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Resource Planning and Bandwidth Allocation in Hybrid Fiber-Coax Residential Networks
Overview The introduction of new high bandwidth services such as video-on-demand by cable operators will put a strain on existing resources. It is important for cable operators to know how many resources to commit to the network to satisfy customer demands. This paper develops models of voice and video traffic to determine the effect on demand growth on hybrid fiber-coax networks. The paper obtains a set of guidelines that network operators can use to build out their networks in response to increased demand. The paper begins with one type of traffic and generalize to an arbitrary number of high-bandwidth CBR-like services to obtain service blocking probabilities. These computations help to determine how cable networks would function under various conditions (i.e., low, medium, and heavy loads).
| Publisher | National Institute of Standards and Technology | File Format | |
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| Date Published | March 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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