Performance analysis of ATM traffic on optical wireless LANs

Author

Theodorou, Pavlos ; Ehmirghani, J. ; Cryan, Robert

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Northumbria Univ., Newcastle, UK

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

42675

Lastpage

42680

Abstract

This paper investigates the performance of an IR wireless LAN which is designed to support asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) speech services. Emphasis is placed on the handover priority medium access control (MAC) protocol that utilises both guard and queuing mechanisms. Its performance parameters such as new call blocking probability, packet dropping probability and forced termination probability due to handover failure are revealed for fixed slot assignment. Finally, the information obtained from this study is used in link design to give numerical results of the performance of an ATM IR-LAN where variable bit rate (VBR) voice terminal users (TUs) are served

Keywords

wireless LAN; ATM IR-LAN; ATM traffic; asynchronous transfer mode; fixed slot assignment; forced termination probability; guard mechanism; handover failure; handover priority; link design; medium access control protocol; new call blocking probability; optical wireless LAN; packet dropping probability; performance analysis; performance parameters; queuing mechanism; speech services; variable bit rate; voice terminal users;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Optical Wireless Communications (Ref. No. 1999/128), IEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/ic:19990702

Filename

793880