DocumentCode
770891
Title
Dynamic Frame Length ALOHA
Author
Schoute, Frits C.
Author_Institution
Philips´´ Telecommunicatie Industrie B.V., The Netherlands
Volume
31
Issue
4
fYear
1983
fDate
4/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
565
Lastpage
568
Abstract
Adding frame structure to slotted ALOHA makes it very convenient to control the ALOHA channel and eliminate instability. The frame length is adjusted dynamically according to the number of garbled, successful, and empty timeslots in the past. Each terminal that has a packet to transmit selects at random one of the 
timeslots of a frame. Dynamic frame length ALOHA achieves a throughput (expected number of successful packets per timeslot) of 0.426 which compares favorably with the 
upper bound of ordinary slotted ALOHA.
timeslots of a frame. Dynamic frame length ALOHA achieves a throughput (expected number of successful packets per timeslot) of 0.426 which compares favorably with the upper bound of ordinary slotted ALOHA.Keywords
Feedback communication; Land-mobile communications; Packet switching; Control systems; Feedback control; Mobile computing; Packet switching; Protocols; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication control; Telecommunication switching; Throughput; Upper bound;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0090-6778
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TCOM.1983.1095854
Filename
1095854
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