A framework for comparative analysis of channel access protocols for wireless ATM networks

Author

Chen, Jyh-Cheng ; Sivalingam, Krishna M. ; Dowd, Patrick W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

29 Sep-2 Oct 1996

Firstpage

281

Abstract

Enormous research interest have been expressed in merging ATM and wireless networks supporting multimedia applications. Research prototyping is currently underway at many leading research and academic institutions. Various architectures have been proposed depending on the intended application domain. One of the key components is the media access control (MAC) protocol, which has to provide support for multimedia traffic and also for quality-of-service guarantees, if required. The paper provides a comparison of previously proposed protocols, and identifies techniques proposed for supporting multimedia traffic and QoS. A preliminary comparison of the protocols based on simulation data is also presented

Keywords

access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; multimedia communication; radio networks; radiocommunication; telecommunication traffic; channel access protocols; media access control protocol; multimedia applications; multimedia traffic; network architectures; performance analysis; quality of service guarantees; research prototyping; simulation data; wireless ATM networks; wireless networks; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Media Access Protocol; Merging; Multiaccess communication; Prototypes; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Personal Communications, 1996. Record., 1996 5th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3300-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUPC.1996.557890

Filename

557890