A Priority Scheme for the IEEE 802.14 MAC

In order to support quality-of-service (QoS) forreal-time data communications such as voice, video and interactiveservices, multiaccess networks must provide an effectivepriority mechanism. The context of this work is the IEEE 802.14standard for hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) networks which hasa shared upstream channel for transmissions from stations tothe headend. This work presents a multilevel priority collisionresolution scheme, which separates and resolves collisions betweenstations in ...