Communication protocol for virtual cellular network (VCN)

A new wireless communication architecture, the `virtual cellular network (VCN)´ was proposed in order to improve the performance of conventional cellular networks. The advantage of the VCN includes increased throughput, easy placing of ports, no handover and simple wireless communications. A random access uplink (mobile-to-station) protocol, the multi-packet encoding (MPE) is proposed for the VCN in order to provide almost fair throughput independently of the position of the mobiles. Moreover, the MPE reduces the backoff delay by using an error correction code, and increases the downlink channel efficiency due to the minimized feedback (ack´s). A minimum group (MG) protocol is proposed for the downlink. The MG protocol supports multicast (several ports send the same downstream packets) as well as unicast (only one port sends the packet to a mobile)