcast type Video service just apace.Specifically, hfc plant just is being used to provide data, services, comprises high-speed Internet access.People wish that cable network operator can provide the medium that can realize the high permeability telephone service in the near future.
Can provide by the unit that use be positioned at the concentrated place of family's end or dwelling house (or enterprise) such as the telecommunications service of plain old telephone service (POTS).Constitute hfc plant and can be called as " communication gate " or CG based on this unit of the interface between the ustomer premises access equipment (CPE) of phone.CG comprises the various various ply-yarn drills that interface is provided between hfc plant and black phone, for example, use " the POTS card " that be positioned at CG.CG uses certain protocol to transmit and receive data by hfc plant, and it is cable data, services interface specification (DOCSIS) in a preferred embodiment, is used for the Media Gateway Control Protocol of the signaling protocol of phone application.
When the installation of POTS card is gone up in position, provide the interface that is connected to twisted-pair feeder and the phone at dwelling house place to use in a conventional manner, and all phones all are connected to an independent twisted-pair feeder, and it is connected to the telephone jack in the whole building in bus configuration.Perhaps, when between concentrated place and particular telephone socket or socket collection, having set up point-to-point connection, can adopt " family expenses (home run) " wiring.The advantage of family expenses wirings is easily to support several telephone wires at home, and the phone in zone distributes a telephone number, is different from the interior employed number of phone in other zone.Usually use many POTS card to support many telephone wires.
But " family expenses " wiring is not installed by present most of families and small business, and is to use the simple bus structures that are connected to telephone network on the division points of having set.In some cases, the user may wish to have cheaply the basic telephone line from local exchange carrier, but also wishes to have other line that is provided by hfc plant operator.The twisted-pair feeder that in some families, does not add.These limitation are feasible must to be used for other device of phone or other data/telecommunication apparatus and CG interconnection.In other environment, twisted-pair feeder can be arranged, but the service that will provide may surpass a single POTS line.
Because viewpoint family (in-home) wiring with architecture may not be best, and the POTS signal that is provided by telephone operator also can be provided, so hfc plant operator must consider to use other type of family's communication.These communication types may comprise family's routing network, data (being higher than the POTS frequency spectrum) are provided or use the household electrical source network by the existing telephone line.
Fig. 1 is the view that uses the exemplary conventional network architecture 8 of communication gate (CG) between hfc plant and dwelling house.As shown in the figure, CG10 communicates by letter with Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) 12 by hfc plant 14.CMTS12 further communicates by letter with call management system (CMS) 16, and CMS16 communicates by letter with IP network 20 with PSTN (PSTN) 18 simultaneously.As shown in Figure 1, CG10 communicates by letter with a plurality of equipment 22 of dwelling house end by home network 24.The use of home-network protocols makes CG10 can support new service, and make can use will be used for implementing these new services several at least existing CPE (for example: standard telephone).But because hfc plant is used certain protocol, it is different with home-network protocols and incompatible probably, and this makes any communication between hfc plant and the dwelling house become difficult.
Summary of the invention
The present invention can solve the present technique exist problem, the present invention relates to a kind of home networking gateway (HNG), more particularly, relate to a kind of gateway arrangement, be used for providing internet interconnecting function between the device network of externally hfc plant and " family " or other like environment.
According to the present invention, HNG is used as the interface between hfc plant and the household equipment, and comprises that " discovery " is connected to the ability of the various device of home network.Also be used for providing resource allocation according to HNG of the present invention by home network.HNG is in conjunction with the compatibility that provides in the converter function on the application layer of HNG between hfc plant agreement and a plurality of home-network protocols.
In one embodiment, the HNG that is disposed according to the present invention finds household equipment and relevant service request thereof, comprises information flow type (being synchronous or asynchronous) and bandwidth cost.For example, in the situation of synchronizing of information stream (for example transmission), can allocate bandwidth in advance for this equipment.
