The Tenet real-time protocol suite: design, implementation, and experiences
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A protocol for efficient transfer of data over fiber/cable systems
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 2
Adaptive digital access protocol: a MAC protocol for multiservice broadband access networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
MLAP: a MAC level access protocol for the HFC 802.14 network
IEEE Communications Magazine
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Cable-modem (CM) technology is being developed to provide high-speed multimedia services to the subscribers' homes over the existing hybrid-fiber-coax (HFC) infrastructure of cable TV networks. The article proposes an efficient scheme for combining asynchronous and synchronous traffic on the upstream channel of a CM network when segmentation of the asynchronous packets is to be avoided, e.g. because of cost considerations. The new scheme guarantees the synchronous sources the same quality of service provided by the FDDI timed token protocol. That is, a guaranteed average delay between consecutive transmissions, a guaranteed maximum delay between consecutive transmissions, and a guaranteed bandwidth on the upstream channel.