Performance evaluation of a reservation TDMA protocol for voice/data transmission in microcellular systems

Author

Fantacci, Romano ; Nannicini, Saverio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Florence Univ., Italy

Volume

18

Issue

11

fYear

2000

Firstpage

2404

Lastpage

2416

Abstract

This paper deals with a random reservation TDMA protocol able to support constant bit rate services as well as variable bit rate services. In particular, voice communications and data transmissions are considered. Voice terminals have a higher priority assigned than data terminals in accessing the shared channel. A suitable analytical approach is proposed in order to evaluate the data and voice subsystem performance. Comparisons to the well known PRMA scheme are also given in order to highlight the superior performance of the proposed approach in terms of maximum data load and overall throughput.

Keywords

access protocols; integrated voice/data communication; microcellular radio; packet radio networks; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; constant bit rate services; data terminals; data transmissions; maximum data load; microcellular systems; overall throughput; performance evaluation; reservation TDMA protocol; shared channel; subsystem performance; variable bit rate services; voice communications; voice terminals; voice/data transmission; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Data communication; Permission; Personal communication networks; Quality of service; Speech analysis; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.895045

Filename

895045