Use the advantage of HNG to be its exchange by hfc plant support key network parameter, these parameters may be derived from a lot of different home networks.Specifically, HNG supports that household equipment communicates by hfc plant, and need not to have specific knowledge and this agreement of support for the hfc plant agreement.
Other various execution modes of the present invention and advantage will and become clear by following explanation with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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Fig. 1 illustrates the simplification network architecture of the prior art arrangement that is used to provide the communication between dwelling house and the hfc plant;
Fig. 2 is the block diagram that the exemplary home network gateway (HNG) that forms according to the present invention is shown;
Fig. 3 is illustrated in the another kind of network architecture configuration mode that comprises the dongle interface between communication equipment and the home networking gateway;
Fig. 4 be employed by the innovation HNG, with the flow chart of the example process of the discovery of actuating equipment in home network;
Fig. 5 is a flow chart employed by HNG, that equipment that think connection provides the example process of allocated bandwidth;
Fig. 6 illustrates the example protocol architecture of use based on the exemplary home network gateway of the home network of IEEE1394;
Fig. 7 illustrates the call flow diagram that is used for setting up Speech Communication between hfc plant and the home network based on IEEE1394 (FireWire);
Fig. 8 illustrates at hfc plant with based on the exemplary protocol stack of the HNG interface between the home network of Bluetooth technology;
Fig. 9 illustrates and is used for setting up the call flow diagram that speech connects by hfc plant between two bluetooth equipments; And
Figure 10 is the flow chart that the example process that is used to find the bluetooth equipment in the home network is shown.
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Fig. 2 illustrates exemplary HNG30 of the present invention, and it is as the communication gate that comprises embedded type household network interface 32.In the present embodiment, HNG30 comprises appropriate software and hardware, to support specific home network 15 and based on service the sending to this particular home network 15 of Multi-Service Operator (MSO).Home network interface 32 also can be the form of the insertion card that is connected to main bus 34, and comprises suitable physical layer driver and interface (for example, antenna, RJ-11 connect, power-supply system connect).Be used to support that the software of home network 15 can be fixed on card, or as the part of the software of communication gate.The upgrading of software can be carried out from network/network element management system (NMS/EMS) 68 (with reference to figure 3) by hfc plant 14.
As shown in Figure 2, HNG30 comes support telephony services by one or more twisted-pair feeder utilizations (one or more) Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (SLIC) card 36 and RJ-11 38.As shown in the figure, HNG30 also supports data, services by the Ethernet card 40 that is connected between main bus 34 and the RJ45 interface 42.According to the present invention, home network interface unit 32 is used for supporting being connected to the interface of household equipment and any based on possible domestic agreements, comprises wireless, twisted-pair feeder (voice data) or power line.Also support other home interface such as infrared protocol (intra-red).
As shown in Figure 2, RF connector 44 is used for networking cable 47 is linked to Media Cable network system (MCNS is based on DOCSIS) tuner 46.Cable modem 48 is realized docsis layer, and HNG30 can be communicated by letter with CMTS12 (referring to Fig. 1).HNG30 comprises that also digital signal processor (DSP) 50 handles, moves in case of necessity compression algorithm and the signal processing operations of carrying out other to carry out speech.Example user line interface circuit (SLIC) 36 can be supported separate telephone line up to 4 by using the RJ11 connector.Processor 52, nonvolatile memory 54 and RAM56 also communicate by main bus 34, bus 34 other the various modules in the HNG30 that also interconnect.In a kind of exemplary embodiment, can use the R3000 processor that provides by Toshiba Corp (Toshiba).
