A MAC protocol for ATM-satellite systems

Author

Iera, Antonio ; Molinaro, Antonella ; Marano, Salvatore ; Aloi, Gianluca

Author_Institution

DIMET, Reggio Calabria Univ., Italy

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

2875

Abstract

This paper reports a novel MAC protocol answering the need for an efficient transport of information on the MF-TDMA air interface of a satellite network adopting the ATM technology. The MAC is based on variable-rate DAMA for real-time VBR traffic coupled with a connection admission control algorithm, exploiting statistical multiplexing of VBR sources, and a pre-emptive buffer management policy. The main result is a high bandwidth exploitation as well as the QoS guarantee to each class of service

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; buffer storage; demand assigned multiple access; mobile satellite communication; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; ATM; MAC protocol; MF-TDMA; QoS guarantee; air interface; bandwidth exploitation; class of service; connection admission control; pre-emptive buffer management policy; real-time VBR traffic; satellite network; statistical multiplexing; variable-rate DAMA; Access protocols; Admission control; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Multimedia systems; Quality of service; Satellite broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999. VTC 1999 - Fall. IEEE VTS 50th

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5435-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.1999.800312

Filename

800312