CableLabsSpecification Engineering Change (EC) Form Project EC TRACKING INFORMATION (Blue fields to be completed by CableLabs only) DOCSIS N Identifier PHYv3.1-N-14.1136-5 Status Affected Specification ECR Date ECO Date ECN Date ECN Effective Date CM-SP-PHYV3.1-I01-131029 2/12/2014 Comment Period End Date 2/12/2014 SEVERITY 2/26/2014 Comment Period End Date 2/26/2014 Non-Critical 2/26/2014 108 Critical Cert Wave No Overall Type of Change (Tech/Edit/Both) Both Version 5 CHANGE TYPE Minor Major TO OBTAIN LATEST ISSUED SPECIFICATION WORD VERSION, CLICK HERE : https://www.cablelabs.com/doczone/docsis/requirements/specs/current/issued/ TO SUBMIT EC, EMAIL COMPLETED FORM TO: docsis_ec@cablelabs.com SPECIFICATION DOCUMENT DETAILS Document EC is written against: CM-SP-PHYv3.1 Issued Version # I01 AUTHOR INFORMATION Primary Author Email Company Additional Contributors First Belal Last Hamzeh b.hamzeh@cablelabs.com CableLabs DOCSIS 3.1 PHY working group Title of EC Date sent to CableLabs PHYv3.1 Feature Enhancements 1/29/2014 Date of revised EC Brief description of revision 2/26/14 Minor editorial changes Country Phone USA 303-661-9100 ENGINEERING CHANGE DOCUMENT DETAILS EC REVISION HISTORY DETAILED PROPOSED CHANGES Sections Affected PHY3.1 Omnibus REQs Affected Yes Test Plans Affected No OTHER RELATED ENGINEERING CHANGES (LIST ALL THE APPLY) The following EC(s) are recommended to be processed in conjunction with this document: EC# Title of EC Affected Document N/A N/A N/A NOTE! IMPORTANT EC AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS: For an ECR to advance to ECO status: - Requirements Affected section of the embedded DOCSIS-SpecDetailChange.docx must be completed. - If applicable, the embedded TestPlanDetailChanges.docx must be completed. For an ECO to advance to ECN status: - If applicable, compiled MIB files and final Schema docs must be attached before requested changes can move to ECN status and noted as attachments in the table directly below. DOCSIS_Spec-TestPlan_EC-Form_10-2013.docx 1 of 3 In submitting the Engineering Change Request ("ECR"), the Author(s) [primary author, additional authors, and contributors], individually and as an authorized representative of the Company, agrees that if CableLabs incorporates this ECR in whole or in part into the relevant Specification, all intellectual property in the ECR shall be licensed royalty free, and without confidentiality, under the terms of the "Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications License Agreement" ("Contribution Agreement"). CableLabs may disclose the content of this ECR to CableLabs' members and such others as is necessary for the development of CableLabs' specifications. Questions about the Authors' licensing of intellectual property in this ECR submission may be directed to legal@cablelabs.com. This Engineering Change has the following file(s) attached. Type of Attachment(s) (Visio, Word, txt, .yang, etc.) File Name of Attachment(s) DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM: This EC incorporates all modifications and additions made to the DOCSIS 3.1 PHY I01 specification. Changes were made in many sections of the specification. Changes to the D3.1 PHY I01 incorporated in this version 1 omnibus ECR include but are not necessarily limited to the following: Updated 3 Terms and Definitions: active subcarrier, carrier-to-noise ratio, dynamic range window, encompassed spectrum, frame (removed), group delay variation, guard band modulated spectrum, occupied bandwidth, OFDMA frame, PHY link channel frame, roll-off period, symbol duration, unused subcarrier, zero valued minislot (removed). Updates to 4 Abbreviations and Acronyms: µs, DC (removed), MSM, RP Updates to 6.2 PHY Sublayer for SC-QAM: Upstream Transmit and receive: references to SC-QAM – only requirements from DOCSIS 3.0 PHY specifications. Updated 7.2.5 Channel Band Rules: downstream channel bandwidth rules, downstream exclusion band rules, upstream channel bandwidth rules. Updated 7.3.3 Subcarrier