According to principle of the present invention, DSP50 analog pulse coded modulation (PCM) bus is to communicate by letter with SLIC36 by sending the OCM encoded data signal.SLIC36 generates analog signal, to transmit by twisted-pair feeder telephone wiring (through RF11 interconnection 38).In a preferred embodiment, DSP50 communicates by letter with home network interface 32 by pcm bus, to transmit telephone signals by home network 15.In the present embodiment, be used for to go up realization to the translation function (for example CODEC) that converts analog telephone signal from the digital signal of DSP50 at the remote equipment that is defined as " dongle " (for example dongle 58 of Fig. 3), this equipment interface is connected to the telephone plant of home network opposite side, as shown in Figure 3.In this was used, dongle58 played the effect of long-range SLIC and has replaced from HNG30 to dongle 58 ply-yarn drill function.This makes home network can be used to be transmitted in and is converted back to the Analog signals'digital telephone signal on the dongle 58.In this certain embodiments, dongle 58 communicates by letter with hfc plant 14 by HNG30 and is playing the effect that HFC14 and HNG30 expansion is entered family.The advantage of this embodiment is that active electronic equipment is disperseed and be placed on the contiguous place of terminal equipment.For phone application, this means that phone is connected to and be used for receiving dongle 58 from the digital signal of HNG30 by the particular home procotol.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, HNG30 is by local user's electric power network or by using the battery 60 (referring to Fig. 2) in the HNG30 to power.
As mentioned above, HNG30 can have integrated home network interface 32 so that the network interconnection function between hfc plant 14 and the home network 15 to be provided.In a preferred embodiment, home network 15 has the home network interface 32 as the HomePNA base station based on the communication technology by HPNA Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) definition.The HomePNA technology is supported the communicating by letter of data and voice signal and xDSL signal on existing user's house telephone wire by multiplexing HomePNA institute data carried by data.The HomePNA technology is used the frequency band that is higher than 2MHz.The RJ11 port 62 that is connected to (family) HomePNA home network interface 32 (with reference to figure 2) is used in connection to the HomePNA network.
In an alternative embodiment, form home network 15 by using the household electrical source spider lines.In the present embodiment, use the communication technology that is loaded on the power line to send voice service by electric power network.So, need in HNG30, realize a power-line network interface.Be similarly this interface AC plug port is provided, to be connected to power-line network.
In another embodiment, home network 15 can use the shared WAP (wireless access protocol) (SWAP) by HomeRF working group definition, as the basis of the various telephone plants of issue voice service to the user family.Other service such as video and data, services also can provide by HomeRF SWAP home network.By using frequency hop spread spectrum, HomeRFSWAP be designed to can be on the 2.4GHz frequency range voice-over and data traffic.SWAP interface in the HNG30 is connected to home network interface 32 by antenna 64 (based on SWAP).
HNG30 also can support other home network interface, comprises cordless telephone base station, PCS base station or based on the network interface of Infrared Data Association (IrDA).HNG30 also can support other to comprise the network interface of IEEE1394 (FireWire) interface and " bluetooth " interface.
Generally speaking and according to the present invention, HNG30 comprises the converter function that is positioned at processor 52, it provides an information translation relevant with home-network protocols to become the ability of hfc plant parameter.These parameters can used by the hfc plant assembly that comprises CMTS12 and CMS16 subsequently.Suppose that above-mentioned home-network protocols does not have the knowledge of employed specific protocol in the hfc plant 14, then this transducer provides the ability of mapping HFC particular message to corresponding home network parameter.Be not equal in home-network protocols under the situation of employed message in the hfc plant 14, this transducer is coordinated between two networks, to guarantee that communication can and postpone with suitable bandwidth to require to set up.Converter function (below will describe in detail) can be a process that operates on the application layer, and perhaps, alternatively, it can be used as the protocol layer under the application layer and is connected to two " legs " of protocol stack.
HNG30 of the present invention allows to expand based on the service of Multi-Service Operator (MSO), and these services are distributed on the household equipment that is connected on the home network by hfc plant 14.When family's network technology is designed to domestic. applications such as audio/video issue, home automation operation and computer network at large, the use of HNG30 will make these use variation, to comprise the service based on MSO.Specifically, the service based on MSO comprises that audio/video amusement, high-speed data insert (for example the Internet access), voiceband telephone, visual telephone and Streaming Media.For making these services can be by widespread deployment, the cable on aspect network manageability and the service quality (QoS) requires must be by the home network technologies support.
