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RE: structure agnostic transport and a start of a frame



Hi,

 

How would an “end marker” help here in that case? Or are you suggesting that we should be able to figure out “first fragment”, “normal fragment” and the “last fragment” of the structure agnostic payload?  Because that is what you essentially get with separate start & end flags..

 

- jouni

 

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答复: structure agnostic transport and a start of a frame

 

Jouni,
There may be some varied types of upper layer data carried over RoE frame, so the size is also varied, which RoE frame is the first part of upper layer data package and which RoE frame is the end of upper layer data package should be indicated, then 1 more bit may be needed.

BR.

Liquan
ZTE CORP.



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Folks,

Kevin brought up an interesting point a while back. If we want a truly structure agnostic transport mode be supported that would imply just a stream of bits. For example, in a case of CPRI we would not even touch 8B/10B or 64B/66B coding to preserve e.g. K-characters etc. I am fine with this (with some pain). However, it could be beneficial to indicate the start of a frame in the RoE header (1 bit flag). The assumption I have is that all data streams to be carried over RoE in structure agnostic mode still have some kind of framing. As an example we could indicate the start of each hyper frame in a case of CPRI.

The same flag would also serve structure aware modes & native RoE flows. Just to indicate when some packet is a start of a radio frame or other framing..

This is a small optimization that may or may not be worth it.. Comments/thoughts?

- Jouni

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