EP1334585A1 - Procede et systeme pour la diffusion de messages multidestinations utilisant des representants - Google Patents
Procede et systeme pour la diffusion de messages multidestinations utilisant des representantsInfo
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- EP1334585A1 EP1334585A1 EP01993088A EP01993088A EP1334585A1 EP 1334585 A1 EP1334585 A1 EP 1334585A1 EP 01993088 A EP01993088 A EP 01993088A EP 01993088 A EP01993088 A EP 01993088A EP 1334585 A1 EP1334585 A1 EP 1334585A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- H04L12/00—Data switching networks
- H04L12/02—Details
- H04L12/16—Arrangements for providing special services to substations
- H04L12/18—Arrangements for providing special services to substations for broadcast or conference, e.g. multicast
- H04L12/1836—Arrangements for providing special services to substations for broadcast or conference, e.g. multicast with heterogeneous network architecture
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- H04L12/00—Data switching networks
- H04L12/02—Details
- H04L12/16—Arrangements for providing special services to substations
- H04L12/18—Arrangements for providing special services to substations for broadcast or conference, e.g. multicast
- H04L12/185—Arrangements for providing special services to substations for broadcast or conference, e.g. multicast with management of multicast group membership
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- the invention relates to a telecommunication method and system using an internet protocol for broadcasting multidestination messages.
- Point-to-multipoint connections are also useful for video conferences or online commerce, such as auctions
- the transmitter transmits the information only once to the first node of the network and this multidestination information is only transmitted '' once on each channel from each node. Under these conditions, the load on the servers and the network is limited.
- FIGS. 1a and 1b The advantage of this type of dissemination of multidestination information appears when we consider FIGS. 1a and 1b in which FIG. 1a is a diagram of a network in which the multidestination information is considered to constitute n (number of recipients) information single destinations, and FIG. 1b is a diagram of a network in which the multi-destination information is processed collectively.
- the server / transmitter 10 which must transmit the same information to three servers / receivers 12, 14 and 16, transmits three identical information 18- ) , I 82 and I 83, which are routed by routers or switching devices individually.
- the first router 20 receives the three information 18-
- the first router 20 transmits the information I82 and 83 to another router 24 which, for its part, transmits the information I 82 to the terminal 14 via a router 26 and the information I83 to the terminal 16 via yet another router 28.
- the transmitter 10 transmits the information 18 to the router 20 with an indication of the recipients. At the router 20, this information is transmitted, on the one hand, to the router 22 and, on the other hand, to the router 24. It is thus seen that, with respect to the diagram in FIG. La, the traffic between the transmitter 10 and router 20, and between router 20 and router 24. In what follows, only the multidestination transmission method as shown in FIG. 1b will be considered.
- IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
- IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
- signaling traffic consists of a periodic request sent by a router and a single response, or a limited number of responses, to this router.
- the only information that the router or the management body needs is to determine whether multicast broadcasting is still necessary, that is to say if at least one terminal still constitutes one of the recipients.
- the invention results from the observation that this standard making it possible to limit signaling traffic in a multicast broadcast, is not applicable in a satellite telecommunications system. Indeed, on the one hand the time delays are too short and, on the other hand, the response of a terminal to a request cannot, in general, not be detected by the other terminals.
- each terminal responds to the router request and, therefore, the signaling traffic can be significant.
- the system will be loaded by ten million responses, i.e. ten million packets of 55 bytes each. This overload thus translates into an additional flow of around 70 Megabit / s. In addition, this traffic is concentrated on a few tens of milliseconds.
- the invention provides a multi-destination group management unit and the selection, for each group, of a telecommunication terminal representative of the group which periodically sends a group signal to the group management unit. indication of his status as a member of the group. Under these conditions, signaling traffic is limited to a single response, as in a system for detecting responses from other terminals.
- the telecommunication terminal sends a start message when it leaves the multidestination group so that the management body can designate another telecommunication terminal representative of the group.
- the representative telecommunications terminal is, for example, the one whose subscription, or connection to the group, is the oldest.
- the periodic sending, by the representative telecommunications terminal, of a presence signal to the management body is carried out without request from the management body.
- the frequency of transmission of these presence signals is preferably relatively low, less than the frequency of requests from the lETF standard.
