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Chapter 5Upstream channel capacity and characterisation p5.4.6 Effects of increasing the number of signalling framesAs introduced in Section 3.4, the description of upstream slots is contained in thesignalling (or MCI) field of the MPEG2 TS frame. According to the DVB/DAVICprotocol specification, these frames with signalling information should be transmitted atleast every 3 ms, when the upstream data rate is 6.176, 3.088 or 1.544 Mbps. Thefunction of these signalling frames is to co-ordinate the usage of the upstream slots,assign access modes, and indicate whether the reception of contention-based slots wassuccessful.In this section we discuss the maximum gain in system performance that can beobtained by increasing the number of MPEG2 frames with signalling information thatcan be transmitted within the 3 ms period.In a 3.088 Mbps upstream channel, the maximum number of MPEG2 frames (withsignalling information) that can be transmitted within the 3 ms period is either 1 or 2. Ina 6.176 Mbps upstream channel, this number is 1, 2 or 4. For this analysis, an Internettraffic configuration will be considered. The mean data rate per active station was set to32 kbps (as defined in Section 5.3.1). The simulations were performed using bothCRAs.5-27

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