The Theory And Implementation Of MAC Layer Protocol On Bi-directional HFC Network
Wen Chen · 2000
This paper presents the theory and implementation of MAC layer protocol of bi-directional hybrid fiber/coaxial(HFC)network.It emphasizes several important aspects such as multiple access,scheduling,slot alignment and contention resolution.We implemented a MAC layer protocol,which is aimed to VOD service.Both the reservation and competition scheme were employed to realize the ranging process and upstream packet transmission.Performance analysis and simulation results are given in detail.