Time-efficient Event Processing Using Provisioning-to-Signaling Method in Data Transport Systems Requiring Multi- Processors.

In connection-oriented data transport services, data loss can occur when the service experiences a problem on its end-to-end path. To promptly resolve the problem, data transport systems providing the service should quickly modify their internal configurations, which are distributed at different places within each system. This is conducted through a series of problem (event) handling procedures carried out by multiple control processors in the system. This paper proposes a provisioning-to-signaling method for inter-control-processor messaging to improve the time efficiency of the event processing. This method simplifies the runtime event sharing and minimizes the time variability caused by the event data, resulting in a decrease in the latency time and an increase in the time determinacy in processing global events. The proposed method lessens the latency time of global event processing by about 50% compared with general methods for 4,000 internal path changes, and reduces the impact of event data on the event processing time to about 30%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]