Why channel broadcast? It should be more like channel on demand, but probably in that case the zapping time is more relevant. But considering a phisical access channel like ADSL2+ it has to be channel on demand because with ~~20Mbps forget Channel broadcast (for the usual number of channels)...
So considering this you have a client-server communication and that question of channel identification is not applicable.
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