Patent ID: 6697364
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: H04J,H04W

Abstract:
A method for carrying out statistical multiplexing in a telecommunications network which comprises a transmitting unit for transferring channels containing information from at least two traffic sources, a receiving unit and a transmission link between the at least two traffic sources, the information to be transmitted in the telecommunication system being transferred over the transmission link in transmission frames,the method comprising: assembling a variable-length transmission frame which comprises an allocation field and an information field, identifying an active channel of channels from a plurality of traffic sources, allocating an information field transmission block from the variable-length transmission frame to the information of the active channel to be transferred, inserting the information of the active channel to be transferred into the allocated transmission block, adding channel allocation information into an allocation field of the variable-length transmission frame in which the information of the active channel is for a first time continuous transfer, maintaining the channel allocation for as long as a channel in question is continuously active, and transmitting said variable-length transmission frame from the transmitting unit to the receiving unit over the transmission link.