Performance evaluation of a TDMA-based randomly addressed polling protocol for wireless LANs

Author

Nicopolitidis, P. ; Papadimitriou, G.I. ; Obaidat, M.S. ; Pomportsis, A.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle Univ., Thessaloniki, Greece

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1079

Abstract

A TDMA-based randomly addressed polling protocol (TRAP) is proposed. TRAP employs a variable-length TDMA-based contention stage with the length based on the number of active stations. Simulation results are presented that reveal the superiority of TRAP against the RAP protocol in cases of medium and high offered loads. Furthermore, the implementation of TRAP is much simpler than that of CDMA-based versions of RAP, since no extra hardware is needed for the orthogonal reception of the random addresses.

Keywords

fading channels; land mobile radio; protocols; time division multiple access; wireless LAN; TDMA-based randomly addressed polling protocol; TRAP; active mobile stations; active stations; offered loads; orthogonal reception; variable-length TDMA-based contention stage; wireless LANs; Aggregates; Computational modeling; Computer science; Hardware; Informatics; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2002. 9th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7596-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2002.1046438

Filename

1046438