Performance characterisation of the mcns docsis 1.0 catv protocol with prioritised first come first served scheduling

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 196-205

  Sdralia, V ^a   Smythe, C ^b   Tzerefos, P ^c   Cvetkovic, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b CATV Networks   (United Kingdom)

^c Logica United Kingdom   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CATV networks; DOCSIS; FCFS scheduling algorithm; HPC; MNCS; Performance characterisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMMON SIMULATION FRAMEWORK (CSF); MULTIMEDIA CABLE NETWORK SYSTEMS (MCNS);

CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032597814     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/11.796261     Document Type: Article

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