摘要 |
A METHOD (200) AND SYSTEM (100) FOR ENCAPSULATING MULTICAST PACKETS INTO UNICAST PACKETS, THE SYSTEM COMPRISES A TCP/TP COMMUNICATION STACK HAVING MEANS FOR RECEIVING A PLURALITY OF INCOMING MULTICAST PACKETS FROM AN INCOMING WIRELESS MODULE (102), A FIRST TRANSLATION MODULE (106) HAVING MEANS FOR TRANSLATING THE PLURALITY OF INCOMING MULTICAST PACKETS TO A RECOGNIZABLE FORMAT FOR MAPPING, AN INTELLIGENT HASHING TABLE (110) COMPRISES MEANS FOR STORING A EXTRACTED SUBSCRIBER IP ADDRESS, A SUBSCRIBER MAC ADDRESS AND A TTL PERIOD, A SECOND TRANSLATION MODULE (114) COMPRISES MEANS FOR TRANSLATING THE UNICAST PACKETS TO A FORMAT RECOGNIZABLE FOR TRANSMISSION, MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING THE UNICAST PACKETS INTO AN OUTGOING WIRELESS MODULE (116) AND MAPPING MODULES COMPRISES OF A FIRST MAPPING MODULE (108) AND A SECOND MAPPING MODULE (112). THE MAPPING MODULES (108, 112) COMPRISES THE METHOD OF EXTRACTING THE SUBSCRIBER IP ADDRESS, THE SUBSCRIBER MAC ADDRESS AND THE TTL PERIOD FROM A PLURALITY OF INCOMING MULTICAST PACKETS (302), STORING THE SUBSCRIBER IP ADDRESS, THE SUBSCRIBER MAC ADDRESS AND THE TTL PERIOD IN AN INTELLIGENT HASHING TABLE (304); ENCAPSULATING THE PLURALITY OF INCOMING MULTICAST PACKETS INTO A PLURALITY OF UNICAST PACKETS (306), FORWARDING THE UNICAST PACKETS FOR MAPPING (308) AND MULTIPLYING THE UNICAST PACKETS IN THE PRESENCE OF MULTIPLE SUBSCRIBERS (310). |