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CN-122001473-A - Optical network communication method and communication device

CN122001473ACN 122001473 ACN122001473 ACN 122001473ACN-122001473-A

Abstract

The application provides an optical network communication method and a communication device, wherein the method is applied to an optical fiber network, the optical fiber network comprises a master device and at least one slave device, and the at least one slave device comprises a first slave device. In the method, the master device sends a third message to the first slave device, where the third message is a WLAN management control interface WMCI message, the third message is used to manage or control a WLAN function of the first slave device, the third message includes fourth indication information and fifth indication information, the fourth indication information is used to indicate the first characteristic, and the fifth indication information is used to indicate whether to enable the first characteristic of the first slave device. The first characteristic of the first slave device is flexibly configured by the master device, so that the efficiency of managing and controlling the first slave device by the master device is improved.

Inventors

  • WU XUMING
  • CHEN HAICHENG
  • XU RONGHUA

Assignees

  • 华为技术有限公司

Dates

Publication Date
20260508
Application Date
20250218
Priority Date
20241104

Claims (20)

  1. 1. An optical network communication method applied to an optical fiber network, wherein the optical fiber network comprises a master device and at least one slave device, and the at least one slave device comprises a first slave device, and the method is characterized by comprising the following steps: the master device sends a third message to the first slave device, where the third message is a WLAN management control interface WMCI message, where the third message is used to manage or control a WLAN function of the first slave device, and the third message includes fourth indication information and fifth indication information, where the fourth indication information is used to indicate a first characteristic, and the fifth indication information is used to indicate whether to enable the first characteristic of the first slave device.
  2. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the third message includes a message content field, wherein the fourth indication information is located in the first two bytes of the message content field, and wherein the fifth indication information is located in the remaining bytes of the message content field.
  3. 3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first two bytes of the message content field are parameter mask fields and the fourth indication information is one bit of the parameter mask fields.
  4. 4. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the fifth indication information comprises a first value indicating that the first feature is enabled and a second value indicating that the first feature is not enabled.
  5. 5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the third message further comprises second indication information, the second indication information being used to indicate a parameter set of the third message, the first characteristic being a characteristic indicated by one of the parameter sets.
  6. 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the set of parameters comprises a WMCI set of characteristic parameters, the first characteristic being a characteristic related to WMCI.
  7. 7. The method according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the second indication information is located in a message type identification field of the third message.
  8. 8. The method of claim 6, wherein the WMCI-related characteristics include at least one of: Time domain scheduling feature, or Energy-saving property or Collaborative enhanced distributed channel access EDCA feature, or Roaming characteristics or Space division multiplexing characteristics or Frequency domain scheduling characteristics or Wi-Fi time synchronization feature.
  9. 9. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, further comprising: The master device receives a fourth message from the first slave device, where the fourth message is a WLAN management control interface WMCI message, the fourth message is used to manage or control a WLAN function of the first slave device, the fourth message includes fourth indication information and sixth indication information, the fourth indication information is used to indicate a first characteristic, and the sixth indication information is used to indicate whether to enable the first characteristic of the first slave device.
  10. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the fourth message includes a message content field, wherein the fourth indication information is located in the first two bytes of the message content field, and wherein the sixth indication information is located in the remaining bytes of the message content field.
  11. 11. The method of claim 9 or 10, wherein the sixth indication information comprises a first value indicating that the first feature is enabled and a second value indicating that the first feature is not enabled.
  12. 12. The method according to claims 9 to 11, wherein the fourth message further comprises the second indication information, the second indication information being located in a message type identification field of the fourth message.
  13. 13. The method of any of claims 1 to 12, wherein the third message is encapsulated in a payload field of a fibre-to-room encapsulation mode FEM frame, a FEM port identification in a frame header of the FEM frame being used to indicate that the third message corresponds to the first slave device.
  14. 14. The method of claim 13, wherein the FEM frame is encapsulated in a payload field of a data link layer DLL frame.
  15. 15. The method of any one of claims 1 to 14, wherein the master device is a master fiber to room FTTR unit MFU and the slave device is a slave FTTR unit SFU.
  16. 16. An optical network communication method applied to an optical fiber network, wherein the optical fiber network comprises a master device and at least one slave device, and the at least one slave device comprises a first slave device, and the method is characterized by comprising the following steps: The first slave device receives a third message from the master device, where the third message is a WLAN management control interface WMCI message, the third message is used to manage or control a WLAN function of the first slave device, the third message includes fourth indication information and fifth indication information, the fourth indication information is used to indicate a first characteristic, and the fifth indication information is used to indicate whether to enable the first characteristic of the first slave device; the first slave device configures the first characteristic based on the third message.
  17. 17. The method of claim 16, wherein the third message includes a message content field, wherein the fourth indication information is located in the first two bytes of the message content field, and wherein the fifth indication information is located in the remaining bytes of the message content field.
  18. 18. The method according to claim 16 or 17, wherein the first two bytes of the message content field are parameter mask fields and the fourth indication information is one bit of the parameter mask fields.
  19. 19. The method of any of claims 16 to 18, wherein the fifth indication information comprises a first value indicating that the first feature is enabled and a second value indicating that the first feature is not enabled.
  20. 20. The method according to any of claims 16 to 19, wherein the third message further comprises second indication information indicating a parameter set of the third message, the first characteristic being a characteristic indicated by one of the parameter sets.

