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In-Home AV Network Topology
Corinex AV200 Powerline Ethernet Adapter
In multi-network scenarios, such as the one depicted in the picture above, there
is a new entity, called the QoS controller. The QoS controller’s role is to assign
channel access to the different networks. The QoS controller acts at the same time
as the AP of one of the networks. In the presence of several In-Home networks, the
coexistence protocol automatically selects one of the APs as the QoS controller.
4.2.2.1 Two networks with no visibility
If two In-Home AV networks are configured, with no direct visibility between any of
the nodes belonging to different networks, then these two networks will behave as
two independent networks. Both APs will act as QoS controllers.
4.2.2.2 Two networks with direct visibility
Different networks are defined by different network IDs.
If two In-Home AV networks are configured as public networks, the coexistence
protocol will act as if there were only one network. The network ID is transmitted
by every node to communicate the existence of its network. If a node with a network
ID A receives a network ID B, then it knows that there are at least two networks
sharing the channel.
For example, one In-Home AV network is configured and running. A second
network is configured and starts working after the first network is configured. Then
the second network will notify its presence to the first network in some specified
access slots, and both networks will automatically be reconfigured and will share the
channel. If both networks are configured at the same time, the QoS controller will
be selected from all of the present APs.