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AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsMark Dale, Hebsgaard Anders, David Hartman, Alan Kwentus, Steven Jaffe, Kelly Cameron, Stephen Krafft, Alan Gin, Jen-chieh (Jack) Chien, Dorothy Lin, Rocco Brescia, Joyce Wang
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In a DOCSIS based satellite gateway data is transmitted over a single downstream channel, at different throughput rates. Data destined for each subscriber/receiver is assigned a throughput rate depending upon the downstream signal quality of that subscriber/receiver. To accomplish this, the downstream DOCSIS MAC data is parsed to extract DOCSIS packets. The DOCSIS packets are then loaded into packet queues based on an identifier within such packets such as the MAC destination address or SID. Each of the queues represents a bandwidth efficiency or throughput rate that can be currently tolerated by specific subscribers based on the current signal quality being experienced at the subscriber location. A PHY-MAP describing the downstream data structure to be transmitted and inserted into the downstream data. Data is extracted from the packet queues in queue blocks as defined by the PHY-MAP. The queue blocks are modulated with transmission parameters appropriate for each queue block and transmitted to the DOCSIS based satellite modems. The satellite modems extract the PHY-MAP from the downstream data and use the information contained in it to demodulate and decode the queue for which they have sufficient downstream signal quality. Satellite modems measure and transmit downstream signal quality to the satellite gateway to be used to assigned traffic to the appropriate queues.
A method of adaptively controlling a throughput rate of data traffic destined for each of a plurality of receivers, the data traffic combined into a single data stream and transmitted over a single downstream channel, the method comprising:
An apparatus for adaptively controlling a throughput rate of data traffic destined for each of a plurality of receivers, the data traffic combined into a single data stream and transmitted over a single downstream channel, the apparatus comprising:
A method of adaptively controlling a throughput rate of data traffic destined for each of a plurality of receivers, the data traffic combined into a data stream and transmitted over a downstream channel, the method comprising:
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