Title :
Packet delay in a frequency-hop communication network
Author_Institution :
Korea Inst. of Technol., Taejon, South Korea
Abstract :
The packet delay measured in average number of transmissions before successful transmission of a packet in a slotted frequency-hop packet radio network is considered. Reed-Solomon coding is employed to correct the errors or the erasures occurring due to the multiple-access interference. The packet delay is obtained in terms of code rate and channel traffic, and the constraint on these for the delay to be less than a specific value is determined. An accurate approximation to the constraint is also derived. The throughput of the network is investigated along with the constraint on the delay is investigated to see the tradeoffs in the parameters of the network. Cases of both side information and no side information are considered
Keywords :
packet switching; radio networks; Reed-Solomon coding; channel traffic; code rate; frequency-hop communication network; multiple-access interference; packet delay; packet radio network; throughput; Communication networks; Delay; Error correction; Frequency measurement; Interference constraints; Multiple access interference; Packet radio networks; Reed-Solomon codes; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1989. ICC '89, BOSTONICC/89. Conference record. 'World Prosperity Through Communications', IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1989.49818
