Upstream bandwidth allocation method, apparatus, and system

An upstream bandwidth allocation apparatus, comprising:

• a transmitter;
• a receiver, configured to obtain a service flow attribute of each online cable modem (CM) of one or more online CMs, wherein the service flow attribute comprises a delay-sensitive service and a delay-insensitive service;
• a processor,
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions to:
• allocate an upstream bandwidth to each online CM of the one or more online CMs according to a received service request;
• obtain a remaining bandwidth, wherein the remaining bandwidth is a remaining part in a preset total bandwidth other than the upstream bandwidth that is allocated to each online CM according to the service request;
• allocate a first bandwidth portion of the remaining bandwidth to one or more CMs of the one or more online CMs for enhanced best effort (BE) flow of a delay-sensitive service of the one or more CMs, wherein the first bandwidth portion accounts for 30% to 50% of the remaining bandwidth;
• and
• configure, as a contention-based bandwidth shared by a delay-sensitive service and a delay-insensitive service, a second bandwidth portion of the remaining bandwidth other than the first bandwidth portion;
• and
• allocate a first part of the second bandwidth portion for one or more contention request CMs of the one or more online CMs in response to the each respective contention request CM of the one or more contention request CMs sending a respective contention request to handle burst traffic of a flow in an upstream data transmission of the respective contention request CM, wherein the first part of the second bandwidth portion is allocated for the one or more contention request CMs according to a priority of the upstream data transmission for which the respective contention request CM sends the respective connection request;
• and
• cause the transmitter to inform each online CM of an upstream bandwidth allocation result, so that each online CM performs upstream data transmission according to the allocated bandwidth.

An upstream bandwidth allocation method, comprising:

• obtaining, by a cable modem termination system (CMTS), service flow attributes of online cable modems (CMs), wherein the service flow attributes comprise at least one delay-sensitive service and a delay-insensitive service;
• allocating, by the CMTS, upstream bandwidth to one or more first CMs of the online CMs according to a service request received from the respective one or more first CMs, wherein a remaining bandwidth is a remaining part in a preset total bandwidth other than the upstream bandwidth that is allocated to the one or more first CMs;
• allocating, by the CMTS, a first bandwidth portion of the remaining bandwidth to one or more second CMs of the online CMs for enhanced best effort (BE) flow of a delay-sensitive service of the one or more CMs, wherein the first bandwidth portion accounts for 30% to 50% of the remaining bandwidth;
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• configuring, by the CMTS, as a contention-based bandwidth shared by a delay-sensitive service and a delay-insensitive service, a second bandwidth portion of the remaining bandwidth other than the first bandwidth portion;
• and
• allocating a first part of the second bandwidth portion for one or more contention request CMs of the one or more online CMs in response to each respective contention request CM of the one or more contention request CMs sending the CMTS a respective contention request to handle burst traffic of a flow in an upstream data transmission in allocated upstream bandwidth of the respective contention request CM, wherein the first part of the second bandwidth portion is allocated for the one or more contention request CMs according to a priority of the upstream data transmission for which the respective contention request CM sends the respective connection request.