On IEEE 802.14 medium access control protocol
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
- Vol. 1 (1) , -02-02
- https://doi.org/10.1109/comst.1998.5340402
Abstract
In this article we present a comprehensive survey on the architecture, protocol issues, and standard of the hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) networks which are evolving from the existing residential CATV networks. We first describe the HFC architecture and discuss the problems in providing two-way communication. Then, we identify three important medium access control (MAC) issues in designing the IEEE 802.14 standard; namely, synchronization, upstream channel access modes, and collision resolution. Resolutions adopted by the IEEE 802.14 Committee are illustrated after giving a protocol overview. Key resolutions include compensating round trip correction (RTC), interleaving minislots of data and request concurrently, and resolving collisions by multiple collision resolution engines, using the n-ary tree plus p-persistence algorithm with a first transmission rule. A comparative summary of some draft proposals that lead to the standard is given. Finally, we pinpoint two headend algorithms, minislot allocation and request scheduling, which are left open in the standard. They do not affect interoperability but may have a critical impact on performance.Keywords
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