- the period between two transmissions of presence signals is, for example, substantially greater than one minute.
- the invention thus relates, in general, to a telecommunication method in which multidestination information is transmitted from a terminal or from a server to a multiplicity of recipients, this transmission being carried out according to a protocol of the IP (Internet Protocol) type.
- IP Internet Protocol
- a control member being provided for detecting the presence of at least one recipient; this process being such that a recipient or, at most, a limited number of such recipients, is given the function of representative of the group and in that this recipient periodically transmits a presence signal to the control unit.
- the assignment of the representative function to a recipient is carried out from the control unit.
- a signed! presence is not detected after a predetermined time by the control unit, another recipient is appointed representative of the multidestination group.
- the control unit stops the transmission of multidestination information when, after the transmission, by this control unit, of a request signal, it notes the absence of reception a presence signal.
- the recipient representative of the group can spontaneously send, without receiving a request signal, presence signals with a determined periodicity, for example of the order of a minute.
- the frequency of transmission of the presence signals is lower than the frequency of transmission of the requests proposed by the IGMP standard.
- each recipient comprises a telecommunication terminal for connection to the telecommunication network and at least one user terminal, and the communication between the telecommunication terminal and the user terminal (s). ) is carried out according to the IGMP protocol.
- This method advantageously applies to telecommunications carried out by a satellite transmission system (s).
- a satellite transmission system preferably at least one recipient represents the group in each beam.
- the method also relates to telecommunications effected by a transmission system by safellite (s) comprising a central management station; this system being such that the earth is divided into zones and each zone comprises a connection station for connecting the terminals of the zone in question to other telecommunication networks, and the management body is located in the central management station of this system, or in a connection station.
- the invention also relates to a telecommunication terminal, recipient of a telecommunication system using the IP protocol and capable of receiving multidestination information, which is characterized in that it comprises means for receiving a delegation signal giving it the function representative of a group of recipients of multidestination information and means for transmitting presence signals when he is so appointed representative.
- this terminal includes means for periodically transmitting the presence signals.
- the frequency of transmission of presence signals is lower than the frequency of transmission of the request signals proposed by the IGMP protocol.
- the terminal comprises means for transmitting a presence signal on receipt of a request signal, when this terminal is not representative of the group but is part of the multidestination group.
- the terminal is intended to receive signals via a telecommunications satellite.
- FIGS. 1a and 1b represent a network
- Figure 2 is a diagram of a telecommunications network to which the invention applies
- Figure 3 is a diagram illustrating a method according to the invention
- Figure 4 is a diagram similar to that of Figure 3 illustrating another aspect of the method according to the invention
- FIG. 5 is a diagram of another embodiment of the telecommunications network to which the invention applies
- FIG. 6 is a diagram similar to that of FIGS. 3 and 4 showing the method according to the invention applied to the telecommunications system of FIG. 5.
- a single or multibeam geostationary satellite telecommunication system will be described here.
- the earth is divided into zones (not shown) and to each zone is assigned a base station 40 (FIG. 2) communicating with other networks, as well as with the other base stations of the other areas via a router 42 connected to the station 40 ( Figure 2).
- each user terminal communicates with the network or another terminal in the same zone by means of equipment on board a satellite 46.
- a message sent by a user terminal is sent to satellite 46 which retransmits it to base station 40 and the latter retransmits the message to another terminal (not shown) by means of the equipment on board satellite 46.
- This telecommunications system includes a network control or management center 50 with a control station 52.
- the invention consists in providing a management organ 54 for multi-destination groups, for example installed at the management center 50 of the satellite network if the operator is also an Internet service provider.
- This organ 54 for managing multidestination groups has the function, according to the invention, of designating (arrow 60 in FIG. 3) a telecommunication terminal 72 forming part of a group so that the latter represents the group.
- This management body maintains the transmission of information multidestinations as long as a telecommunications terminal transmits a presence signal indicating its membership of the multidestination group.
- the telecommunications terminal 72 to periodically send presence signals 62, or reports, to the management unit 54 without even receiving a request signal 64 (FIG. 4) from this unit 54.
- these presence signals 60 and 62, and possibly request 64 (FIG. 4) are transmitted by means of the equipment on board the satellite 46.
