Performance analysis of combined free/demand assignment multiple access (CFDAMA) protocol for packet satellite communications

Author

Mohammed, Jahangir I. ; Le-Ngoc, Tho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

1994

fDate

1-5 May 1994

Firstpage

869

Abstract

Combined free/demand assignment multiple access (CFDAMA) protocols are suitable for networking bursty data terminals using a wideband packet satellite. We analyze the performance of CFDAMA that use piggybacked reservation. The probability generating function (PGF) of the message delay is developed. The performance is evaluated in terms of average packet delay, variance of packet delay and cumulative probability distribution of packet delay. Comparison with other existing schemes shows CFDAMA to be superior in terms of all the above three performance measures, for a range of user population size

Keywords

data communication equipment; delays; demand assigned multiple access; interactive terminals; packet switching; performance evaluation; probability; satellite communication; bursty data terminals networking; combined free/demand assignment multiple access; cumulative probability distribution; message delay; packet delay; packet satellite communications; performance analysis; performance measures; piggybacked reservation; probability generating function; protocol; user population size; variance; wideband packet satellite; Access protocols; Artificial satellites; Computer networks; Data engineering; Delay; Performance analysis; Probability distribution; Satellite communication; Size measurement; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1994. ICC '94, SUPERCOMM/ICC '94, Conference Record, 'Serving Humanity Through Communications.' IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1825-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1994.368973

Filename

368973