Patent ID: 8902919
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for scheduling the transmission of user devices on a mixed radio frequency over glass (RFoG) and hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) network comprising: determining whether a lost transmission event occurred between a first user device and second user device in the mixed HFC and RFoG network, wherein the transmission of the first user device and the transmission of the second user device overlapped in time; if a lost transmission event occurred, grouping the first user device and second user device into a category, determining whether a threshold of lost transmission events have occurred between the first user device and the second user device and then associating a data element grouping the first user device and second user device into the category; generating a transmission map for devices on the mixed RFoG and HFC network, the transmission map being based on previous grouping of the devices by: assigning the first user device a slot on the transmission map; determining whether the assignment of the second user device to a slot on the transmission map will overlap in time with the first user device; if the assignment of the second user device to a slot on the transmission map will overlap in time with the first user device, then determining whether the data element is associated with the first user device and the second user device; and if the first user device and the second user device were grouped together by the data element, then assigning the second user device to another time slot.