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Chapter 7Performance optimisation for the support of TCIS pSimilarly, the DOCSIS stepped curve is caused by the encapsulation of PDU messagesinto codewords (of ≈ 220 bytes), which are then transmitted as a continuous series ofminislots. Figure 7.20 shows the PDU structures for this protocol. For instance, for thesame user data of 1450 bytes, the DOCSIS protocol requests (1450-payload + 20-TCP +20-IP + 3-LLC + 18-MAC + 6-DOCSIS MAC) / 245 byte-codeword = 6 largecodewords + 1 short codeword ≈ 1590 bytes (or ≈100 minislots), for an upstreamefficiency of 91%. Here, every codeword includes 10 bytes of FEC information tocorrect up to 5 bytes over the MAC PDU. Without FEC the volumetric data at the PHYlayer becomes of 1520 bytes (≈95 minislots) for an increased efficiency up to 95%.MAC-Hdr.14-byte1493-byte IP PDUMAC-FCS4-byteMAC Frame (MAC-PDU)PreambleDOCSIS MAC6-bytes220-byte Packet DataFEC220-byte Packet Data1511-byte IMAC PDUFEC197-byte Packet DataFECDOCSIS MAC FrameGuradTimeCodewordsDOCSISMAC&PHY10-bytes 230-byte FEC Codeword (1)230-byte Codeword (2)207-byte FEC Codeword (7) 1-byteFigure 7.20 – DOCSIS upstream PDU structures.B) Maxim throughput achieved per cable modemIn order to obtain the maximum throughput per cable modem that each protocol canachieve, a single node (cable modem) network was considered with typical Ethernetpacket sizes ranging from 64 to 1518 bytes. A traffic generator within the node was setto produce the maximum number of packets that it could receive from the CPEinterface, (as introduced in Section 5.4.7.1), which was a 10 Mbps constant stream withvariable number of packet per second depending on the packet size.All references to packet size in this analysis (and also in the following analyses) willrefer to the size of the packet as it enters the system from the CPE interface. This wouldbe the packet size that the cable modem submits for delivery over the cable network,which does not include CATV MAC and PHY overheads. However, the CPE MAC andpossible layer 2 and layer 3 overheads are included.7-30

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