Method to assign upstream timeslots to a network terminal, and network terminal and medium access controller for performing such a method
CA 2271968 A1 · Owner: Hoebeke, Rudy George · Inventors: Hoebeke, Rudy George
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Upstream timeslots are assigned to a network terminal in a time division multiplexed communications network by means of queue grants, each of, these queue grants corresponding to a storage queue within said network terminal and associated with a particular service category. The rate of the queue, grant bitstream composed of succeeding occurrences of these queue grants is thereby determined from at least one parameter of a parameter set associated to, the corresponding storage queue and from at least one other parameter of at least one other parameter set associated to at least one other storage queue within any of the network terminals within the communications network. The present …
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