Adaptive slot allocation in DOCSIS-based CATV networks

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 479-488

  Liao, Wanjiun ^a   Ju, Huei Jiun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric network; DOCSIS; HFC; Slot allocation; TCP

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ASUMMETRIC NETWORK; DOCSIS; LONG PACKET DEFERMENT (LPD); SLOT ALLOCATION; TCP;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 2642586424     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2004.827498     Document Type: Article

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