A protocol for efficient transfer of data over hybrid fiber/coax systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
The n-ary stack algorithm for the wireless random access channel
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on channel access in wireless networks
A priority scheme for the IEEE 802.14 MAC protocol for hybrid fiber-coax networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
LMDS/LMCS hub interconnection alternatives and multiple access issues
Wireless Networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
PCUP: Pipelined Cyclic Upstream Protocol over Hybrid Fiber Coax
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
Architecture for Two-way Data Services Over Residential Area CATV Networks
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
Analysis of packet networks having contention-based reservation with application to GPRS
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
ms START: A random access algorithm for the IEEE 802.14 HFC network
Computer Communications
Research: An ATM-friendly MAC for traffic concentration in HFC systems
Computer Communications
Research: A community VOD system based on a dual bus architecture
Computer Communications
Virtual time scheduling in HFC networks with support for priority implementation
Computer Communications
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Interactive residential broadband/multimedia services are expected to be the next main event in the cyberspace experience. The large excess bandwidth (well over 300 MHz) available in today's cable TV (CATV) hybrid fiber/coaxial (HFC) plants is an ideal candidate to provide the underlying communications infrastructure for interactive digital services to the home; cable operators that have not yet upgraded their all-coaxial plants to HFC are quickly moving in this direction. MLAP is a flexible ATM-friendly MAC protocol that is capable of supporting various types of traffic with diverse quality-of-service requirements. We introduce a very versatile MAC protocol for the HFC 802.14 network. MLAP can provide integrated broadband services to the home, internetwork easily with ATM wide area networks, support QoS constraints for various types of traffic, and operate over a variety of physical layer protocols. Our presentation is only an extended summary of our medium-sharing protocol proposal to the IEEE 802.14 WG. We consider only error-free system operation. MLAP provides for the use of timers for the recovery of error situations in the network. MLAP is also supported by a management suite of protocols for management of the overall system