CONTENTS

 1     Scope
 2     References
        2.1     Normative references
        2.2     Non-normative references
 3     Definitions
 4     Abbreviations
 5     Introduction
 6     Grade of Service parameters
 7     Traffic engineering considerations
        7.1     Factors affecting upstream capacity
                  7.1.1     Channel characteristics
                  7.1.2     Protocol features
                  7.1.3     Propagation delay
        7.2     Protocol for upstream transmission
 8     Dimensioning of a single upstream
        8.1     Voice capacity
        8.2     Available capacity for data
 9     DOCSIS 1.0 and DOCSIS 1.1 interoperability
10     Upstream channel pooling
       10.1     Immediate upstream channel change
       10.2     Voice slot jitter
       10.3     Assignment algorithms
11     History
Appendix I - Example calculation of upstream channel capacity
Appendix II - Example of jitter window