An Aloha-based channel access scheme investigation for broadband wireless networks

Author

Kubbar, Osama ; Mouftah, H.T.

Author_Institution

Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

203

Lastpage

208

Abstract

We thoroughly analyze the performance of the slotted Aloha (S-Aloha) scheme as a channel access method for a hybrid demand assignment TDMA protocol for broadband wireless networks. The performance of such embedded S-Aloha (ES-Aloha) is compared with the normal S-Aloha scheme, as a stand-alone scheme, and some useful results and conclusions are drawn. In addition, the importance of some performance measures for the channel access scheme is identified and their impact on QoS provisioning is defined. Moreover, the effect of call admission control (CAC) in the broadband wireless network performance is discussed and a general conclusion is presented

Keywords

broadband networks; demand assigned multiple access; packet radio networks; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; time division multiple access; CAC; ES-Aloha; QoS provisioning; TDMA; broadband wireless networks; call admission control; channel access scheme; embedded S-Aloha; hybrid demand assignment protocol; performance; slotted Aloha; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Base stations; Communication networks; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Time division multiple access; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1999. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Red Sea

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0250-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.1999.780809

Filename

780809