EP1163768A1 - Suppression de trafic dans un reseau a protocole internet aux fins de l'optimisation de la qualite des signaux vocaux - Google Patents

Suppression de trafic dans un reseau a protocole internet aux fins de l'optimisation de la qualite des signaux vocaux

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EP1163768A1
EP1163768A1 EP00921205A EP00921205A EP1163768A1 EP 1163768 A1 EP1163768 A1 EP 1163768A1 EP 00921205 A EP00921205 A EP 00921205A EP 00921205 A EP00921205 A EP 00921205A EP 1163768 A1 EP1163768 A1 EP 1163768A1
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communications link
network communications
discarding
parameters
data
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Lars Westberg
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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
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    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L47/00—Traffic control in data switching networks
    • H04L47/10—Flow control; Congestion control
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L47/00—Traffic control in data switching networks
    • H04L47/10—Flow control; Congestion control
    • H04L47/11—Identifying congestion
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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    • H04L47/00—Traffic control in data switching networks
    • H04L47/10—Flow control; Congestion control
    • H04L47/24—Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS
    • H04L47/2416—Real-time traffic
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L47/00—Traffic control in data switching networks
    • H04L47/10—Flow control; Congestion control
    • H04L47/32—Flow control; Congestion control by discarding or delaying data units, e.g. packets or frames
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • H04L69/04—Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • H04L69/16—Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
    • H04L69/161—Implementation details of TCP/IP or UDP/IP stack architecture; Specification of modified or new header fields
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    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • H04L69/16—Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
    • H04L69/163—In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures
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    • H04L69/16—Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]

