The effect of channel errors on a contention-based reservation TDMA protocol

Author

Liang, Lung-Sing ; Chang, Jin-Fu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

1990

fDate

6-9 May 1990

Firstpage

372

Lastpage

377

Abstract

Contention-based time-division multiple access (TDMA) protocols have good performance in applications such as a very small aperture terminals, with medium to heavy traffic when the channel is error free. For the protocol to operate in a channel that may contain errors, a modified protocol is proposed. Results derived include the average frame length, the average number of waste slots, the average number of residual packets, and the average delay. Numerical examples shown include the effect of channel errors and the margin regained by proper error-control codes. The validity of these results has not only been verified by computer simulations, but also supported by intuitively reasonable trends demonstrated in numerical calculations

Keywords

satellite ground stations; telecommunication channels; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; VSAT; average delay; average frame length; channel errors; contention-based reservation TDMA protocol; residual packets; very small aperture terminals; waste slots; Access protocols; Apertures; Communication system traffic control; Data communication; Delay; Error correction; Error correction codes; Laboratories; Satellite communication; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1990 IEEE 40th

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1990.110350

Filename

110350