Title :
Evaluation of traffic capacity for integrated wireless personal communications over metropolitan area networks
Author :
Chan, Henry C B ; Leung, Victor C M ; Donaldson, Robert W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
Metropolitan area networks (MANs) are well suited to support integrated voice and data personal communication services (PCS) by interconnecting wireless base stations (BSs). Whereas data transport is best supported by queue-arbitrated (QA) access to the IEEE 802.6 MAN, several alternatives exist for voice transport, including pre-arbitrated (PA) access, bi-state PA access, QA access, and reservation-arbitrated (RA) access. The voice traffic capacity of these alternatives are compared under different data traffic load. The results indicate that RA access, QA access, and bi-state PA access are preferred under low, medium, and high data traffic load, respectively, as they facilitate statistical multiplexing to almost double the capacity of PA access
Keywords :
IEEE standards; access protocols; data communication; land mobile radio; metropolitan area networks; multiplexing; performance evaluation; personal communication networks; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; voice communication; IEEE 802.6 MAN; bistate prearbitrated access; data traffic load; data transport; integrated voice-data communication; integrated wireless personal communications; metropolitan area networks; prearbitrated access; queue arbitrated access; reservation arbitrated access; statistical multiplexing; traffic capacity; voice traffic capacity; voice transport; wireless base stations; Base stations; Cellular networks; Communication system traffic control; Intserv networks; Metropolitan area networks; Personal communication networks; Pins; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1995. PIMRC'95. Wireless: Merging onto the Information Superhighway., Sixth IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3002-1
DOI :
10.1109/PIMRC.1995.476896
