Disaster scenarios for hybrid TDMA wireless MAC protocols with contention based signaling

Author

Cameron, F. ; Zukerman, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

369

Abstract

The multi-slot stack random access algorithm (msSTART) is proposed for use in IEEE 802.14 hybrid fiber/coaxial network and will be highly relevant for the S-MAC development of evolving WATM hybrid TDMA MAC specifications. This paper studies the performance of msSTART as an example of a Q-ary tree contention resolution algorithm (CRA) in the wireless environment using the novel basic deadlock model. We contrast approximate results for msSTART performance obtained by simulation under extreme inter-station correlation with analytical results for the more popular p-persistence CRA used in several testbed WATM implementations. Using a simple three state model to capture the effect of piggybacking of data packets, we provide comparative results for evaluation of msSTART and p-persistence Aloha under what the IEEE 802.14 Working Group has termed the `disaster scenario´

Keywords

access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; cellular radio; data communication; digital simulation; packet radio networks; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication standards; time division multiple access; trees (mathematics); IEEE 802.14 Working Group; IEEE 802.14 hybrid fiber/coaxial network; Q-ary tree contention resolution algorithm; S-MAC; WATM hybrid TDMA MAC specifications; approximate results; basic deadlock model; cellular radio; contention based signaling; data packets piggybacking; disaster scenarios; hybrid TDMA wireless MAC protocols; inter-station correlation; msSTART; multi-slot stack random access algorithm; p-persistence Aloha; p-persistence CRA; performance; simulation; testbed WATM implementations; three state model; wireless environment; Access protocols; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Centralized control; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; System recovery; Testing; Time division multiple access; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1999. GLOBECOM '99

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeireo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5796-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1999.831665

Filename

831665