WO2000048422A1 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing devices in atm based base station subsystems using special virtual channel connections - Google Patents
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- This invention relates in general to a method and apparatus for providing synchronicity between network devices, and more particularly to method and 10 apparatus for synchronizing devices in ATM based base station subsystems using special virtual channel connections.
- PCN personal communication networks
- each geographic cell is served by a separate base station that provides wireless telecommunications services to station sets located within the cell.
- transmissions and receptions by base stations must be synchronized with each other and with a transcoder.
- PCM pulse-coded modulation
- Transcoders or more generally Interworking Function (IWF) between ATM and PCM, inherit a common network clock from PSTN or MSC.
- IWF Interworking Function
- BTSs base transceiver stations
- Clocks i.e., oscillators
- oscillators in BTSs are quite accurate. This means that the oscillators can run free without synchronization quite a long time, e.g., a week.
- Synchronization techniques exist which are able to synchronize two end elements over ATM. For example, in an ATM based cellular network there are a plurality of BTSs in the edge of the ATM cloud. Synchronization is missing in the physical level, so the BTSs should be synchronized by some other method.
- the synchronization techniques are based on time stamps, an investigation of the mean arrival rate of incoming ATM cells or the investigation of the filling level of the buffer for the incoming ATM cells. Still, these synchronization techniques are all based on scanning the cell rate of the traffic channels.
- traffic channels poses a problem, because the cell rate or bit rate of speech traffic channels is rather low and getting even lower, and, in the future, the traffic flow will be variable rather than constant. Therefore, deducing the clock from the low, variable bit rate traffic channel is difficult and takes a long time.
- One contributing factor is the elimination of the CDV (Cell Delay Variation) which takes too much time, and the duration of a single cell is usually not enough for this. The synchronization can even be impossible because of the variable bit rate connection. It can be seen that there is a need for a method and apparatus for synchronizing BTSs at the edge of an ATM cloud.
- the present invention discloses a method and apparatus for synchronizing devices in ATM based base station subsystems using special ATM virtual channel connections.
- the present invention solves the above-described problems by providing a high, constant bit rate connection to the BTSs via the ATM cloud that is primarily for synchronization.
- a method in accordance with the principles of the present invention includes establishing a high, constant bit rate virtual channel connection to each of the plurality of remote devices from the transmitting device and broadcasting data cells to the plurality of remote devices for processing by the plurality of remote devices to deduce a clock frequency for synchronization thereto.
- remote devices comprise base transceiver stations.
- the transmitting device is an interworking function device.
- the interworking function device comprises a transcoder.
- the transmitting device and the remote device are connected via an asynchronous connection, the asynchronous connection preventing the physical transmission of the clock of the transmitting device.
- the data cells provide a synchronous residual timestamp for allowing the plurality of remote devices to deduce the clock of the transmitting device and to synchronize thereto.
- the method further includes analyzing at the plurality of remote devices to deduce the arrival time of the data cells, calculating a difference between the arrival time of the cells and an expected arrival time, and adjusting the clocks of the plurality of remote devices according to the calculated difference to synchronize the clocks of the plurality of remote devices to the transmitting device.
- the method further includes storing the calculated difference for N cells, deriving a mean arrival time for N cells, and adjusting the clocks of the plurality of remote devices according to the means arrival time for N cells to synchronize the clocks of the plurality of remote devices to the transmitting device.
- the method further includes analyzing a buffer in the plurality of remote devices to determine a filling level of the buffer and adjusting the clocks of the plurality of remote devices according to the filling level of the buffer for the plurality of remote devices to synchronize the clocks of the plurality of remote devices to the transmitting device.
- a cellular communications system includes a plurality of base transceiver stations, the plurality of base transceiver stations being coupled to an ATM network and an Interworking Unit comprising a transcoder, coupled to the ATM network, for providing interworking functions between the ATM network and a telecommunications system, wherein the Interworking Unit establishes a high, constant bit rate virtual channel connection to each of the plurality of base transceiver stations and broadcasts data cells to the plurality of remote devices over the high, constant bit rate virtual channel connections to the plurality of base transceiver stations to allow the plurality of base transceiver stations to deduce a clock frequency of the Interworking Unit for synchronization thereto.
- Fig. 1 illustrates the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) physical layer
- Fig. 2 illustrates an ATM cell
- Fig. 3 illustrates VPI and VCI operations
- Fig. 4 illustrates a telecommunications system, wherein a transcoder is used as an Interworking Function between the ATM cloud and the PCM networks according to the present invention
- Fig. 5 illustrates a more detailed block diagram of the BTS and IWF according to the present invention
- Fig. 6 illustrates the AAL1 -PDU
- Fig. 7 illustrates is a diagram of a system device wherein alternative methods for deducing the clock frequency may be demonstrated;
- Fig. 8 illustrates a system using an ATM connection wherein clock synchronization is needed;
- Fig. 9 shows the arrival of two adjacent cells at the receiving end of the connection as seen using the clock of the receiving device
- Fig. 10 illustrates a flow chart of the implementation wherein N cells are observed before adjusting the clock
- Fig. 11 illustrates a phase locked loop for correcting the frequency f- and
- Fig. 12 illustrates the use of ATM multicasting to send cell streams from the TC or IWF to BTSs for deducing the clock frequency in BTSs according to the present invention.
