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Chapter 7Performance optimisation for the support of TCIS pthe scheduling mechanism at the headend with one that supports at least two levels ofpiggyback or even reservation requests and also gives higher priority to VoIP traffic orTCIS applications in general.Although this prioritisation mechanism offers an improved performance for TCISapplications, a more efficient mechanism is examined in the following section.7.3.2 Reservation (Fixed-rate access) in QoSThe second approach for QoS with a guaranteed service, uses a fixed-rate accessconnection. In such connections data is sent in slots assigned at a fixed-rate basedaccess region in the upstream channel, as described in Section 3.5.4, Figure 3.6. Theseslots are uniquely assigned to a connection by the INA. The number of slots needed by aconnection and the periodic intervals are negotiated during the connection setup. Thecomplete set of procedures is illustrated in Figure 7.14.When an NIU requires a new fixed-rate connection or needs to change fixed-rateparameters, a Resource Request message is first sent to the INA by the NIU, includingthe new parameters. Example parameters are new cyclic assignment needed, requestedbandwidth, distance between slots and connection identifier (CID). The INA answerssuch requests by sending a Connect message to the NIU, indicating whether the newcyclic assignment is granted and if so, a new set of fixed-rate parameters are providedsuch as frame length, fixedrate start, fixedrate distance, fixedrate end and CID.Connection-SetupINA / HeadendResource RequestConnect MessageConnect ResponseNIU / EuroModemNew cyclic assignment needed(requested bandwidth, maximumdistance between slots and CID)Cyclic assignment granted(CID, frame length, fixedrate start,fixedrate distance and fixedrate end)CIDConnect ConfirmFigure 7.14 – Connection-setup for a Fixed-rate access connection.CID7-17

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