Analysis of CSMA/CA protocol for wireless networking of ATM multiservice applications

Author

Callegati, F. ; Pedrelli, M. ; Raffaelli, C.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Elettronica Inf. e Sistemistica, Bologna Univ., Italy

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

29 Sep-2 Oct 1996

Firstpage

286

Abstract

The performance of the IEEE 802.11 protocol for wireless local area networks (WLAN), is analysed when applied to the case of a wideband WLAN carrying high bit rate multimedia services (such as voice, video and high speed data) that should be interconnected with a wired, ATM based, broadband network. The paper evaluates the protocol in this more advanced environment that is supposed to be the trend of local area networking in the medium term future. As far as the interface with ATM is considered, the use of cell clustering in longer radio packets is also proposed and discussed, showing that it can significantly improve the protocol performance. Overall the results obtained are very encouraging suggesting that the protocol may be considered as a starting point for the development of a wireless wideband LAN

Keywords

IEEE standards; asynchronous transfer mode; broadband networks; carrier sense multiple access; internetworking; multimedia communication; packet radio networks; performance evaluation; wireless LAN; ATM based broadband network; ATM interface; ATM multiservice applications; CSMA/CA protocol; IEEE 802.11 protocol; WLAN; cell clustering; high bit rate multimedia services; high speed data; local area networking; protocol performance; radio packets; video; voice; wideband WLAN; wireless local area networks; wireless networking; wireless wideband LAN; Bit rate; Broadband communication; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Speech analysis; Wideband; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Personal Communications, 1996. Record., 1996 5th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3300-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUPC.1996.557892

Filename

557892