Methods and devices for transmitting a continuous bit stream in a digital network non-synchronous with the bit stream

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10855438-B2
Application number	US-201816005538-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 11, 2018
Priority date	Dec 11, 2015
Publication date	Dec 1, 2020
Grant date	Dec 1, 2020

Abstract

Methods and devices for transmitting a continuous bit stream in a digital network non-synchronous with the bit stream are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes digitizing a continuous bit stream implemented by a transmitting apparatus and restoring the continuous bit stream implemented by a receiving apparatus. A processor of the transmitting apparatus digitizes the initial continuous bit stream into a binary data sequence to be transmitted at a nominal frequency corresponding to a set clock period, the binary data to be transmitted being encapsulated in at least one transport frame sent to the receiving apparatus. The digitization includes estimating a mean emission clock period value of the data sequence, and inserting, in a predetermined field of the transport frame, information making it possible to restore, in the receiving apparatus, the mean emission clock period value of the data sequence.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for digitizing a continuous bit stream, with no associated clock signal, in communication system that is nonsynchronous with the bit stream, for a transmission between a first transmitting apparatus and a second receiving apparatus, the initial continuous bit stream being digitized by the first transmitting apparatus by using an emission clock signal into a binary data sequence to be transmitted at a nominal frequency corresponding to a set clock period, the binary data to be transmitted being encapsulated in at least one transport frame, the frame being sent to the second receiving apparatus, the method, implemented by a processor of the first transmitting apparatus, comprising:
estimating a mean emission clock period value of the data sequence; and
inserting, in a predetermined field of the transport frame, information making it possible to restore, in the second receiving apparatus, the mean emission clock period value of the data sequence.

2. The digitization method according to claim 1 , wherein the emission clock signal is defined by emission clock cycles, wherein the estimating comprises estimating the duration of each emission clock cycle of the binary data sequence to be transmitted and calculating a deviation between the set clock period and the duration estimated for each emission clock cycle.

3. The digitization method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
calculating a mean value of the deviations; and
estimating the mean emission clock period value based on the set clock period and the mean value of the deviations.

4. The digitization method according to claim 3 , wherein the calculation of the mean value of the deviations is carried out by a Euclidian division of the sum of the deviations by the number of binary data of the binary data sequence to be transmitted, providing a remainder value of the division and a sign of the remainder.

5. The digitization method according to claim 4 , wherein additional information including the remainder value of the division and the sign of the remainder is inserted into the transport frame.

6. A transmitting apparatus of a communication system, adapted to carry out a continuous bit stream digitization method according to claim 1 .

7. A method for restoring a continuous bit stream, transmitted with no associated clock signal, in a communication system that is nonsynchronous with the bit stream, between a first transmitting apparatus and a second receiving apparatus, the initial continuous bit stream being digitized by a digitization method according to claim 1 implemented in the first transmitting apparatus, the restoring method, implemented by a processor of the second receiving apparatus, comprising:
extracting, from a predetermined field of the transport frame, information making it possible to restore the mean emission clock period value of the data sequence;
generating a restore clock signal, each cycle of which has a duration equal to the mean emission clock period value; and
restoring a bit stream with a pace given by the restore clock signal.

8. The restoring method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
extracting, from the transport frame, additional information making it possible to obtain a restored bit stream with the same total duration as the bit stream transmitted by the first transmitting apparatus.

9. The restoring method according to claim 8 , wherein the additional information includes a Euclidian division remainder value of a sum of the deviations between the set clock period and a duration calculated for each emission clock cycle by the number of binary data of the binary data sequence to be transmitted, and a sign of the remainder.

10. The restoring method according to claim 9 , further comprising an adjustment of at least one restore clock cycle duration of the second receiving apparatus based on the value of the remainder and the sign of the remainder.

11. A receiving apparatus of a communication system, adapted to carry out a continuous bit stream restoring method according to claim 7 .

Assignees

• Thales Sa

Inventors

• Grimonprez Benjamin
• Renaux Michel

Classifications

• H04J3/0602 Primary

  Systems characterised by the synchronising information used · CPC title

• H04L65/61

  for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio · CPC title

• H04J3/1623

  Plesiochronous digital hierarchy [PDH] · CPC title

• H04J3/07

  using pulse stuffing for systems with different or fluctuating information rates {or bit rates} · CPC title

• H04L7/04 Primary

  Speed or phase control by synchronisation signals {(H04L7/0075 takes precedence)} · CPC title