Title :
Packet level performance characteristics of a MAC protocol for wireless ATM LANs
Author :
Van Houdt, B. ; Blondia, C. ; Casals, O. ; Garcia, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Antwerp Univ., Belgium
Abstract :
This paper determines packet level performance measures of a MAC protocol for a wireless ATM local area network. A key characteristic of the MAC protocol is the identifier splitting algorithm with polling, a contention resolution scheme used to inform the base station about the bandwidth needs of a mobile station when no piggybacking can be used. We consider higher layer packets that are generated at the mobile station and investigate the influence of the traffic characteristics of the packet arrival process on the efficiency of the protocol and on the delay that packets experience to access the shared medium
Keywords :
access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; land mobile radio; packet radio networks; queueing theory; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; wireless LAN; MAC protocol; TDMA; bandwidth; base station; contention resolution; frequency division duplex; higher layer packets; identifier splitting algorithm with polling; local area network; mobile station; packet arrival process; packet delay; packet level performance characteristics; performance measures; protocol efficiency; queueing model; shared medium access; time division multiplexing access; traffic characteristics; wireless ATM LAN; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Delay; Electronic mail; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Switches; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, 1999. LCN '99. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lowell, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0309-8
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.1999.801991