- the present invention provides a method and apparatus for synchronizing devices in ATM based base station subsystems using a special virtual channel.
- the present invention provides a high, constant bit rate connection to the BTSs via the ATM cloud that is primarily for synchronization.
- Fig. 1 illustrates the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) physical layer 100.
- Modern networks must handle multiple types of traffic such as video 110, voice 112, data files 114, and interactive data 116.
- the ATM Adaptation Layer 120 is a collection of standardized protocols that provide services to higher layers by adapting user traffic to a cell format.
- the AAL 120 is divided into the Convergence Sublayer (CS) and the Segmentation and Reassembly (SAR) sublayer (not shown).
- the ATM Layer 130 is the second layer of the ATM protocol stack model 100 that constructs and processes the ATM cells.
- the functions of the ATM layer 130 also include Usage Parameter Control (UPC) and support of Quality of Service (QoS) classes.
- the physical layer 140 is the bottom layer of the ATM protocol reference model 100.
- the physical layer 140 is subdivided into two sublayers, the Transmission Convergence (TC) and the Physical Medium (PM) (also not shown).
- the physical layer 140 provides the ATM cells transmitted over the physical interfaces that interconnect ATM devices.
- ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- Fig. 2 illustrates an ATM cell 200.
- the cell 200 comprises 53 bytes.
- Each cell contain a 5 byte header 210 which comprises of identification, control priority and routing information.
- the rest 48 bytes are the actual data 220.
- ATM does not provide any error detection operations on the user payload inside the cell 200, and also provides no retransmission services, and only few operations are performed on the small header.
- ATM switches support two kinds of interfaces: user-network interface (UNI) and network-node interface (NNI).
- UNI user-network interface
- NNI network-node interface
- UNI connects ATM end systems (hosts, routers etc.) to an ATM switch
- an NNI may be imprecisely defined as an interface for connecting two ATM switches together.
- Recommendation requires that an ATM connection be identified with connection identifiers that are assigned for each user connection in the ATM network.
- VPI and VCI operations 300 are used in the ATM network by the switches to determine how to route the cell through the network.
- the video session's 310 connection is associated with VPI 4 312/VCI 10 314 at a first UNI 320 and VPI 20 330/VCI 33 332 at the other UNI 340.
- the manner in which VPI/VCI values are established and managed is left to the network administrator.
- the VPI/VCI numbers have local significance at each UNI.
- the network must assure that these local VPI/VCI values at each UNI are mapped together through the network. Both VPI and VCI combine together to form a virtual circuit identifier.
- a PVC Permanent Virtual Connections
- SVC Switched Virtual Connections
- a PVC is a connection set up by some external mechanism, typically network management, in which a set of switches between an ATM source and destination ATM systems are programmed with the appropriate VPI/VCI values. PVCs always require some manual configuration.
- An SVC is a connection that is set up automatically through signaling protocol. SVCs does not require the manual interaction needed to set up PVCs and, as such, are likely to be much more widely used. All higher layer protocols operating over ATM primarily uses SVCs.
- ATM adaptation layers (AALs) 120 as shown in Fig. 1 , provide mechanisms for supporting transport protocols over ATM cells.
- AAL1 and AAL2 have been defined by the ITU-T for use in the wide area for support of constant and variable bit rate services respectively and AAL 3/4 for connection-less data transport.
- AAL5 is proposed for all types of computer oriented multiservice traffic especially for the local area.
- AAL5 has lower pay-load overhead per cell and relies on quality of service and statistical mechanisms to provide multiservice capability.
- Fig. 4 illustrates a telecommunications system 400, wherein a transcoder 410 is used as an Interworking Function between the ATM 420 and the PCM networks 430, 432 according to the present invention.
- Transcoders (TC) 410 or more generally Interworking Function (IWF) between ATM 420 and PCM 430, 432, inherit a common network clock from PSTN 432 or MSC 430. The problem is then to deliver this clock to the BTSs 440. This is especially true if a public ATM network is used. Even in more private networks, some ATM switches can lack an ability to lock to a physical transmission clock.
- IWF Interworking Function
- the base transceiver stations (BTSs) 440 are coupled to the telecommunications network via ATM connections.
- the Transcoder (TC) 410 is essentially an Interworking Function (IWF) between the ATM 420 and the PCM 430, 432.
