A medium access protocol for wireless LANs which supports isochronous and asynchronous traffic

Author

Romans, Chris ; Tourrilhes, Jean

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Labs., Bristol, UK

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

8-11 Sep 1998

Firstpage

147

Abstract

In this paper we present a medium access control (MAC) protocol for a wireless LAN which is designed to support both isochronous (voice) and asynchronous (data) traffic. The protocol is designed for use in a frequency hopping system and uses a TDMA access protocol to support voice and a CSMA/CA access protocol to support data. A wireless LAN using this protocol can be operated as either an ad-hoc network (in which case only the data service is supported) or as a managed network under the control of a control point or base station (in which case the voice service is also supported)

Keywords

access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; frequency hop communication; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; wireless LAN; 2.4 GHz; CSMA/CA access protocol; MAC protocol; TDMA access protocol; ad-hoc network; asynchronous traffic; data traffic; frequency hopping system; isochronous traffic; managed network; medium access control protocol; network architecture; voice traffic; wireless LAN; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Base stations; Communication system traffic control; Frequency; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Time division multiple access; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1998. The Ninth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4872-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.1998.733532

Filename

733532