Title :
An SDMA protocol for wireless multimedia networks
Author :
Yin, Hujun ; Liu, Hui
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
Efficient exploitation of spatial diversity is fundamentally important to resource critical wireless applications. A medium access protocol (MAC) for space division multiple access (SDMA) packet networks is proposed. The new protocol performs scheduling based on users´ spatial characteristics and quality-of-service (QoS) requirements to achieve throughput multiplication and reduction of packet delays. The system´s performance is evaluated under mixed audio and data traffic patterns and the results show that the new protocol can lead to a significant improvement in network performance
Keywords :
access protocols; data communication; delays; diversity reception; land mobile radio; multimedia communication; packet radio networks; quality of service; space division multiple access; telecommunication traffic; MAC protocol; QoS requirements; SDMA packet networks; SDMA protocol; medium access protocol; mixed audio/data traffic patterns; mobile terminal; network performance; packet delay reduction; performance evaluation; quality-of-service; space division multiple access; spatial characteristics scheduling; spatial diversity; throughput multiplication; wireless applications; wireless multimedia networks; Access protocols; Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Physical layer; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Wireless application protocol;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2000. ICASSP '00. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6293-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2000.861003
