H - Electricity – 04 – Q
Patent
H - Electricity
04
Q
344/28
H04Q 3/42 (2006.01) H04L 12/26 (2006.01) H04L 12/28 (2006.01) H04L 12/56 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2003219
A method of transmitting data packets in time slots on a communication network having first and second unidirectional buses which are oppositely directed and a number of access units coupled between the buses is described. The method including the steps of forming a distributed queue of data packets by queueing in each access unit the therein received data packets to be transmitted on the first unidirectional bus, transmitting a request flag on the second unidirectional bus by each access unit for each data packet in the queue in the respective access unit, keeping track in each access unit of all request flags passing said access unit on the second unidirectional bus and transmitting a data packet from the queue in access unit if a predetermined number of empty time slots has passed said access unit on the first bus. At the time a further data packet arrives in an access unit and is added to the queue therein a request flag is transmitted on the second bus by the access unit. The further data packet is transmitted by the access unit in the first empty time slot on the first bus after a number of free slots on the first bus have passed the access unit. The number of free slots is equal to the total number of data packets in the distributed queue at the time of arrival of the further data packet in the access unit, such that only those data packets are transmitted before the further data packet (first-in/first-out principle).
Fetherstonhaugh & Co.
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.
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