Method for broadcast gateway signaling using cloud network and apparatus for the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11343786-B2
Application number	US-202117182955-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2021
Priority date	Oct 27, 2020
Publication date	May 24, 2022
Grant date	May 24, 2022

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a method for broadcast gateway signaling using a cloud network and an apparatus for the same. The method includes generating an outer packet corresponding to the outer layer of a tunneling system using an inner packet corresponding to the inner layer of the tunneling system, generating a header of the outer packet, and transmitting the outer packet to a transmitter through a Studio-to-Transmitter Link (STL). The header includes an STL propagation delay time field indicating a reception wait time for an STL stream corresponding to the outer packet.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for broadcast gateway signaling, comprising:
generating an outer packet corresponding to an outer layer of a tunneling system using an inner packet corresponding to an inner layer of the tunneling system; and
generating a header of the outer packet and transmitting the outer packet to a transmitter through a Studio-to-Transmitter Link (STL),
wherein the header includes an Slit propagation delay time field representing a reception wait time for an STL stream corresponding to the outer packet, and
wherein the STL propagation delay time field is a 6-bit field, and is set to an integer ranges from ‘0’ to ‘63’, indicating time in units of milliseconds.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reception wait time is a time during which the transmitter forms a broadcast transmission signal to transmit to an RF channel using the outer packet.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein, when loss occurs in the outer packet transmitted to the transmitter, a lost packet recovery process is repeatedly performed during the reception wait time.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the lost packet recovery process is performed through a Studio-to-Transmitter Link (STL) stream cache server that operates as an edge cloud node in a cloud infrastructure environment.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the outer packet is transmitted to the STL stream cache server in a form of a multicast packet through an RTP/UDP/IP multicast protocol stack and is transmitted to the transmitter in a form of a unicast packet through an RTP/UDP/IP unicast protocol stack.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein a cache pool for a packet, a reception wait time of which has not expired, among outer packets transmitted to the STL stream cache server, is formed.

7. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
sharing a public key with the transmitter based on a key delivery process;
performing authentication of a reception registration request message received from the transmitter using a public key of the transmitter; and
providing information about an address of the STL stream cache server to the transmitter when the authentication succeeds.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein:
the reception registration request message includes a message sequence number, an identifier of the public key of the transmitter, a UDP port number, and a private key signature of the transmitter, and
the authentication is performed in such a way that a message authentication code based on the private key signature of the transmitter is checked using the public key of the transmitter.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
sharing the public key of the transmitter with the STL stream cache server,
wherein the lost packet recovery process is performed when authentication of a recovery packet request message, transmitted by the transmitter to the STL stream cache server, succeeds, the authentication being performed based on the public key of the transmitter.

10. The method of claim 3 , wherein, when a lost packet is not recovered during the reception wait time, the lost packet is processed by at least one of inputting a null packet and discarding the lost packet.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the inner packet is encapsulated through the outer packet.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the tunneling system is configured such that a group of parallel and independent packet streams, corresponding to the inner packet, is carried within a single packet stream corresponding to the outer packet.

13. A broadcast gateway apparatus, comprising:
a processor for generating an outer packet corresponding to an outer layer of a tunneling system using an inner packet corresponding to an inner layer of the tunneling system, generating a header of the outer packet, and transmitting the outer packet to a transmitter through a Studio-to-Transmitter Link (STL); and
memory for storing the outer packet,
wherein the header includes an STL propagation delay time field representing a reception wait time for an STL stream corresponding to the outer packet, and
wherein the SU, propagation delay time field is a 6-bit field, and is set to an integer ranges from ‘0’ to ‘63’, indicating time in units of milliseconds.

14. The broadcast gateway apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the reception wait time is a time during which the transmitter forms a broadcast transmission signal to transmit to an RF channel using the outer packet.

15. The broadcast gateway apparatus of claim 13 , wherein, when loss occurs in the outer packet transmitted to the transmitter, a lost packet recovery process is repeatedly performed during the reception wait time.

16. The broadcast gateway apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the lost packet recovery process is performed through a Studio-to-Transmitter Link (STL) stream cache server that operates as an edge cloud node in a cloud infrastructure environment.

17. The broadcast gateway apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the outer packet is transmitted to the STL stream cache server in a form of a multicast packet through an RTP/UDP/IP multicast protocol stack and is transmitted to the transmitter in a form of a unicast packet through an RTP/UDP/IP unicast protocol stack.

18. The broadcast gateway apparatus of claim 16 , wherein a cache pool for a packet, a reception wait time of which has not expired, among outer packets transmitted to the STL stream cache server, is formed.

Assignees

• Electronics & Telecommunications Res Inst

Inventors

• Kim Soon-Choul
• Lee Jae-Young
• Oh Hye-Ju
• Yim Hyun-Jeong
• Choi Dong-Joon

Classifications

• H04N21/64322

  IP · CPC title

• H04N21/238

  Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network, e.g. adapting the transmission rate of a video stream to network bandwidth; Processing of multiplex streams {(hybrid fiber coaxial [HFC] networks for downstream channel allocation for video distribution H04L12/2801; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10; real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00; scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60)} · CPC title

• H04L69/22

  Parsing or analysis of headers · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L12/4633

  Interconnection of networks using encapsulation techniques, e.g. tunneling · CPC title