- the IWF 410 provides rate adaptation and data conversion between the ATM 420 and the PCM 430, 432.
- the PCM world can be a PSTN 432 or a MSC 430 depending of the phase of the ATM based network evolution.
- Transcoder Rate Adaptor Unit (TRAU) frames are transmitted over ATM 420 using either one-to-one mapping, i.e., AAL0, AAL1 or AAL2.
- the transmitting clock of the BTS 440 operates at the frequency f BTS and the receiving clock of the TC 410 operates at the frequency f ⁇ c . Because the transmission is now asynchronous, the TC 410 can not know the exact frequency of the BTS transmitter 440. If f BTS is a little bit higher than f ⁇ c and no DTX (Discontinuous Transmission) is used in the ATM 420, the receiving buffers of the TC 410 will overflow at some moment. Audible clicks will occur on the telephone connected to the PCM 430, 432 when a TRAU frame are discarded because of the overflow of the buffer. The same is true in the opposite direction, as well.
- the Interworking Unit 410 may not include a transcoder as shown in Fig. 4. Accordingly, those skilled in the art will recognize that if the transcoder is not included as a portion of the Interworking Unit, the synchronization virtual channel connections are needed either between Interworking Unit and the BTSs or between the transcoder and the BTSs, depending on the location of the transcoder.
- Fig. 5 illustrates a more detailed block diagram 500 of the BTS 540 and IWF 540 according to the present invention.
- the BTS 540 includes an ATM IF 542 and synchronous parts 544.
- the IWF 510 includes an ATM IF 512 and synchronous 514.
- the synchronous parts 514 of a IWF 510 has to be synchronized with the synchronous parts 544 of the BTS 540. If this is not done, clock asynchrony must be solved in some other manner to prevent overflows.
- Clock synchronization may be accomplished by physically transmitting the clock from PSTN 532 up to BTSs 540 or by deducing the clock frequency in some other manner.
- the clock can be propagated from PSTN 530, 532 up to BTSs 540 if all the transmission equipment, i.e., ATM switches, support this kind of clock locking. This method is the easiest way to ensure the synchrony.
- deducing the sender's clock frequency may be accomplished using either a timestamp, investigating of the mean arrival rate of incoming ATM cells or investigating the filling level of the buffer for the incoming ATM cells.
- FIG. 6 illustrates the AAL1 -PDU 600.
- a four bit field 600 is provided in the AAL1 - PDU which can be used for the SRTS.
- This process is defined in ITU Recommendation 1.363.
- the difference between the service bit-rate and the network related frequency is produced and the 4 Isbs of this difference are transmitted using 4 CSI bits in the SN field 610 from 8 successive ATM cells. These 4 bits comprise the SRTS.
- Both transmitter and receiver carry out this process and by comparing the locally produced SRTS with the received far-end SRTS, the local clock can be synchronized to the remote clock
- SRTS provides the residual clock between the source and the network clocks that is sent to the other end.
- a connection to the master clock source is needed.
- the clock can be propagated all over the network.
- AAL1 is not in use, this kind of method could be used with AAL0, AAL2 and AAL5.
- AAL0 i.e., one-to-one mapping
- an absolute timestamp field could be added to the cell, since there is space for it.
- Fig. 7 illustrates is a diagram of a system device 700 wherein alternative methods for deducing the clock frequency may be demonstrated.
- the device 700 includes a buffer 710 for receiving incoming cells 720.
- a processor 730 monitors and controls the buffer 710 to allow cells in the buffer 710 to be sent.
- a measurement of the filling level of the buffer 710 for incoming cells may be used. The purpose of measuring the filling level of the buffer 710 for incoming cells is to keep the filling level of the buffer 710 for incoming cells at some constant level. If the buffer 710 is filled, the clock frequency is increased a little until the filling level of the buffer 710 is again at the predetermined level. If the buffer 710 is going to underflow the clock frequency is decreased until the filling level of the buffer 710 is again at the predetermined level.
- Yet another method involves the principle of investigating the mean arrival rate of incoming cells, which requires knowledge of the arrival time of cells. For example, a device 700 at one end, end A, sends cells every t A and a processor 730 in device 700 the other end, end B, knows that the cell should come at the time t B . The processor calculates the time difference t B - t A , which is then used to adjust the clock. In ATM networks, the cell delay variation (CDV) can be diminished by using the median of the arrival time of, for example, ten cells. This method is especially well suited for ATM based GSM systems where one-to-one mapping is used. This method may be more fully illustrated with reference to Figs. 8 and 9.
- a Base Station Subsystem in a cellular network are connected using a synchronous PCM connection.
- one of the devices is selected as a master and its clock synchronizes the PCM frames sent over the connection.
- the second device a slave, synchronizes its own clock to the master.