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  • the present invention relates to overload situations within IP-network communications links, and more particularly, to a method for relieving an overload situation within an IP-network communications link in a manner that optimizes the quality of speech signals within the communications link.
  • a cellular access network signals are transmitted through an air interface portion 15 and an IP transmission network 20 as shown in FIGURE 1.
  • the IP transmission network 20 utilizes IP -network communications links to move data through the network 20.
  • the speech quality considerations are essentially due to the quality of signal (QOS) degradation occurring over the air interface 15.
  • QOS degradation in the IP transmission network 20 must be negligible when compared to degradation on the air interface 15 or speech signal quality becomes unacceptable.
  • the main signal degradation problem arising in IP-network communications links of the IP transmission network 20 occurs during certain overload situations which require the IP transmission network to discard traffic. This involves the discarding of data packets from the IP-network communications links.
  • the overload situation may be triggered by a link failure or other re-rerouting actions in the IP transmission network 20. In many cases, the overload situation may be only temporary such as in the case of statistical multiplexing. However, in all of these situations, the overflow traffic must be discarded in such a way as to avoid the lowering of speech signal quality.
  • the problem with existing IP based networks arises from the fact that they are optimized for a best-effort application that provides the best overall signal quality. The quality of signal mechanism is optimized in a similar manner.
  • the current method is optimized in the flow control mechanisms of the TCP-protocol such that routers will discard packet traffic in a random manner enabling the system to control traffic in a fair way that randomly discards packets without giving particular preference to any type of packet or the associated connection. While this may be acceptable to overall traffic performance, this can have a detrimental effect on the speech signal quality.
  • the present invention overcomes the foregoing and other problems with a method for discarding data within an IP -network communications link in a manner that optimizes the quality of speech data on the communications link.
  • An IP -network communications link is monitored for the occurrence of an overload condition on the link.
  • specific groups of data are selected within the IP-network communications link.
  • the packet payloads of data packets within the communications link are separated into important parameters and less important parameters. The less important parameters are selected and discarded from a plurality of data packets within the IP -network communications link.
  • select groups of data packets referred to as real-time flow sessions containing data packets having the same source and destination IP addresses and source and destination ports, and consisting of encapsulated video, audio, etc. signals, are selected and deleted from the IP-network communications link. In this manner, only a single or a few real-time flow session need be eliminated from the link, and the remaining links remain unaffected.
  • FIGURE 1 is a block diagram illustrating a cellular access network
  • FIGURE 2 is a block diagram illustrating the transmission of data packets over a IP -network communications link
  • FIGURE 3 is an illustration of a first embodiment of the present invention wherein a portion of a plurality of packet payloads are deleted from data packets within the IP -network communications link;
  • FIGURE 4 is a block diagram illustrating the method of FIGURE 3;
  • FIGURE 5 illustrates an alternative embodiment of the present invention wherein data packets from a single real-time flow are deleted from the IP -network communications link; and
  • FIGURE 6 is a flow diagram illustrating the method of FIGURE 5.
  • FIGURE 2 there is illustrated a single IP-network communications link 25 on an IP transmission network 20 (FIGURE 1).
  • the communications link 25 Upon the communications link 25 are multiple data packets 30 including a packet header 35 and a payload 40.
  • the packet header 35 includes information enabling the data packet 30 to be transmitted over the IP -network communications link 25.
  • the payload 40 comprises the information being transmitted over the IP-network communications link 25 between source and destination locations.
  • the packet header 35 includes fixed value parameters 45 and non-fixed value parameters 50.
  • the fixed value parameters do not often change during a call and only need to be sent a few times during a call.
  • the non-fixed value parameters 50 change frequently during a call and are coded and always transmitted in a compressed header. This manner of only transmitting the fixed values a few times during a call is referred to as header compression. This is accomplished by including a record 55 at each end of the IP -network communications link 25 that includes the fixed parameters 45 which are not being transmitted. There is one record made for each real-time flow proceeding from a source location to a destination location.
  • an overload condition detected on the IP-network communications link 25 may be alleviated without degrading the quality of speech signals (i.e., the manner in which the audio signals are perceived at a receiving end is not severely degraded) on the communications link 25.
  • An overload condition occurs when more traffic (i.e., data packets) are present on the communications link than can be handled.
  • multiple data packets 30 on the IP -network communications link 25 have their packet payloads 40 sorted to determine the important parameters 70 and less important parameters 75 contained in each data packet 30. The designation of important and less-important parameters is normally performed before or during packetization of the data.
  • the less important parameter 75 from each packet payload 40 are selected and discarded from each data packet 30 by local routers within the IP network such that the full data packet 30 becomes a truncated data packet 30a including only the important parameters 70 of the data payload 40 and the packet leader 35. In this way, each data packet 30 is transmitted as a truncated or partial packet 30a rather than the full packet originally provided.
  • the quality of the speech signals within the IP-network communications link 25 is maintained at a high level despite the fact that the less important parameters are deleted.
  • the divisions into important and less important parameters are carried out normally by the signal processing protocol, but other methods for prioritizing the parameters may be used. Referring now to FIGURE 4, there is illustrated a flow diagram describing the method of FIGURE 3.
  • the IP -network communications link 25 is monitored at step 80 for the occurrence of an overload condition.
  • the important and less important parameters of the packet payload 40 within the data packet 30 are noted at step 85 as discussed above.
  • the less important parameters are selected at step 90 from a plurality of the data packets 30, and the selected parameters are discarded at step 95.
  • the packet headers may also have header compression applied at step 100, and the truncated packets 30a are transmitted at step 105 over the IP -network communications link 25.
  • a number of data packets 30 may be entirely deleted from the IP-network communications link 25.
  • a determination is made by the local routers of the IP networks of the real-time process flows to which each packet 30 within the IP-network communications link 25 is associated by reading the information contained within packet headers 35.
  • a real-time process flow comprises a plurality of data packets having the same source and destination IP addresses and the same source and destination ports.
  • a real-time process flow may also comprise portions of a multiplexed data flow which come from a single data flow source before multiplexing. Each data packet 30 having this same information is considered to be from the same real-time process flow.
  • a single IP -network communications link 25 can have a plurality of real-time flows associated therewith as illustrated in FIGURE 3 by reference number 30a, 30b and 30c. From a speech signal quality point of view, it is better to drop a single one of the real-time flows, for example 30b, rather than to drop packets from each of the real-time flows. Thus, by dropping the real-time flow represented by 30b, the IP- network communications link 25 would be converted to include only the real-time flows 30a and 30c as shown. While the signal for the real-time flow 30b would be entirely lost, the quality of signal for real-time flows 30a and 30c would remain unaffected. A determination of which real time flow to drop may be made at random or based upon any number of methods.
  • the methods include but are not limited to dropping flows based upon prioritizations within the packet header; assigning certain addresses to have a higher priority; having control signals dynamically select parameters to be deleted; providing priority to particular bearer protocols; or discarding from a last connected real time flow.
  • the IP -network communications link 25 is monitored for the occurrence of an overload condition at step 120. Upon detection of the overload condition, the determination of real-time flows presently supported by a IP -network communications link 25 are determined at step 125. After determination of at least one real-time flow, a single real-time flow is selected at step 130 by routers of the IP network, and the selected real-time flow is discarded from the IP -network communications link 25 at step 135. The optional step of packet header compression may be performed on the remaining data packets 30 at step 140, and the remaining packets are transmitted over the IP-network communications link at step 145.

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Abstract

Cette invention a trait à une technique permettant de supprimer des données dans une liaison de communications d'un réseau à protocole Internet (IP) (10) d'une façon telle que la qualité des données vocales contenues dans cette liaison de communications d'un réseau IP (10) s'en trouve optimisée. On exerce, au départ, une surveillance sur la liaison de communications du réseau IP (10) afin de déterminer la survenue d'une situation de surcharge. On sélectionne au moins une partie d'une pluralité de paquets de données (30) dans la liaison de communications du réseau IP (10) en réaction à la détection de la situation de surcharge. On supprime alors les parties sélectionnées dans la liaison de communications d'un réseau IP (10) et l'on transmet sur la liaison (10) ce qui reste des paquets (30).
EP00921205A 1999-03-23 2000-03-08 Suppression de trafic dans un reseau a protocole internet aux fins de l'optimisation de la qualite des signaux vocaux Withdrawn EP1163768A1 (fr)

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