Cell discard and TDMA synchronization using FEC in wireless ATM systems

Author

Nakayama, Yuji ; Aikawa, Satoru

Author_Institution

Radio Syst. Labs., NTT Wireless Syst. Lab., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

15

Issue

1

fYear

1997

fDate

1/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

34

Abstract

The asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) employs header-error control (HEC) to protect the ATM cell header from bit error and/or avoid the misforwarding of ATM cells. However, wireless ATM systems require a more powerful forward-error correction (FEC) scheme to offer acceptable bit-error rate (BER) performance. This paper proposes the utilization of FEC, which makes it possible to discard ATM cells more reliably. Time-division multiple-access (TDMA) is very suitable for wireless ATM systems. In the TDMA scheme, synchronization is very important. This paper also proposes to combine FEC with unique word (UW) detection for improving TDMA synchronization characteristics

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; coding errors; cyclic codes; error statistics; forward error correction; radio networks; synchronisation; telecommunication networks; time division multiple access; ATM cell header; BER performance; FEC; TDMA synchronization; asynchronous transfer mode; bit error; bit error rate; cell discard; cyclic code; forward error correction; header error control; time division multiple access; unique word detection; wireless ATM systems; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bit error rate; Control systems; Error correction; Error correction codes; Forward error correction; Multimedia systems; Polynomials; Power system protection; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.553676

Filename

553676