Title :
Access protocol for broadband multimedia centralized wireless local area networks
Author :
Trabelsi, Chokri
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., Whippany, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The development of wireless local area networks (WLANs) has become a major goal in the field of computer and wireless communications. The Network Technologies Research group at the Communications Research Center in Canada has been working in a project to develop a high speed multimedia outdoor WLAN. In contrast to many existing WLANs, the new WLAN supports multimedia traffic and is intended to be mainly used in an outdoor environment with a coverage range of 20 to 30 km. One of the challenges of this project is the development of a medium access control (MAC) protocol that will enable the voice, video and data terminals to efficiently share the wireless channel. The MAC protocol adopted for this WLAN with a speed of 10 to 20 Mbps is presented
Keywords :
access protocols; broadband networks; data communication; multimedia communication; performance evaluation; telecommunication channels; telecommunication terminals; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; visual communication; voice communication; wireless LAN; 10 to 20 Mbit/s; Canada; Communications Research Center; MAC protocol; TDMA; access protocol; broadband multimedia centralized wireless LAN; computer communications; coverage range; data terminals; high speed multimedia outdoor WLAN; medium access control protocol; multimedia traffic; video terminals; voice terminals; wireless channel; wireless communications; Access protocols; Downlink; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Physical layer; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Wide area networks; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 1997. Proceedings., Second IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Alexandria
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7852-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.1997.616061
