Patent ID: 11962515
Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. The specialized node of claim 14, wherein:
the ingress node is configured to support a plurality of different scheduling algorithms, each scheduling algorithm corresponding to an order of individually servicing one or more incoming flows;
for each serviced incoming flow in a selected scheduling algorithm, the ingress node generates a TDM packet from the serviced incoming flow for a corresponding TDM time slot in the TDM flow;
each TDM packet corresponding to a serviced incoming flow comprises:
a switch-fabric header corresponding to the switch fabric protocol;
a node header comprising a timestamp corresponding to a time that the TDM packet is generated and slot information identifying the serviced incoming flow; and
one or more client packets corresponding to the serviced incoming flow; and

each client packet is pre-pended by:
a packet-length field indicate length of the client packet; and
a timestamp corresponding to a time that the client packet was received at its ingress node.