Estimating system and traffic data in a DOCSIS system
AssigneeARRIS Enterprises LLC
InventorsAyham Al-Banna, Thomas Cloonan
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Abstract
Methods for computing system data (e.g., the number of CMs per DS-SG or US-SG) and traffic data (e.g., the number of online CMs, the number of active CMs, the percentage of time a CM is online, the percentage of time a CM is active, and the concurrency of CMs) in a DOCSIS system are disclosed.
Claims13
A method for determining system data in a data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) system, the method comprising:
- computing fiber nodes in each media access control (MAC) domain (MD) and MAC Domain CM Service Group (MD-CM-SG);
- computing registered cable modems in each MD and MD-CM-SG;
- and
- for each MD and MD-CM-SG, allocating the registered cable modems in each the MD and MD-CM-SG among the fiber nodes in a cable modem-service group (CM-SG) included in a respective MD-CM-SG;
- and
- computing the registered cable modems for each fiber node;
- wherein computing the number of fiber nodes in each MD and MD-CM-SG comprises utilizing the DOCSIS Management Information Base (MIB) object docsIf3MdNodeStatusEntry to obtain the MD and MD-CM-SGs and fiber nodes for each MD and MD-CM-SG.
A system for determining system data in a data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) system, the system comprising:
- means for computing fiber nodes in each media access control (MAC) Domain (MD) and MAC Domain-Cable Modem-Service Group;
- (MD-CM-SG)
- means for computing registered cable modems in each MD and MD-CM-SG;
- and
- means for allocating, for each MD and MD-CM-SG, the registered cable modems in each MD and MD-CM SGs among fiber nodes in a Cable Modem-Service Group (CM-SG) included in a respective the MD and MD-CM-SG;
- and
- means for computing the registered cable modems for each fiber node;
- wherein the means for computing the fiber nodes in each MD and MD-CM-SG comprises utilizing the DOCSIS Management Information Base (MIB) object docsIf3MdNodeStatusEntry to obtain the MD and MD-CM-SGs and the fiber nodes for each MD and MD-CM-SG.
A method of computing traffic data in a data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) system comprising:
- computing the amount of time a cable modem spends in an inactive state over an observation period, an inactive time;
- computing the amount of time the cable modem spends offline over the observation period, an offline time;
- computing the amount of time the cable modem spends in an active state over the observation period, an active time;
- and
- computing an online time of the cable modem as the active time plus the inactive time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.