Performance evaluation of the PRMA protocol for voice and data transmissions in low Earth orbit mobile satellite systems

Author

Del Re, Enrico ; Fantacci, Romano ; Giambene, Giovanni

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Florence Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

5-9 Oct 1998

Firstpage

1037

Abstract

The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) will provide multimedia services to users in whatever environment via uniform service access procedures. Efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols are needed to guarantee a high capacity. This paper deals with packet reservation multiple access (PRMA), widely considered as an efficient MAC protocol in terrestrial microcellular systems, for voice and data transmissions in a UMTS based on low Earth orbit-mobile satellite systems (LEO-MSSs). Through a suitable choice of the system parameter values, the PRMA protocol may achieve a good quality of service also in LEO-MSSs

Keywords

access protocols; integrated voice/data communication; mobile satellite communication; packet reservation multiple access; quality of service; LEO-MSS; MAC protocols; PRMA protocol; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; data transmission; low Earth orbit mobile satellite systems; medium access control protocols; performance evaluation; quality of service; voice transmissions; 3G mobile communication; Access protocols; Artificial satellites; Asynchronous transfer mode; Data communication; Low earth orbit satellites; Media Access Protocol; Permission; Satellite broadcasting; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Personal Communications, 1998. ICUPC '98. IEEE 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

ISSN

1091-8442

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5106-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUPC.1998.733662

Filename

733662