In a preferred embodiment, HNG30 has and comprises that " discovery of equipment ", configuration and the Network Management Function of management service and resource management are to guarantee the service quality in the home network.Device discovery can be carried out by using the discovery agreement of being supported by home network 15.This function makes HNG30 can find to appear at equipment in the home network 15.In addition, new equipment can utilize this discovery agreement to add home network 15 and serve by the HNG30 request.HNG30 can also use the SNMP and the MIB interface of clearly definition, with the equipment in configuration and the managing family network 15.In embodiment as shown in Figure 3, keep configuration data of device storehouse 62 to communicate by letter, as shown in Figure 3 with HNG30.HNG30 uses device databases 62 to retrieve configuration file and to upload these files to concrete equipment, to realize configuration or other purpose so.
In carrying out Service Management, HNG30 control is to the access based on the service of MSO.HNG30 can obtain the mandate and the authentication information of user's access service from NMS/EMS68, perhaps, alternatively, determines by seeking advice from its service level agreement (SLA) database 64 whether this service can be used for this family.In the present embodiment, SLA database 64 comprises the service class (for example high-quality, standard or basic) that the service of being authorized by HNG30 and user contract in home services.Also how network resource administration is relevant with HNG30 for this service level agreement.For example, data, services can use different transmission rates to send, and wherein, basic rank is corresponding to lower transmission rate, and therefore also corresponding to limited bandwidth, for the equipment use of supporting this data, services.This service level agreement is also determined can be to the QoS of every service guarantees.In one embodiment, use priority scheme based on service level agreement to solve contention to service.For example, voice service may have the priority higher than data, services in home network 15, and in return, data, services may provide before the issue vision signal.Perhaps can use other priority scheme, give equipment and service to distribute bandwidth---or being resource in general---based on SLA database 64.
Other function that can be deployed in the GNG30 comprises, the function of measuring specific to service that is connected the route and the bridging functionality of the equipment room on the home network and is used for billing purpose.In the present embodiment, HNG30 and centralized charging communication for service are the use that unit controls service with time, byte or calling.In addition, the HNG30 that forms according to the present invention can use tunnel protocol or other well-known agreement, with virtual support private network (VPN) technology.In the present embodiment, HNG30 carries out specific to the privacy management of service, transmits data safely so that enterprise can be its extension of network to other place by hfc plant 14.
As shown in Figure 4, the HNG30 that forms according to the present invention can be by " discovery " (step 70) of home-network protocols support to the equipment that is connected to home network 15, can also be the situation report that this equipment occurs to NMS/EMS68 (referring to Fig. 3), to carry out equipment (inventory) management (step 72 is referring to Fig. 4).For example, this may comprise whether definite user has been a certain services pay and has been authorized to receive the function of this service.Then this equipment may be asked a certain service (step 74) to HNG30, in case HNG30 determines that with NMS/EMS68 this equipment is authorized to receive this service (step 76), this equipment may be to this service (step 78) of call management system (CMS) 16 requests.In case receive the mandate from CMS16, HNG30 can provide service (step 80) to this equipment.Institute's requested service can be based on the service of MSO, for example speech or Video service.In the present embodiment, the permission of service means that the resource that need satisfy service level agreement can be used for this service simultaneously on home network 15 and hfc plant 14.
Fig. 5 is illustrated in the flow chart by each step in the bandwidth allocation of HNG30 management.The same with authorization of service process flow recited above, bandwidth allocation is from the discovery of HNG30 actuating equipment operation (step 90), reports to NMS/EMS68 (step 92) with the agreement of every equipment determining to link to home network 15 and connection performance and the result.In a kind of exemplary arrangement, HNG30 finds equipment and service request thereof, comprises information flow type (being asynchronous or synchronous) and bandwidth cost.(for example transmission) can be this equipment and allocates bandwidth in advance in the situation of synchronizing of information stream.In this specific example, this equipment (or service) sends " bandwidth " request (step 94).On NMS/EMS68, carry out an authorisation step, whether can use the bandwidth (step 96) of being asked to determine this particular device/service, and in case receive mandate, this equipment and CMTS12 get in touch to obtain bandwidth (step 98), and CMTS12 distributes the bandwidth (step 100) of being asked on hfc plant 14 then.Then, HNG30 distributes the bandwidth of being asked to give the equipment (step 102) of request that sends conversely again on home network 15.
