RAP-a novel medium access control protocol for wireless data networks

Author

Chen, Kwang-Cheng ; Lee, Cheng-Hua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

1993

fDate

29 Nov-2 Dec 1993

Firstpage

1713

Abstract

A novel medium access control scheme, randomly addressed polling (RAP), is proposed and studied. RAP used in wireless networks allows that the base stations poll successfully only knowing the active mobile nodes via decentralized control without knowing the exact mobile nodes under coverage. Therefore, RAP can provide seemingless services for wireless (data) networks with good utilization of channel(s), transparent to multiple physical transmission, power efficiency for mobile nodes, and no handoff for data services (soft handoff for time-bounded services). In addition, the RAP protocol in infrastructured wireless (data) network architectures can be practically implemented with simple hardware and thus well suited for the medium access control protocol for wireless LANs and other personal communication systems,

Keywords

cellular radio; channel capacity; data communication systems; delays; local area networks; performance evaluation; personal communication networks; protocols; LAN; RAP; active mobile nodes; base stations; channel; decentralized control; handoff; infrastructured wireless network architectures; medium access control protocol; personal communication systems; power efficiency; randomly addressed polling; seemingless services; time-bounded services; wireless data networks; Access protocols; Base stations; Distributed control; Hardware; Infrared spectra; Media Access Protocol; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1993, including a Communications Theory Mini-Conference. Technical Program Conference Record, IEEE in Houston. GLOBECOM '93., IEEE

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0917-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1993.318362

Filename

318362