Design and implementation of E1 stream analyzer for CCSS7 protocol

Author

Malik, A.Y.K. ; Ahmed, M.M. ; Azhar, A. ; Khan, O.A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electron. Engincering, GIK Inst. of Eng. Sci. & Technol., Topi

fYear

2003

fDate

9-9 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

77

Abstract

The E1 (PCM-30) stream is a European telecommunication standard for communication of data/voice channels in a digital network. This paper deals with the design and implementation of a transparent stream analyzer, capable of handling (up to 2 Mbps) E1 stream and analyzing 30 voice/data channels using an out-of-band common channel signaling system number 7 (CCSS7) protocol. The analyzer is capable of generating an E1 stream and thus can be used for generation, monitoring and blocking of channels. The analyzer can perform analysis and maintenance of E1 (2.048 Mbps) lines. As our analyzer performs the analysis functions in software it is very flexible and can perform many additional features such as algorithms and protocol testing and analysis. The workable synchronous finite state machine (FSM) design of the analyzer is implemented in Verilog and verified on Altera´s FLEX10K70 FPGA along with its subsequent interfacing with a PC through an enhanced parallel port

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; finite state machines; network analysers; protocols; pulse code modulation; telecommunication signalling; telecommunication standards; 2 Mbit/s; 2.048 Mbit/s; E1 stream analyzer; FPGA implementation; FSM; PCM-30 stream; Verilog; channel blocking; channel monitoring; common channel signaling system number 7 protocol; digital network data/voice channels; out-of-band CCSS7 protocol; parallel port interface; protocol analysis; protocol testing; pulse code modulation; stream generation; synchronous finite state machine; telecommunication standard; transparent stream analyzer; Algorithm design and analysis; Communication system signaling; Monitoring; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Signal analysis; Signal design; Speech analysis; Telecommunication standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multi Topic Conference, 2003. INMIC 2003. 7th International

Conference_Location

Islamabad

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8183-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INMIC.2003.1416618

Filename

1416618