Fig. 6 illustrates the protocol architecture of IEEE1394 HNG, in being designated as the protocol stack of 120 HFC side, by using DOCSIS to realize communicating by letter by hfc plant 132 with MGCP agreement 122 and 124 in conjunction with IP, UDP with Real-time Transport Protocol 126,128 and 130.The protocol stack 134 of home network side comprises stack layer, with the operation by carrying out based on 1394 based on 1394 network 136.As shown in Figure 6, phone application 138 receives from signaling, speech or the DOCSIS packet of hfc plant 132 and by converter function 140 and generates the packet that is equal to, to transfer on the equipment that is connected based on 1394 network 136.For example, be converted into 1394 pre-configured packets from the ring request of MGCP layer 124, with the ring target device.
Serial bus management device (SBM) 142 provides basic controlled function, with Control Node and management bus resource.An assembly that is defined as the SMB142 of Isochronous Resource Manager (IRM) is used to distribute bandwidth and other service that comprises the isochronous resources of synchronous access bus to concentrate need, to send voice packets.Other agreement in the stack 134 of family's network side (being transaction layer 143, link layer 145, physical layer 147) has description and is well known in the present technique field in the IEEE1394 standard.
Fig. 7 shows the example that is used for setting up between two equipment that are connected to based on the home network of IEEE1394 by hfc plant the call flow that speech connects.Specifically, the call flow of Fig. 7 QoS that described mode by reservation of resource in two networks and provide in hfc plant expands to the method in the home network.As shown in the figure, call flow (is denoted as equipment from first equipment
0) off-hook begins (A).Off hook state is by being connected to equipment
0Home networking gateway detect and (to be denoted as HNG
0), it then receives the numeral (B) by this equipment input.Then, these numerals are sent to relevant call management system (CMS
0) (C), in return, this system sends connect (CRCX) and asks to HNG
0(D).HNG
0Confirm this connection (E) by Session Description Protocol (SDP) packet, this packet has been specified client address, host-host protocol, port-mark and the audio configuration (profile) that will receive voice data.This audio configuration has defined transformat (can based on G.711, G.729, perhaps other any acceptable audio transmission form).The call flow that is used for establishing connections to the voice call between two client computer of a cable network has further detailed description and thinks and know for everybody in the present technique field in " based on the call signaling protocol (PacketCable Network Based Call SignalingProtocol) of PacketCable network " standard and " PacketCable dynamic quality of service (PacketCableDynamicQuality-of-Service) " standard.
As shown in Figure 7, target CMS (is denoted as CMS
T) with caller HNG
0The SDP parameter of sending is sent to target HNG with CRCX
T(F).In the present embodiment, target HNG
TFrom the SDP parameter, calculate the required resource of this calling and in home network, keep these resources.Equally as shown in Figure 7, target HNG
TWith may be positioned at HNG
TThe call distribution bandwidth of just setting up is thought in interior Isochronous Resource Manager (IRM) communication (G).Target HNG
TAlso carry out channel allocation (H), think the required channel of this calling appointment.Similarly, target device (equipment
T) distribute bandwidth and channel (I) from IRM.In the present embodiment, in home network behind the reservation of resource, target HNG
TAdd (DSA) message with CMTS exchange dynamic Service, with reservation of resource in hfc plant (J).In case resource is retained on the docsis layer, CMS starts
0Sending a modification connection (MDCX) asks to caller HNG
0, with reservation of resource in home network (K).As mentioned above, for target HNG
TAnd equipment
T, equipment
0And HNG
0Also (L) by its IRM reservation of resource (as shown in Figure 7).(RQNT) is sent to target HNG in the ring request
TBefore, the HNG that starts
0Also by CMTS reservation of resource (M).
