Ultra wideband ethernet bridging apparatus and method
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsJong Moo SOHN, Jae Doo Hun
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Abstract
Provided is an ultra wideband (UWB) Ethernet bridging apparatus and method. The UWB Ethernet bridging apparatus differentiates control frames and data frames from one another and transmits the differentiated frames to the different internal path. A processor processes the control frames, and the data frame is processed by using separate hardware so that the UWB Ethernet bridging apparatus can be miniaturized/simplified by using a small-sized embedded processor that is cheap and has low performance.
Claims16
An ultra wideband (UWB) Ethernet bridging apparatus, comprising:
- an UWB interface unit transmitting and receiving a UWB frame;
- an Ethernet interface unit transmitting and receiving an Ethernet frame;
- a frame conversion unit converting a format of the UWB frame into a format of the Ethernet frame;
- and
- a frame multiplexing/demultiplexing unit transmitting the UWB frame received by the UWB interface unit to the frame conversion unit if the UWB frame is a UWB data frame, or transmitting the UWB frame to a processor that exists on a separate path from an internal transmission path of the UWB data frame if the UWB frame is not the UWB data frame.
An ultra wideband (UWB) Ethernet bridging method, comprising:
- receiving a UWB frame;
- if the UWB frame is a UWB data frame, converting a format of the UWB frame into a format of an Ethernet frame;
- if the UWB frame is not a UWB data frame, transmitting the UWB frame to a processor that exists on a separate path from an internal transmission path of the UWB data frame;
- and
- forwarding the Ethernet frame to Ethernet.
An ultra wideband (UWB) Ethernet bridging method, comprising:
- receiving an Ethernet frame;
- converting a format of the Ethernet frame into a format of a UWB frame;
- and
- if a destination address of the UWB frame is a multicast or broadcast address or if the UWB frame is a frame associated with a device that is not registered in a UWB service, transmitting the UWB frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.