Title : 
Fair power-level division multiple access
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hung Hom, Hong Kong
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
5/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Power-level division multiple access (PDMA) exploits the capture effect to generalize and improve time-division multiple access (TDMA). The original PDMA scheme, however, is not fair because in every cycle one station may capture another station a greater number of times. In this letter, we propose a permutation method to assign transmission power levels and time slots to every station, so that in every cycle any two stations can capture each other the same number of times.
         
        
            Keywords : 
multi-access systems; time division multiple access; PDMA; TDMA; capture effect; fair assignment; permutation method; power-level division multiple access; time slot assignment; time-division multiple access; transmission power level assignment; Algorithms; Decoding; Protocols; Time division multiple access;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Communications Letters, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/4234.585797