Title :
A general analysis of the packet delay in TDMA channels with contiguous-slot assignments
Author :
Steyaert, Bart ; Bruneel, Herwig
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Commun. Eng., Ghent State Univ., Belgium
Abstract :
A TDMA scheme with contiguous-slot allocation for the stations is considered. For this kind of system, I. Rubin and Z. Zhang (1988) have derived an exact expression for the probability generating function of the packet delay, assuming a geometric or a Bernoulli arrival stream, while an approximate expression was obtained by H. Bruneel (1986), considering a general arrival process. The authors derive an exact closed-form expression which is valid for general independent arrivals. Also presented are simple and tight upper and lower bounds for the mean packet delay
Keywords :
packet switching; queueing theory; telecommunication channels; time division multiple access; TDMA channels; contiguous-slot assignments; general independent arrivals; packet delay; probability generating function; queueing; Closed-form solution; Delay; Laboratories; Queueing analysis; Random number generation; Random variables; Steady-state; Time division multiple access;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1991. ICC '91, Conference Record. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0006-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1991.162258