- Another terminal 721 (FIG. 4) belonging to the same group, that is to say intended to receive multidestination information, does not spontaneously emit a presence signal. However, it sends such a presence signal 62] when it receives a request 64 from the management body 54. Such a request signal 64 is sent when the management body 54 notes that it no longer receives presence signals 62 from the delegate terminal 72; under these conditions, he must appoint another delegate. If the management unit 54 receives a presence signal 62], it chooses as delegate one of the terminals having sent this presence signal 62]. In the opposite case, that is to say if the member 54 does not receive a presence signal 62], indicating that a terminal is part of a multidestination group, then this member commands the interruption of the transmission of multidestination signals.
- the conventional method of the IGMP standard cannot function in such a satellite telecommunications system because the terminals cannot detect in time, or even not detect at all, the presence signals 62 emitted by the other terminals. It is recalled, in fact, that in the IGMP protocol, the presence signal is transmitted in response to a request from a management body, with a random duration delay and all the terminals detect the emission of the presence signals of the other terminals when a presence signal has been sent by one of the terminals. In this case, all the other terminals interrupt the time delay and do not emit a presence signal.
- the difficulty in using the IGMP protocol in the satellite telecommunications network stems from the fact, first of all, that, according to the standard, the delay between the reception of the request and the transmission of a presence signal is at maximum of 20 milliseconds. This duration is too short to allow reception of a presence signal, due to the signal propagation times in a satellite transmission system.
- the directivity of the transmission from each terminal, as well as the coding or modulation of the signals transmitted by each of these terminals are such that they cannot be, without modification, received by other terminals.
- the telecommunications terminals 72, 72] for the reception of the delegation signals 60 and the transmission of the presence signals 62, one or more terminals 70 are associated, as described below, using the protocol of the IGMP standard.
- the terminals 70 are provided with conventional means.
- the telecommunications terminal 72 allows the connection to the network of several user terminals. Since the telecommunications terminal 72 and the user terminal 70 use the IGMP protocol, this terminal 72 and the user terminal 70 communicate according to this protocol with, on the part of the telecommunications terminal 72, the periodic transmission of requests 74 and, on the part of the user terminal 70, the response by a presence signal 76 after a random duration. This local protocol is used when several user terminals are connected to terminal 72.
- the telecommunications system comprises several zones resulting in different beams for the satellite, provision is made, by beam, for a telecommunications terminal delegated from the multidestination group.
- the telecommunications terminal and the user terminal form a single terminal.
- the example which has been described in relation to FIGS. 2 to 4 is adapted to the case for which the operator of the satellite telecommunications network is also an Internet service provider, that is to say that is, it can house, in the central station 50, the group management unit 54.
- the operator of the satellite telecommunications system is not an Internet service provider, this provider being external to the telecommunications system.
- the Internet service provider 80 is connected to a base station 40 of the satellite telecommunications system.
- the management device is arranged in the connection station 40.
- the method is the same as that described in relation to FIGS. 2 to 4.
- the delegation signal 60 is transmitted from the management device installed in the connection station 40 to the delegated telecommunication terminal 72 and then the delegated terminal transmits periodic presence signals 62.
- station 40 and station 80 of the Internet service provider is carried out in a conventional manner and using the standardized protocol.
- FIGS. 3 and 6 show, by the spacing between the arrows 62, compared with the spacings between arrows 74, that the transmission frequency of the signals 62 is lower than the transmission frequency of the requests in the IGMP protocol.
- the signaling load is, it should be remembered, of approximately 70 Megabit / s on the "return" channel, that is to say say terminals to the management body.
- the signaling load is, all other things remaining equal, then divided by 2000, since only one telecommunications terminal transmits a presence signal on the 2000 of each group.
- the signaling load is reduced to 35 Kbits / s.
- the frequency of the presence signals 62 is lower than the frequency provided for in the IGMP protocol, the signaling load is further reduced.
- the load In the case where the telecommunication system is multibeam, for example with 60 beams, the load must however be multiplied by the number of beams. But, in this case, in any case, this signaling charge always remains very much lower than it would be without the invention.
- the invention is not limited to a method and a telecommunications system. It also relates to the various elements of the system, notably the terminals, and to the management bodies.
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