Multiple access protocol for an underground mobile communication system

Author

Yin, Zhong Jun ; Chung, Kah-Seng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

2217

Abstract

This paper studies the multiple access technique adopted in the MINECOM system, a versatile micro-cellular mobile communications network specifically designed for underground mining aimed at providing reliable communications for multiple channels of two-way voice, monitoring data, control signals, and eventually compressed digital video. The MINECOM multiple access protocol is a variant of a reservation MAC protocol with a slotted ALOHA packet reservation channel utilizing the TDD technique, or a TDD R-ALOHA. The performance of the MINECOM protocol is analyzed in terms of throughput and average message delay by the EPA (equilibrium point analysis) method

Keywords

data communication; data compression; delays; integrated voice/data communication; microcellular radio; mining; monitoring; multiuser channels; packet reservation multiple access; radio links; video coding; voice communication; EPA method; MINECOM system; TDD R-ALOHA; TDD technique; approximate model; average message delay; compressed digital video; control signals; equilibrium point analysis; micro-cellular mobile communications network; monitoring data; multiple access protocol; multiple channels; performance; reliable communications; reservation MAC protocol; slotted ALOHA packet reservation channel; throughput; two-way voice; underground mining; underground mobile communication system; uplink; Access protocols; Communication system control; Control systems; Media Access Protocol; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Performance analysis; Signal design; Telecommunication network reliability; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1998. GLOBECOM 1998. The Bridge to Global Integration. IEEE

Conference_Location

Sydney,NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4984-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1998.775927

Filename

775927