A performance comparison of ALOHA-reservation and PRMA in integrated voice and data wireless local area networks

Author

Suzuki, Takahiro ; Tasaka, Shuji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

1992

Firstpage

754

Abstract

Reservation media access control (MAC) protocols for integrated voice and data wireless LANs are studied. Simulation is used to compare the performance of two reservation protocols: ALOHA-reservation and packet reservation multiple access (PRMA). Emphasis is placed on the maximum number of terminals that the system can support within given values of the voice packet dropping probability and average data delay. Results show that the difference in the maximum number between the two protocols is small. It is seen that if data messages are long and if the number of terminals is not so large, the average data delay of ALOHA-reservation is smaller than that of PRMA

Keywords

ISDN; delays; local area networks; packet radio networks; performance evaluation; protocols; ALOHA-reservation; MAC protocols; PRMA; average data delay; data messages; integrated voice and data wireless LANs; local area networks; media access control; packet reservation multiple access; performance comparison; terminals; voice packet dropping probability; Base stations; Computer networks; Costs; Delay; Intelligent networks; Local area networks; Microcell networks; Switches; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '92. ''Technology Enabling Tomorrow : Computers, Communications and Automation towards the 21st Century.' 1992 IEEE Region 10 International Conference.

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0849-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1992.271869

Filename

271869