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A Priority Scheme for the IEEE 802.14 MAC Protocol for Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks

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A Priority Scheme for the IEEE 802.14 MAC Protocol for Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks
In order to support quality-of-service (QoS) for real-time data communications such as voice, video and interactive services, multiaccess networks must provide an effective priority mechanism. The context of this work is the IEEE 802.14 standard for hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) networks which has a shared upstream channel for transmissions from stations to the headend. This work presents a multilevel priority collision resolution scheme, which separates and resolves collisions between stations in a priority order, thereby, achieving the capability for preemptive priorities. We present a set of simulation scenarios which show the robustness and efficiency of the scheme, such as its ability to isolate higher priority traffic from lower priorities and to provide quick access to high-priority requests. In March 1998, a framework for handling priorities in the collision resolution process, which adopts a semantics similar to the semantics of our scheme, was included in the 802.14 standard.
Mark D. Corner, Nada Golmie, Jörg Liebeherr,
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Type Conference
Year 1998
Where INFOCOM
Authors Mark D. Corner, Nada Golmie, Jörg Liebeherr, David H. Su
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