System and method for configuring a switch matrix on-board a vehicle based on network information
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorJames Patrick Scott
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Abstract
A method includes receiving a request associated with a communications path from a first device to a second device. The method includes generating switching configuration data based on network topology data associated with the communications path. The switching configuration data indicates a configuration of a switch matrix of a satellite. The method further includes causing the switch matrix to initialize or modify the communications path based on the switching configuration data. A portion of the communications path includes components of a payload of the satellite. The components including the switch matrix.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving a request associated with communication between a first device and a second device;
- responsive to the request, generating switching configuration data based on mapping a label-switched network path between the first device and the second device to one or more communication frequency slices;
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- causing a switch matrix of a satellite to be configured based on the switching configuration data to enable the satellite to route a data packet with an encapsulated routing label between the first device and the second device without demodulating the data packet.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- processing, at a satellite, a request associated with a communications path between a first device and a second device, wherein a portion of the communications path includes components of a payload of the satellite, the components including a switch matrix;
- responsive to the request, generating, at the satellite, switching configuration data based on mapping a label-switched network path between the first device and the second device to one or more communication frequency slices;
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- configuring the switch matrix based on the switching configuration data to enable the satellite to route a data packet with an encapsulated routing label between the first device and the second device without demodulating the data packet.
A system comprising:
- a vehicle including:
- a switch matrix including a plurality of switches coupled between one or more receive antennas of the vehicle and one or more transmit antennas of the vehicle;
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- circuitry configured to initialize or modify a configuration of the switch matrix based on switching configuration data to enable routing of a data packet with an encapsulated routing label without demodulating the data packet;
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- a ground-based device of a communications network, the ground-based device configured to generate the switching configuration data based on mapping a label-switched network path between a first device and a second device to one or more communication frequency slices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.