Handoff effect on packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) in microcellular system

Author

Park, Dongsuk ; Bang, JongHo ; Tekinay, Sirin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA

Volume

52

Issue

5

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1232

Lastpage

1241

Abstract

Packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) has been proposed for third-generation wireless information networks by D.J. Goodman and S.X. Wei (see ibid., vol.40, p.170-6, 1991). The mobile-initiated handoff has been proposed to disperse the base station (BS) burden, which is increased by the small microcell radius. However, increased contentions, due to handoff, affect the overall performance of PRMA, even though these frequent handoffs do not burden the BS. We analyze the handoff effect on PRMA performance under a microcellular system, both voice-only and combined voice-and-data systems. A steady state voice-terminal model with handoff is proposed. System-equilibrium equations are derived using the proposed model. The system performance is evaluated, using a Markov analysis method, in terms of packet-dropping probability, data-packet delay, and throughput. The change of performance under handoff show the impact of handoff on PRMA.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Markov processes; information networks; integrated voice/data communication; microcellular radio; packet radio networks; packet reservation multiple access; probability; voice communication; Markov analysis method; PRMA; base station burden; data-packet delay; handoff effect; information networks; microcell radius; microcellular system; packet reservation multiple access; packet-dropping probability; third-generation wireless networks; throughput; voice-and-data system; voice-only system; Delay; Equations; Intelligent networks; Microcell networks; Performance analysis; Probability; Speech analysis; System performance; Throughput; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2003.816650

Filename

1232688