Title :
A new procedure to analyze random multiaccess protocols for multimedia applications
Author :
Gutierrez, Lluís ; Sallent, Sebastià
Author_Institution :
Dept. Matematica Aplicada i Telematica, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
Multimedia traffic is carried over multi-access channels using random multi-access protocols (RMAP) to access the common channel by users´ equipment. The main goal of any RMAP is that the network is shared by all users in a fair way. RMAP must also be able to cope with the QoS that different multimedia traffic requires. Current protocols proposed for multimedia traffic are very sophisticated and difficult to analyze because they use distributed queues. The main goal of this paper is to present a common methodology to analyze multimedia RMAP. The results obtained by this procedure include the computation not only of the expected values but the distributions of the final interdeparture time and the departure burst size
Keywords :
access protocols; multi-access systems; multimedia communication; quality of service; telecommunication channels; telecommunication traffic; QoS; RMAP; departure burst size; distributed queues; interdeparture time; multi-access channels; multimedia applications; multimedia traffic; quality of service; random multi-access protocols; Access protocols; Delay; Electronic mail; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Performance analysis; Queueing analysis; Road accidents; Steady-state; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Florence
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0253-9
DOI :
10.1109/MMCS.1999.778439