Description

Optical network communication method and communication device The present application claims priority from the chinese patent application filed 11.04.2024 to the chinese intellectual property office under application No. 20241954842. X, entitled "an optical network communication method and communication device", the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. Technical Field The embodiment of the application relates to the field of optical communication, in particular to an optical network communication method and a communication device. Background Fiber-to-room (fiber to the room, FTTR) refers to a technique of providing fiber medium access to a room downstream of an optical network device (e.g., an optical network terminal (optical network terminal, ONT)) with fiber instead of a network cable. The fiber optic network in this FTTR scenario includes a master device and one or more slave devices (also referred to as sub-devices). The master device and the slave device can establish a management channel, so that the master device can send a message related to management or control to the slave device through the management channel, and the management or control of partial functions of the slave device by the master device is realized. For example, a management channel can be established WMCI between the master device and the slave device based on a wireless local area network management and control interface (WLAN MANAGEMENT control interface, WMCI) protocol, so that messages can be interacted WMCI between the master device and the slave device through the WMCI management channel, thereby realizing management or control of wireless local area network (wireless local area network, WLAN) functions. In the current standard, the format of WMCI messages is not well defined, which is detrimental to the efficient management of slave devices by the master device. Disclosure of Invention The application provides an optical network communication method and a communication device, which are beneficial to improving the management and control efficiency of a master device and a slave device by defining indication information to indicate WMCI the operation type of a message. In a first aspect, the present application provides an optical network communication method applied to an optical fiber network, where the optical fiber network includes a master device and at least one slave device, and the at least one slave device includes a first slave device. The optical network communication method provided in the present aspect may be executed by a host device in the optical fiber network, or may be executed by a part of functional modules or chips in the host device. Taking the master device execution as an example, the master device sends a third message to the first slave device, where the third message is a WLAN management control interface WMCI message, the third message is used to manage or control the WLAN function of the first slave device, the third message includes fourth indication information and fifth indication information, the fourth indication information is used to indicate the first characteristic, and the fifth indication information is used to indicate whether to enable the first characteristic of the first slave device. In this aspect, the third message sent by the master device to the first slave device includes fourth indication information and fifth indication information, and the first slave device is instructed to enable or disable the first characteristic of the first slave device by the fourth indication information and the fifth indication information, so that the master device is facilitated to flexibly configure the first characteristic of the first slave device, and efficiency of the master device controlling the first slave device is improved. In one possible embodiment, the third message includes a message content field, the fourth indication information is located in the first two bytes of the message content field, and the fifth indication information is located in the remaining bytes of the message content field. In one possible implementation, the first two bytes of the message content field are the parameter mask field and the fourth indication information is one bit of the parameter mask field. In one possible embodiment, the fifth indication information includes a first value indicating that the first feature is enabled and a second value indicating that the first feature is not enabled. In a possible embodiment, the third message further comprises second indication information for indicating a parameter set of the third message, and the first characteristic is a characteristic indicated by one of the parameter sets. In one possible implementation, the parameter set includes WMCI characteristic parameter sets, the first characteristic being one characteristic associated with WMCI. In one possible implementation, the second indication information is located in a message