Protocol performance using ACK priority

摘要

A method and system are provided for improving performance in a communication system comprising: requesting a first service ID 30 and a second service ID 32 from an upstream termination system 14; using the first service ID 30 to service upstream data packet 28 transmissions; and using the second service ID 32 to service upstream acknowledge packet 20 transmissions providing an approach by which ACK packets 20 acknowledging downstream packets 18 are not queued behind data packets 28 in the upstream channel 26. Other systems and methods are disclosed.