Call flow as shown in Figure 7 only shows the signaling between household equipment, HNG30, CMS16 and the CMTS12.Should be appreciated that well known in the art and other signaling of not illustrating in this manual also at the CMTS that starts
0And CMS
0With target CMTS
TAnd CMS
TBetween carry out.
Fig. 8 shows and can be used for realization in conjunction with a kind of replacement protocol stack among the HNG of the present invention of " bluetooth " home network 200, and blueteeth network has a detailed description in " bluetooth 1.0 versions " standard.As shown in the figure, the protocol stack 210 of hfc plant side is identical with situation described in conjunction with Figure 6 basically.In this case, on family's network side 211, phone application 220 utilizes bluetooth service discovery protocol (SDP) 230 to determine available service in the blueteeth network 200.For example, HNG can use SDP agreement 230 to find to have the equipment of telephone service function.This function of HNG will further be described in conjunction with Figure 10 below.Phone application 220 utilizes phone control standard-binary system (TCS-BIN) 240 to set up and control voice call session.Connect in case initiate voice, TCS-BIN240 just allows the voice key-course 250 that is used for connection (or disconnection) voice path control.Phone application 220 is also used link layer by TCS-BIN240 and SDP230 agreement.Specifically, link layer comprises two agreements: link manager protocol (LMP) 260 and logic link control and adapting protocol (L2CAP) 270.LMP260 is responsible for the link establishment between the bluetooth equipment, comprises such as safety problems such as authentication and encryptions, and the connection status of being responsible for the control bluetooth equipment.L2CAP270 is adaptive upper-layer protocol on base band 280.It also provides protocol multiplexing ability, segmentation and reassemble operation to upper-layer protocol.The communication that bluetooth wireless protocol 281 is supported by blueteeth network.
Fig. 9 shows by supporting the hfc plant of QoS to set up the example call flow of voice call session in two kinds of networks between two bluetooth equipments.In a preferred embodiment, as long as it avoids the long call set-up time that causes owing to page procedure, equipment
0Set up and HNG
0L2CAP connect (a).Equipment
0Send TCS-SETUP message (b) and give HNG
0Call out to set up.TCS-SETUP message comprises various information, comprises being used for determining that this calling is whether towards class of call, bearer network performance, calling party and the callee's of external network number.The bearer network performance information points out will use which Bearer Channel in calling procedure.When carrying out voice call, indication be Bearer Channel towards synchronous connection (SCO), and the SCO link with type of data packet of indication sends out (c) and speech coding will be used in the voice path of being set up by voice control protocol 250.In case receive from equipment
0TCS-SETUP, HNG starts
0Set up as above to call out and connect in conjunction with the described MGCP/DQOS of Fig. 7.Then, receiving from CMS
TRing request (e) after, target HNG
TSend TCS-SETUP message (d) to called bluetooth equipment (equipment
T).As shown in Figure 9, before accepting this calling, by using by called bluetooth equipment
0Send to target HNG
TCONNECT message set up the SCO link.At originating terminal, also before receiving this calling by HNG
0Set up the SCO link.As mentioned above, in setting up the SCO link, HNG or bluetooth telephone equipment use the pointed parameter of load-carrying properties data in TCS-SETUP message.
Figure 10 shows according to the present invention and is used for the flow chart that " discovery " is connected to the bluetooth equipment of HNG.Specifically, HNG sets up link (step 310) with every found equipment then by the bluetooth equipment (step 300) that the bluetooth inquiry procedures search has connected.Then, the HNG equipment that utilizes SDP agreement (step 320) to find out to have the telephone service performance and on local storage medium the address (step 330) of every equipment of storage.These results also can be sent to (step 340) Element management system (EMS), to carry out equipment control.
Only show various embodiment of the present invention above.Those of ordinary skill in the art should design the multiple arrangement that embodies principle of the present invention within the spirit and scope of the present invention, though they are not clearly shown that in this manual or describe.
