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Chapter 8Final conclusions pIn the multiple node scenario analysis, the DVB/DAVIC protocol proved again veryinefficient due to the excessive number of reservation requests, collisions,retransmissions and DVB MAC and PHY protocol overheads.Table 8.1 presents the maximum system performance and bandwidth characterisationsfor the six different packet sizes considered.In this scenario the maximum system throughput achieved was ≈ 34.5% of the cc whenpacket sizes of 64 bytes were considered. Increasing the packet size can significantlyimprove the performance with maximum system throughput up to ≈ 65% of the cc.Results for channel utilisation were higher than for throughput results with a deviationof 54% to 24% for minimum and maximum size Ethernet packets, respectively. Themajor source of performance inefficiency was the extensive protocol overhead involvedat the MAC (ATM encapsulation) and PHY (FEC) layers, which can be as high as 35%and 23% of the upstream channel capacity for 64-byte and 1518-byte packets,respectively. A second significant factor degrading system performance is thebandwidth consumed for the transmission of successful requests, which accounted for ≈12% when minimum size Ethernet packets are transmitted. Furthermore, collisions alsocontribute to system inefficiency with up to 8% of the cc.Chapter 6 introduced three novel contention slots allocators (Simple-CSA, Variable-CSA and Fixed-CSA). These techniques were studied because the DVB/DAVICprotocol specification did not define any mechanism for the allocation of contentionTable 8.1 – Summary of maximum system performance andbandwidth characterisation.BandwidthPacket Size (bytes)Characterisation (%) 64 128 256 512 1024 1518Maximum Throughput 34.5 51.3 56.2 62.9 63.4 64.6Maximum Utilisation 89.1 90.1 90.5 89.8 88.9 88.5Deviation 54.6 38.8 34.3 26.9 25.5 23.9Supported Streams 25.0 48.0 54.0 60.0 60.0 63.0Request Collided 8.3 4.1 1.3 0.4 0.1 0.1Request Successful 11.8 8.5 4.6 2.6 1.3 0.9MAC&PHY overhead 34.5 26.2 28.4 23.9 24.1 23.0Bandwidth unused 10.9 9.9 9.5 10.2 11.1 11.58-7

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