Ranging schemes for fast dynamic recovery of DOCSIS networks

Author

Sdralia, V. ; Holcombe, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Sheffield, UK

fYear

2001

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2001

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

159

Abstract

Power outages can seriously disrupt the digital services over community antenna television (CATV) networks. This paper proposes two novel schemes for the ranging process of the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) protocol, within the dynamic persistent ranging framework, which offer an absolute reduction of up to 34% in a cable network´s recovery time with an average of 28%. Based on the number of previously, active cable modems (CM) the CMTS allocates the best backoff start/end and updates them once (single backoff shift, SBS) or continuously (continuous backoff shift, CBS) as soon as a percentage of a non-ranged CMs is reached.

Keywords

cable television; data communication; digital television; modems; network interfaces; protocols; television networks; CATV networks; DOCSIS networks; DOCSIS protocol; Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification; backoff start/end; cable modems; cable network recovery time; community antenna television networks; continuous backoff shift; digital services; dynamic persistent ranging; dynamic recovery; power outages; single backoff shift; Bandwidth; Cable TV; Collision mitigation; Communication cables; Computer science; Digital video broadcasting; Helium; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Media Access Protocol; Modems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2001. Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1531-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1187-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2001.962333

Filename

962333