Method and device for allocating transmission resources

A method and a device are provided for allocating, in cycles, resources of a transmission medium to data streams for multiplexed transmission of said data streams via said transmission medium. According to the invention, for each cycle, a share of the resources to each of the data streams is allocated and for each cycle the allocation is assessed depending on the allocation of a previous cycle. Furthermore, for each cycle, a size of each share depending on a traffic demand of at least one of the data streams may be determined and the allocation may be performed such that for each cycle the sequence of the data streams in the allocation is altered

Providing Multi-Homing Support in IP Access Networks

Amongst the activities of the European Commission IST research project MIND [1] is extensive consideration of the multi-homing issues in IP access networks. Analysis of the various multi-homing scenarios reveals diverse aspects of multi-homing relevant to both the operations of the access network as well as the hosts connected to it. The originality of the work presented in this paper is arising from the uniqueness of the multi-homing setup in IP access networks that support terminal mobility such as the one developed in BRAIN [2] project and the adhoc and self-organising network extensions developed in MIND. This paper presents a part of our work on multihoming by showing the required architectural support from the involved network elements and utilisation of the existing general mechanisms for the support of IP connectivity