SCTE 139 : 2007

1 SCOPE
  1.1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
  1.2 ASSUMPTIONS
  1.3 MODULAR CMTS INTERFACE STANDARDS
  1.4 REQUIREMENTS AND CONVENTIONS
2 REFERENCES
  2.1 NORMATIVE REFERENCES
  2.2 REFERENCE ACQUISITION
3 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
4 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
5 TECHNICAL OVERVIEW
  5.1 REGISTRATION INTERFACE
      5.1.1 Goals, Scope and Constraints
      5.1.2 Overall Architecture
      5.1.3 DRRP Operation
  5.2 RESOURCE ALLOCATION SIGNALING
      5.2.1 Resource Allocation Components and Interface
      5.2.2 Service Groups
      5.2.3 Signaling Protocol
      5.2.4 Selecting an ERM
  5.3 STATIC PARTITIONING
      5.3.1 Simplified Architecture for Static QAM Resource
             Sharing
      5.3.2 Operation
  5.4 DEVICE CONFIGURATION
6 DOCSIS RESOURCE REGISTRATION PROTOCOL (DRRP)
  SPECIFICATION
  6.1 RELATIONSHIP WITH TRIP [RFC 3219]
  6.2 DRRP
      6.2.1 Establishing a DRRP Connection
      6.2.2 Message Formats
      6.2.3 DRRP Attributes
      6.2.4 DRRP Error Detection and Handling
      6.2.5 Negotiating the DRRP Version
      6.2.6 DRRP Capability Negotiation
      6.2.7 DRRP Finite State Machine
7 RESOURCE CONFIGURATION AND ALLOCATION
  7.1 RTSP PROTOCOL
      7.1.1 RTSP URL
      7.1.2 RTSP methods
      7.1.3 RTSP State Machine
      7.1.4 RTSP headers
      7.1.5 RTSP extensions
      7.1.6 Keepalives and timeout
      7.1.7 RTSP Response Code
      7.1.8 Resource allocation operation
      7.1.9 Multiple QAM channels in MAC Domain
      7.1.10 Synchronization with DEPI control [DSS 06-01r1]
APPENDIX I - EXAMPLE DRRP MESSAGE EXCHANGES
 I.1 OPEN MESSAGE
 I.2 KEEPALIVE MESSAGE
 I.3 UPDATE MESSAGE
 I.4 NOTIFICATION MESSAGE
APPENDIX II - EXAMPLES - RTSP
 II.1 SESSION SETUP
 II.2 SESSION TEARDOWN
 II.3 SESSION KEEPALIVE
 II.4 GET PARAMETER
 II.5 SESSION ANNOUNCE
APPENDIX III - USE CASES
 III.1 BOOTING AN EQAM
 III.2 THE M-CMTS OBTAINS A DOWNSTREAM RESOURCE
 III.3 THE M-CMTS CORE RELEASES A DOWNSTREAM RESOURCE
 III.4 EQAM FORCES SHUTDOWN OF A QAM CHANNEL
 III.5 BROKEN CONNECTIONS
       III.5.1 ERMI-1 transport connection broken
       III.5.2 ERMI-2 transport connection broken
       III.5.3 ERMI-3 transport connection broken
 III.6 DEVICE FAILURES
       III.6.1 Complete EQAM failure
       III.6.2 Complete M-CMTS core failure
       III.6.3 Complete ERM failure
 III.7 DEVICE REBOOTS
       III.7.1 EQAM reboot
       III.7.2 M-CMTS core reboot
       III.7.3 ERM reboot

Specifies interfaces that are used by Edge QAM devices (EQAMs), Edge Resource Managers (ERMs) and M-CMTS cores within the context of a Modular Cable Modem Termination System (M-CMTS).