A novel MAC protocol for supporting quality of services over IEEE 802.14 HFC network

Author

Chen, Char-Long ; Lee, Wei-Tsong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Feng Chia Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

18

Abstract

In order to support quality of service (QoS) for real-time data, such as video on demand (VoD), voice over IP (VoIP) and other multimedia services, HFC (hybrid fiber coax) networks must provide an effective priority scheme. We study the IEEE 802.14 specification and discover that preemptive is insufficient. Therefore, we propose a new scheme to support QoS in HFC networks. The proposed scheme has three priority queues for constant bit rate (CBR), variable bit rate (VBR) and available bit rate (ABR) traffic and different competitive ratios are assigned to priority queues, respectively. As a result, the high priority queue has higher probability to compete with the contention slot (CS). A novel ideal microslot is also proposed to support CBR traffic. According to the microslot, CBR traffic can continuously transmit data without requesting the upstream bandwidth again. Through the proposed scheme, we offer guaranteed QoS for high priority traffic in HFC networks

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; data communication; hybrid fibre coax networks; quality of service; queueing theory; telecommunication traffic; ABR; CBR; HFC network; IEEE 802.14; MAC protocol; QoS; VBR; VoD; VoIP; available bit rate; competitive ratios; constant bit rate; data transmission; hybrid fiber coax networks; microslot; multimedia services; priority queues; probability; quality of service; traffic; variable bit rate; video on demand; voice over IP; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Coaxial components; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Internet telephony; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Video on demand;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2001. Proceedings of IEEE Region 10 International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Technology

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7101-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2001.949543

Filename

949543