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methods have distinct <strong>and</strong> complementary<br />
advantages The general recommendation<br />
is to use the<br />
plesiochronous method on international<br />
connections, master-slave in starshaped<br />
rural networks or temporarily in<br />
networks that are not yet fully built out,<br />
<strong>and</strong> mutual single-ended control in fully<br />
extended meshed networks.<br />
All three methods are provided in the<br />
AXE 10 telephone exchange system.<br />
They are realized in common hardware<br />
but differ as regards regulator algorithms,<br />
which are implemented in<br />
software.<br />
In AXE 10 the master-slave method is<br />
augmented with several facilities. For<br />
example, slave exchanges have programmable<br />
changeover to st<strong>and</strong>by links<br />
in the event of the failure of a master<br />
link. This method has been in operation<br />
in the Saudi-Arabian network since 1978<br />
<strong>and</strong> has since been introduced in many<br />
other networks.<br />
Mutual single-ended control is based on<br />
integrating regulators which require a<br />
minimum of elastic buffer storage. This<br />
method requires that one of the exchanges<br />
is left unregulated, a so-called<br />
sink. A sink gives many other advantages.<br />
For example, the network frequency<br />
becomes independent of delay<br />
variations. Computer simulations show<br />
that mutual single-ended control is well<br />
suited <strong>for</strong> large complex networks.<br />
References<br />
1. Recommendation G.822 <strong>and</strong> G.811. International<br />
Telegraph <strong>and</strong> Telephone<br />
Consultative Committee (CCITT) 1980.<br />
2. Br<strong>and</strong>t, H.: Proposed Extension to<br />
Recommendation G.822. CCITT Study<br />
Group XVIII-Contribution No. 54<br />
(Ericsson). May 1981.<br />
3. Ericson, B. <strong>and</strong> Roos, S.: Digital Group<br />
Selector in the AXE 10 <strong>System</strong>.<br />
Ericsson Rev. 55 (1978):4, pp. 140-<br />
149.<br />
4. Marlevi, A.: Direct digitally controlled<br />
network synchronization. IEEE Trans.<br />
Commun. COM-27, pp. 1561-1565<br />
(1979).<br />
5. Bohlin, T. <strong>and</strong> Marlevi, A.: Decentralized<br />
Control of the Oscillators in<br />
Large <strong>and</strong> Changing <strong>Communication</strong><br />
Networks. 19th Conference on decision<br />
<strong>and</strong> control, pp. 506-512, December<br />
1980. Also in IEEE Trans, on Automatic<br />
Control AC-27 (1982), pp. 49-59.<br />
6. Marlevi, A.: Choice of Regulator <strong>for</strong><br />
Mutual Network Synchronization. IEEE<br />
Trans. Commun. COM-28 (1980),<br />
pp.1989-1993.<br />
7. Br<strong>and</strong>t, H.: Network Synchronization<br />
Planning. Instruction. Internal Ericsson<br />
report XF/SD 82128, February<br />
1983.<br />
8. Marlevi, A.: Synchronization of digital<br />
telecommunication networks by offset-free<br />
single-ended control. Doctoral<br />
thesis. ISBN 91-85212-80-6.