Cross Layer Coordinated Channel Bonding

摘要

Different data communication architectures receive a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, for consumers. The architectures employ channel bonding to deliver more bandwidth than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, the communication architectures receive distributed video programming in the form of MPEG2 TS packets, flagged by marker packets. Channel bonding synchronization information may be present in packets defined above the data-link layer or received in fields within data-link layer frames.

主权项

1. A device comprising:
interfaces to communications channels; and channel bonding circuitry in communication with the interfaces, the channel bonding circuitry configured to:
receive data over the communication channels as a bonded channel group;extract channel bonding information for the bonded channel group from marker packets within the data, the marker packets distributed over the communication channels in a round-robin sequence; andreceive program data in communication units preceded by the marker packets, the communication units distributed over the communication channels in the same round-robin sequence.