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50<br />

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.

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