Analysis and Implementation of Time-Slot Allocation in TDMA System with Limited Queue Constraint in WLANs

Author

Chen, Jenhui ; Jiang, Shuhua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Chang Gung Univ., Taoyuan

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper analyzes the characteristics of time division multiple access (TDMA) scheme to improve the performance of data transmissions in wireless networks. After analyzing these characteristics, we design an efficient medium access control (MAC) mechanism based on our analysis. Because of the variable characteristics of TDMA we analyzed, we could get a time slot period to achieve the system throughput more optimal. Our proposed protocol is based on our analysis and schedule with a carefully computation. The slot(s) can be divided into several minislots as the contention interval which is used by subscribers to transmit the control packets to base station. We conclude with an approximate optimal throughput through our MAC mechanism.

Keywords

access protocols; channel allocation; data communication; queueing theory; time division multiple access; wireless LAN; MAC mechanism; TDMA system; WLANs; data transmissions; limited queue constraint; medium access control mechanism; time division multiple access scheme; time-slot allocation; wireless networks; Access protocols; Base stations; Data communication; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Processor scheduling; Queueing analysis; Throughput; Time division multiple access; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2006. VTC-2006 Fall. 2006 IEEE 64th

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0062-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0063-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCF.2006.160

Filename

4109425