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US 8,804,516 B2Granted
Opportunistic transmissions within MoCA
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsJack Thomas Matheney, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Albert L. Garrett
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Abstract
Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: aggregating packets, including at least control packets and acknowledgement packets, with other packets.
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A method of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network, comprising:
- aggregating packets, including at least MoCA control packets and MoCA acknowledgement packets, with other packets;
- and
- determining whether to transmit the aggregated packets in one of:
- a unicast transmission mode and a broadcast transmission mode based on the efficiency of each transmission mode in transmitting the aggregated packets to at least one destination in the MoCA network, wherein the efficiency is the fraction of a plurality of available MAP cycles operating on the MoCA network that are dedicated to data transmission, wherein each available MAP cycle comprises a MAP packet.
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A method of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network, comprising:
- aggregating MoCA control packets and small Ethernet Protocol Data Unit (PDU) packets;
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- determining a transmission mode for the aggregated packets based on a quantity of destinations for the aggregated packets, the determined transmission mode being one of the following:
- a unicast transmission mode and a broadcast transmission mode based on the efficiency of each transmission mode in transmitting the aggregated packets to at least one destination in the MoCA network, wherein the efficiency is the fraction of a plurality of available MAP cycles that are dedicated to data transmission wherein each available MAP cycle comprises a MAP packet.
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A system comprising:
- a first node on a MoCA network;
- a second node on a MoCA network;
- a network controller in communication with the first node and the second node capable of aggregating packets, including at least MoCA control packets and acknowledgement packets, with other packets destined for either the first node or the second node;
- determining whether the aggregated packets are destined for one of the following:
- the first node, the second node, and both the first node and the second node;
- and
- when the aggregated packets are destined for both the first node and the second node, determining a most efficient transmission mode for the aggregated packets from the following transmission modes:
- a unicast transmission mode and a broadcast transmission mode, wherein the efficiency is the fraction of a plurality of available MAP cycles that are dedicated to data transmission wherein each available MAP cycle comprises a MAP packet.
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