- this synchronization is lost if two PCM devices are connected using an asynchronous ATM connection which doesn't transfer the synchronization at the physical level.
- Fig. 8 illustrates a system 800 using an ATM connection wherein clock synchronization is need. In Fig.
- TC 810 is shown sending data 812 to a BTS 820.
- TC 810 has a clock frequency of f t 830.
- BTS 820 has a clock frequency of f.832. As illustrated in Fig. 8, if the two clocks 830, 832 had exactly the same frequency, no problem would arise since the transmitting and the receiving end operate at the same speed.
- the TRAU-frame contains 20 ms of coded speech.
- Fig. 9 shows the arrival of two adjacent cells 910, 912 at the receiving end of the connection as seen using the clock of the receiving device.
- the cell / 910 arrives after the interval At, 930 according to the clock of the receiver. This means that the receiver thinks that the transmitter is transmitting at some cell rate that slightly differs from 50 cells/s. This is due to the different clock frequencies so the new, corrected clock frequency of the receiver should become
- the index / refers to the ⁇ h cell. If the effect of CDV is large, the clock of the receiver is adjusted according to the more or less random cell delay variation, not according to the source clock. However, it can be assumed that the cell delay variation At C ' DV is randomly distributed with a Gaussian distribution. Thus, an average ⁇ t, ⁇ ve over certain number N of samples should eliminate the effect of CDV. Then At, 930 can be replaced by ⁇ t, ⁇ ve , which yields a good estimation of the necessary correction to the frequency of the receiving clock, namely
- An implementation may therefore observe N cells before adjusting the clock of the receiving device.
- Fig. 10 illustrates a flow chart 1000 of the implementation wherein N cells are observed before adjusting the clock.
- the receiver starts a timer 1010 and stops it at time At, when the next cell arrives 1020.
- the difference At-At is calculated 1030 as being C- ⁇ t ( .
- C- ⁇ t is stored 1040 and the timer is started 1050.
- i is incremented and checked to determine whether i is equal to N 1060.
- This procedure is repeated N times 1070.
- the average over the measured values At is calculated 1080.
- the clock of the receiver is corrected using Eq. (5).
- the frequency f r of the receiver is corrected with a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) 1100 as illustrated in Fig. 11.
- the time difference calculator i.e., subtractor
- PD Phase Detector
- a positive pulse is generated by the integrator 1120.
- a negative pulse is generated by the integrator 1120.
- VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator
- synchronization techniques are available for synchronizing two end elements over ATM.
- the above mentioned techniques are based on timestamps, the investigation of the mean arrival rate of incoming ATM cells, the investigation of the level of the buffer for the incoming ATM cells.
- all of the above different kinds of adaptive methods are based on scanning the cell rate of traffic channels.
- the use of traffic channels presents a problem because the cell rate or bit rate of speech traffic channels is rather low and getting even lower.
- the traffic flow will be variable rather than constant. Therefore, deducing the clock from the low variable bit rate traffic channel is difficult and takes a long time. This is because the CDV (Cell Delay Variation) takes time. The duration of a single cell is usually not enough for this. The synchronization can even be impossible because of the variable bit rate connection.
- Fig. 12 illustrates the use of ATM multicasting 1200 to send cell streams from the TC or IWF to BTSs for deducing the clock frequency in BTSs in accordance with the present invention.
- a plurality of BTSs 1240 are coupled to the PCM 1230 via the TC 1210 and ATM 1220.
- High, constant bit rate virtual channels 1260-70 are setup to each of the BTSs 1240 for synchronization.
- the TC uses the broadcast synchronization virtual channels 1260-1270 to send cell streams to the BTSs 1240. Any of the above mentioned methods may be used in conjunction with present invention to deduce the clock frequency in the BTSs using the synchronization virtual channels 1260-1270.
- Synchronization Virtual Channels 1260-1270 could be set up during the night time, for example, when the traffic load is low.
- the cell rate for each of the synchronization virtual channels 1260- 1270 is selected to be sufficiently high. While high cell rates can be expensive if public operator are used, the synchronization procedure according to the present invention does not take long because of the high, constant bit rate. Furthermore, the synchronization needs to be performed only once a day, thereby minimizing expense.
- N lOOOOOcells , . , . . . ., , , . , . .
- R 50cellsls is too long compared to usual call duration of mobile phone.
- a high cell rate is used to solve this problem. If, for example, a 155 Mbit/s line is used, a cell rate of
- Constant Bit Rate (CBR) connection for the synchronization virtual channels 1260-1270 is used.
- software updates for example, can be contained by the synchronization cells.
- the present invention describes a method for using a Special Virtual Channel for Synchronization in ATM based BSS.
- Using a special virtual channel for synchronization alleviates the problem of tying-up traffic channels for adaptive synchronization. Accordingly, a dedicated, constant, high cell rate connection is used for synchronization.
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