Clocking Updated 7.4.2.1 Framing Updated 7.4.4.1 FEC Codeword Selection Updated 7.4.5 Data Randomization Updated 7.4.6 Time and Frequency Interleaving and Deinterleaving Updated 7.4.7 Mapping of Bits to Cell Words Updated 7.4.8 Mapping and De-mapping Bits to/from QAM subcarriers Updated 7.4.8.2 Constellation Mapping Updated 7.4.9 REQ Messages Added 7.4.12 Burst Timing Convention Updated 7.4.13 Fidelity Requirements Updated 7.4.13.1 Transmit Power Requirements Added 7.4.13.1.1 Transmit Power Requirements with Multiple Transmit Channel Mode Enabled Added 7.4.13.2 OFDMA Transmit Power Calculations Updated 7.4.13.3 Global Reconfiguration Time for OFDMA Channels Updated 7.4.13.4.1 Spurious Emissions Added 7.4.15.2 CMTS Receiver Error Ratio Performance in AWGN Channel Updated 7.4.16.1.2 Initial Ranging Signal Updated 7.4.16.1.5 Padding and Randomizing Updated 7.4.16.1.6 Symbol duplicating cyclic prefix and windowing Updated 7.4.16.2.2 Transmission of the fine ranging signal Updated 7.4.16.2.4 Padding and Randomizing Updated 7.4.16.2.5 Exclusion Bandwidths Updated 7.4.17.1 Pilot Patterns for 8-Subcarrier Minislots Updated 7.4.17.2 Pilot Patterns for 16-Subcarrier Minislots DOCSIS_Spec-TestPlan_EC-Form_10-2013.docx 2 of 3 In submitting the Engineering Change Request ("ECR"), the Author(s) [primary author, additional authors, and contributors], individually and as an authorized representative of the Company, agrees that if CableLabs incorporates this ECR in whole or in part into the relevant Specification, all intellectual property in the ECR shall be licensed royalty free, and without confidentiality, under the terms of the "Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications License Agreement" ("Contribution Agreement"). CableLabs may disclose the content of this ECR to CableLabs' members and such others as is necessary for the development of CableLabs' specifications. Questions about the Authors' licensing of intellectual property in this ECR submission may be directed to legal@cablelabs.com. Updated 7.4.17.3 Pilot Boosting Updated 7.4.17.6 Pilot Modulation Updated 7.4.18 Upstream Pre-Equalization Updated 7.5.3.4 Downstream Timing Acquisition Accuracy Updated 7.5.7.1 Downstream Transmitter Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform Updated 7.5.9.1.2 Out-of-Band Noise and Spurious Requirements for CMTS Updated 7.5.10.1 CMTS Output Electrical Requirements Updated 7.5.11 Cable Modem Receiver Input Requirements Updated 7.5.13.8 Randomizing the PLC Subcarriers Updated 8.3.2 MAC Frame to Codewords Updated 8.3.4 Next Codeword Pointer and sub-sections Updated 9 Proactive Network Maintenance and sub-sections CHANGE DETAILS FOR THE SPECIFICATION: Complete Engineering Change details for the specification is contained in the following embedded file: EChange_PHYv3.1-1 4.1136-5.docx CHANGE DETAILS FOR THE TEST PLAN (ATP): Complete Engineering Change details for the test plan is contained in the following embedded file: No test plan changes are included with this omnibus EC since DOCSIS 3.1 PHY ATP has not been completed and released yet. End of Request Additional Instructions to EC Author Embed_Doc_TrkChg_ Instr.docx DOCSIS_Spec-TestPlan_EC-Form_10-2013.docx 3 of 3 In submitting the Engineering Change Request ("ECR"), the Author(s) [primary author, additional authors, and contributors], individually and as an authorized representative of the Company, agrees that if CableLabs incorporates this ECR in whole or in part into the relevant Specification, all intellectual property in the ECR shall be licensed royalty free, and without confidentiality, under the terms of the "Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications License Agreement" ("Contribution Agreement"). CableLabs may disclose the content of this ECR to CableLabs' members and such others as is necessary for the development of CableLabs' specifications. Questions about the Authors' licensing of intellectual property in this ECR submission may be directed to legal@cablelabs.com.