Broadband wireless networks: an investigation into the on demand TDMA MAC protocol and the connection reestablishment performance guarantee

Author

Kubbar, Osama ; Mouftah, H.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada

Volume

6

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1797

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the behavior of multiplexed traffic streams of different traffic classes in the radio environment, and study the effect of such behavior on the performance of the on demand TDMA (D-TDMA) MAC protocol. An adaptive polling mechanism, referred to as polling respond-bandwidth reservation algorithm (PR-BRA), is proposed for providing a bounded channel access delay for the active/ready variable bit rate virtual channels (VBR VCs). The performance of PR-BRA is investigated under different traffic load and network conditions, and a general conclusion on the system performance is drawn

Keywords

access protocols; adaptive systems; broadband networks; delays; multiplexing; radio networks; telecommunication channels; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; active/ready VBR VC; adaptive polling mechanism; bounded channel access delay; broadband wireless networks; connection reestablishment performance guarantee; multiplexed traffic streams; network conditions; on demand TDMA MAC protocol; polling respond-bandwidth reservation algorithm; radio environment; system performance; traffic classes; traffic load; variable bit rate virtual channels; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; System performance; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiple access; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2001. ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7097-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2001.937101

Filename

937101