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1. arrangement that is used between Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) network and domestic communication system, providing communication interface, this arrangement comprises:
Home networking gateway, be used for the communication of communicating by letter and being connected to home network with hfc plant, this home networking gateway comprises and is used for the transducer that shines upon between based on the communication protocol of HFC and the agreement based on home network that described home networking gateway is used for carrying out the device discovery and the network management of described home network;
Device databases links to described home networking gateway and comprises and the relevant configuration file of various families telecommunication apparatus; And
The service level agreement database links to described home networking gateway and comprises at the tabulation of the authorization service of home network, service class information and quality of service information.
2. arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein said home networking gateway comprises:
Be used to support the home network interface link block of predefined family communication protocol;
Link to the voiceband telephone service link block of described home network interface link block, be used to provide and the communicating by letter of home phone number equipment;
Be used to provide and the data, services link block of communicating by letter based on the household equipment of data;
Be used to provide the cable modem link block of communicating by letter with hfc plant;
Link to the communication bus of each voiceband telephone service link block, data, services link block and cable modem link block, be used to support the communication between each module; And
Link to the conversion processor of communication bus, be used between employed communication protocol of hfc plant and the employed agreement of home network, shining upon and give the agreement of the conversion that each affairs provide.
3. arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein said voiceband telephone service link block comprises that Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (SLIC) connects.
4. arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein said data, services link block comprise that Ethernet connects.
5. arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein said home-network protocols are the wireless service agreements.
6. arrangement as claimed in claim 5, wherein said wireless protocols comprise shared WAP (wireless access protocol) (SWAP).
7. arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein said home-network protocols comprise HPNA Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) agreement.
8. arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein said home-network protocols comprise IEEE1394 FireWire agreement.
9. arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein said home networking gateway also comprises the internal battery power supply.
10. arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein said home networking gateway also comprises the digital signal processor (DSP) that is bound up between speech link block and the home network interface module, by described home network interface voice signal is transferred in the home network from described voice communication module.
11. the home network for communication equipment provides the method for network management, described communication equipment links to outside hfc plant by home networking gateway, and this method may further comprise the steps:
With a plurality of equipment and the service of home networking gateway actuating equipment discovery procedure to determine to exist in the home network; And
Give equipment management system the report information of finding.
12. method as claimed in claim 11 also provides by household equipment institute's requested service and this method also to comprise additional step:
On home networking gateway, identify service request from family's network equipment;
For described service is obtained mandate from network management system;
In case obtain the authorization, to the described service of call management system request; And
The equipment of described service to the request of sending is provided.
13. method as claimed in claim 11, wherein said method also are used to carry out allocated bandwidth and comprise additional step:
On home networking gateway, identify the request of equipment to bandwidth;
Obtain the mandate bandwidth from network management system;
In case obtain the authorization, to Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) bandwidth on demand;
On hfc plant, distribute the bandwidth of being asked; And
On home network, distribute the bandwidth of being asked to give the equipment of request that sends by home networking gateway.
14. one kind is used at Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) network and comprises the system that communication interface is provided between the domestic communication system of family's telecommunication apparatus at least, this system comprises:
Home networking gateway, between hfc plant and home network, home networking gateway comprises that is used for a transducer that shines upon between based on the communication protocol of HFC and the agreement based on home network; And
Device databases, link to described home networking gateway and comprise with shown in the relevant configuration file of family's telecommunication apparatus of at least one portion.
15. system as claimed in claim 14 also comprises the discovery unit that is used to find to be positioned at the equipment on the described domestic communication system.
16. system as claimed in claim 14 also comprises the service level agreement database, it links to described home networking gateway and comprises the tabulation of home network.
17. system as claimed in claim 16, wherein said information comprises at least one in the following information type: service class or service quality.
18. a home network that is used to communication equipment provides the method for network management, this method may further comprise the steps:
The actuating equipment discovery procedure is to determine to link to a plurality of equipment of home network; And
Give equipment management system the described report information of having found.
19. method as claimed in claim 18, also comprise determine service that found every equipment has been authorized to and described fixed service report to described equipment management system.
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