Abstract
While the cable television industry has made significant investments in infrastructure to improve the number and quality of services delivered to their end customers, they still face the problem of limited bandwidth of signals down "the last mile" of coaxial cable to the subscriber premises. This thesis investigates an approach devised by the author to overcome this limitation. The method involves clustering of channels in both the upstream and downstream directions in a DOCSIS compliant cable system. A model of this approach is made and the theoretical maximum throughput is calculated for several scenarios. Results are compared to performance of existing systems. It is found that proposed approach yields significantly more throughput for a given RF bandwidth than others in the comparison.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Cable television; Telecommunication--Traffic; Data transmission systems
Publication Date
2010
Document Type
Thesis
Advisor
Yuan, Bo
Recommended Citation
Pisano, David, "Determining the feasibility of a method for improving bandwidth utilization of cable networks" (2010). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from
https://repository.rit.edu/theses/807
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
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