TY - JOUR
T1 - Architecture for two-way data services over residential area CATV networks
AU - Wu, Chiung Shien
AU - Ma, Gin Kou
AU - Chen, Po-Ning
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - An architectural design for high speed residential data access using the traditional IEEE 802.3 medium access protocol over the existing CATV network is proposed. The described architecture is attractive in using the existing infrastructure combined with the existing access scheme in the residential area and thus it is cost effective and well suited for home internet access. However, the traditional CSMA/CD protocol is not suitable for the cable TV network due to its long propagation delay. Thus, we propose to combine the existing IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD MAC with the segmented cable subnetworks so that a home user can get access to the internet as if he is using the Ethernet at 10 M bps, or Fast-Ethernet at 100 M bps. Only three subcarriers in the passband cable is used and therefore it will not interfere with the traditional broadcasting channels and the future digital video channels. The segmented cable are interconnected by the defined Cable Bridge (CB) and a simple flow control mechanism is proposed among the CBs. Functional components and operations of each CB will also be described. For a fair performance among the subnetworks, a prioritized queueing scheme is also proposed on each CB.
AB - An architectural design for high speed residential data access using the traditional IEEE 802.3 medium access protocol over the existing CATV network is proposed. The described architecture is attractive in using the existing infrastructure combined with the existing access scheme in the residential area and thus it is cost effective and well suited for home internet access. However, the traditional CSMA/CD protocol is not suitable for the cable TV network due to its long propagation delay. Thus, we propose to combine the existing IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD MAC with the segmented cable subnetworks so that a home user can get access to the internet as if he is using the Ethernet at 10 M bps, or Fast-Ethernet at 100 M bps. Only three subcarriers in the passband cable is used and therefore it will not interfere with the traditional broadcasting channels and the future digital video channels. The segmented cable are interconnected by the defined Cable Bridge (CB) and a simple flow control mechanism is proposed among the CBs. Functional components and operations of each CB will also be described. For a fair performance among the subnetworks, a prioritized queueing scheme is also proposed on each CB.
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U2 - 10.1109/INFCOM.1997.631138
DO - 10.1109/INFCOM.1997.631138
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0031331652
SN - 0743-166X
VL - 3
SP - 1157
EP - 1164
JO - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
JF - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
M1 - 631138
T2 - Proceedings of the 1997 16th IEEE Annual Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM. Part 1 (of 3)
Y2 - 7 April 1997 through 12 April 1997
ER -