The contention behavior of DOCSIS in CATV networks

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 660-669

  Chang, Kai Chien ^a   Liao, Wanjiun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CATV; Contention access; DOCSIS; TCP

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

CABLE MODEM (CM); CONTENTION ACCESS;

CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548076546     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2006.887169     Document Type: Article

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